"Check this out. I’ve always heard that either you’re an artist or you’re not. Artists are special people who can do things the rest of us could never do. And, I’m going to be perfectly honest here – I’m guilty of telling my own children the very same thing: ‘we don’t have artistic talent in our blood.” I never knew how wrong I truly was.
Dweck tells a fun story about an artist named Betty Edwards who wrote ‘Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain’. Betty explains that drawing is actually a SEEING skill, not a drawing skill. And these skills are teachable, which also means, they are learnable. And, she proves it. Betty takes people who couldn’t draw their way out of a box and teaches them to create amazing self-portraits. I don’t mean, the so-so stuff, that’s ‘okay art for someone who’s not an artist’. I mean, really cool pictures that you’d swear were from real artists. These are people who couldn’t draw a line out of a box, but Betty turned them into artists anyway. And… here’s the kicker. It only took 5 days! Now, imagine the cumulative effect of a lifetime spent building upon that foundation…"
"Udo Erasmus' Food Pyramid for Sick People -- restrict carbohydrates, use supplements, and eat PUFA (seeds, fatty fish, nuts) and greens. This is a PhD!" Rob Turner, Functional Performance Systems
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"Notice the top right corner (Supplements). Guess what else Flora Health (they make Udo's oils...) also makes? All things we either don't need (probiotics and fiber come to mind) or should be getting from our foods, the very foods he condones (minerals, vitamins, antioxidants, enzymes)."
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@functionalps #udoerasmus #udooils #carbohydrates #polyunsaturatedfats
#unsaturatedfat #pufa #nuts #seeds #fattyfish #probiotics #fiber
"Remind yourself that the past and future are ‘indifferent’ to you, and that the supreme good, and eudaimonia, can only exist within you, right now, in the present moment." Donald J. Robertson
Photograph of, Larry Scott
#larryscott #donaldjrobertson
"Polyunsaturated fats (PUFA) include all liquid vegetable oils (the fats found in most processed foods which include Canola oil, soy oil, corn oil, safflower oil, sunflower oil, fish oil, flax oil etc, with the exception of Extra Virgin Olive Oil) and the fats present in things like grains, seeds, nuts, legumes and conventional poultry. These fats are unstable to oxygen, light and heat and oxidise (spoil) easily resulting in free radical damage (inside and out). Saturated fats on the other hand, such as coconut oil and butter, are protective.
The sun isn’t actually the ‘cause’ of skin aging either, it only contributes to skin damage with overexposure and when a person has accumulated too many PUFAs in their tissue.
20 minutes of sun exposure at a time on a sunny day is probably enough (build up to this gradually and always avoid burning), however until you’ve significantly lowered your PUFA consumption and the stored PUFA in your tissue, you might be best to shield your face from full sun (ie; wear a hat). Sunlight on the rest of the body is necessary for Vitamin D synthesis." Emma Sgourakis
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“In the l960s, Hartroft and Porta gave an elegant argument for decreasing the ratio of unsaturated oil to saturated oil in the diet (and thus in the tissues). They showed that the “age pigment” is produced in proportion to the ratio of oxidants to antioxidants, multiplied by the ratio of unsaturated oils to saturated oils. More recently, a variety of studies have demonstrated that ultraviolet light induces peroxidation in unsaturated fats, but not saturated fats, and that this occurs in the skin as well as in vitro. Rabbit experiments, and studies of humans, showed that the amount of unsaturated oil in the diet strongly affects the rate at which aged, wrinkled skin develops. The unsaturated fat in the skin is a major target for the aging and carcinogenic effects of ultraviolet light” Raymond Peat, PhD
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“While it is important to avoid overexposure to ultraviolet light, the skin damage that we identify with aging is largely a product of our diet.” Raymond Peat, PhD
