Rainbow
This yellow fruit is synonymous with getting your potassium (K).
What is the banana?
4 glasses a day, not 8, is all most of us need.
What is water?
True or False? Centenarians in the Blue Zones have plants as the primary component of their diet.
What is true?
Local produce, it's own tractor trailer, and Berkshire family owned, this grocery store in Pittsfield and Great Barrington sets the bar with the highest quality produce and meats.
What is 'Guido's'?
Regular movement and activity while you age is critical to maintaining this tissue as you age.
What is muscle?
What are blueberries?
Kombucha is the new trend of these foods, but high fiber diets, think beans, have always been the best way to promote the bacteria in your gut.
What are probiotics?
A product of grapes, Mediterranean lifestyles include this drink, in moderation, regularly.
What is wine?
In Lee, this dairy farm full of Jersey cows, produces milk with more protein and calcium than most other cows.
What is High Lawn Farm?
Often a primary protein source for the Ovo-Lacto-Vegetarian as it is very lean, complete and can be cholesterol free without the middle.
What are eggs (whites)?
This green superfood leaf is so poplular it even has it's own t shirt.
What is kale?
This macronutrient is plentiful in meats and dairy. Buying it in powders or some special formulated bar is not really enhancing our health, it is just candy in disguise.
What is protein?
Although eaten by people in the Blue Zones, it is only eaten in small amounts and is not the primary source of their calories.
What is meat?
Just over the border in NY, this farm taps 100s of acres (in both NY and MA) to collect maple sap. They also put on a very tasty breakfast each weekend.
What is Ioka Farm?
Per gram, which contains more calories.... Fats or Carbohydrates?
What are Fats?
Although this berry's color is not a part of the rainbow it is a blockbuster of antioxidants.
What are blackberries?
Walking 1 mile and running 1 mile burn approximately this same number of calories for a human.
What is 100 kcals?
Low rates of these diseases is one of the reasons why people eating a Mediterranean diet tend to live longer than other populations. Name one.
What is heart disease?
What is diabetes?
What is cancer?
On May 18th, 2023 a late spring freeze in the Berkshires, with overnight temperatures in the 20s F, caused enough damage that it led to a significant reduction in this fall crop.
What are apples?
Muscles are characterized in 2 categories:
Slow Twitch and Fast Twitch.
Select the twitch that gets bigger (hypertrophy) when you use it during strength training
What is 'Fast Twitch'? Type II muscle fiber
A magnificent source of lycopene (a wondrous anti oxidant that is associated with lower rates of prostate cancer, colon cancer, and more) and a prolific producer in your backyard garden.
What are tomatoes?
Yes, some vitamins are tied to stronger bones, clotting and vision but these 4 vitamins can actually be overconsumed and become high enough in the body to become toxic. Name one.
What are Vitamin A, D, E, K?
Fat Soluble vitamins (stored in fat)
There are 2 islands included in the list of Blue Zones. Please name 1 of the countries that the islands are a part of.
What is Greece? Ikaria
What is Japan? Okinawa
A block of cheese, weighing over a 1/2 ton, was gifted to Thomas Jefferson after winning the Presidency from John Leland from this town.
What is Cheshire, MA?
This compound, if consumed over enough weeks, builds up in the muscle and can help with short bursts of energy output during muscle training.
What is creatine?