Fitness and healthy eating are a big part of Carrie Underwood's wide range of interests, especially since the launch of her athleisure clothing line, CALIA, in 2015.

She opened up to PEOPLE in a recent interview and revealed that fitness and eating is more about being healthy than being skinny.

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Its been more about health, and being strong, and setting a good example for my kids, and working out because it makes me feel good, Underwood said. And just kind of shifting my mindset about why Im into health and fitness.

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When it comes to her diet, the longtime vegetarian thinks balance and moderation are important, and says shes not a huge fan of trendy fad diets. Underwood told PEOPLE, I dont eat meat because its kind of a conscious decision that I make, but anytime anybodys like, I dont eat carbs, Im like, Oh, but carbs are important!

Underwood eliminated beef from her diet as a teenager, and by age 21 she was a complete vegetarian. She said that no eating meat makes her body feel and function better.

But she insists that she definitely still eats carbs. I eat my carbs. Most of the time I eat more quinoa, rice, veggie carbs, but I eat my cake too,

She also talked about her workout routines. I have to make sure and work extra hard on my hamstrings and my glutes and stuff like that, because whatever Im doing, a lot of times my quads will take over, Underwood said. I dont feel like anything is super complicated. I dont do anything crazy.

Underwood said that her body recovered quickly after her first son, Isaiah, was born, but took longer after her second child.

After having my first kid,I felt like I bounced back fast. And then with Jake, it was like my body took a minute to get back to me.It was frustrating, because Im like, Why wasnt it like the first time? Underwood told PEOPLE. But Im four years older. That also helped me shift my mindset Im still working hard, wanting to be the best me possible, but cutting myself slack and just thinking, Be kind to yourself. Its amazing what we [women] do to ourselves. Were probably all our toughest critics.

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As the president of Mahindra recently discovered, the bike business is hard. Indias still the biggest market in the world for bikes, but that doesnt mean it hasnt seen a slowdown in sales. That, in turn, means that manufacturers in India have had to ask themselves what they can do to attract new ridersa problem that U.S. manufacturers have also been struggling with.

As weve seen in this country, some of those youth-courting decisions have been both questionable and cringe-worthy. Frankly, as a U.S. rider who is not a) a boomer, b) white, or c) male, Ive often been left shaking my head. I mean, Id like to think that I want what most riders want: A selection of interesting bikes that fit me well and a culture that makes me feel like I belong. Also, interesting roads. Are these things really so much to ask? Sometimes, it seems like they might be, and those are the issues our little niche needs to address.

Anyway, a new report from the Economic Times of India about Royal Enfields J1C bike development program has me cautiously optimistic, but also not a little bit skeptical. The companys stated goal with this program is to make its bikes more accessible to a younger and more female demographic. To that end, its creating lighter-weight bikes with lower seat heights. So far, thats definitely not sounding terrible. Still, I cant help but wait for the other shoe to drop and find out its not what wed hope.

According to ET, a tenth of motorcycle licenses in India are held by women, and women also account for around 7 to 8 percent of existing Enfield new bike sales. Therefore, it makes sense that the company would want what other companies want: to keep existing customers, as well as attract new ones. Making it easier for all existing riders to progress within the brand as their skills develop is also a logical move.

Enfield executives told ET that theyve been listening to feedback from customers, and think they have a better grasp on what women and younger riders want. Confusingly, the publication referred to younger riders as Gen X in its piecebut it turns out, thats simply because India has a different definition of Gen X than the West. Per the Times of India, the terms Gen X,Gen Y, and Gen Z are often used interchangeably in Indian culture to simply denote any younger generations, and arent as rigidly defined as they are here.

Weight reduction and lower seat heights sound like promising changes, but as always, the proof will be in build quality and rider reviews of the J1C bikes after theyre released. I have to say, though, that centering those practical considerations for bikes aimed at less experienced and likely shorter riders seems like a positive step. It makes a lot more sense than, say, offering a bunch of hideously bedazzled, atrociously pink gear and then wondering why more women dont buy it when you didnt even bother to ask them what they wanted in the first place.

Sources: Economic Times of India, The Times Of India

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Consuming a diet high in sugar and fat is a known risk factor for a number of health problems, including obesity and type-2 diabetes. A new study from the University of Illinois has found that consuming caffeine from coffee, tea, and other sources may help protect against some of the health consequences often resulting from poor dietary habits. Similar benefits were also associated with consuming synthetic caffeine.

The researchers behind the study fed lab rats a diet composed of 45-percent carbohydrates, 40-percent fat, and 15-percent protein. As well, these same rats were given caffeine equivalent to the amount humans would get from drinking four cups of coffee every day. The caffeine was sourced from a herbal tea called mate and from coffee; synthetic caffeine was also used.

A control group of rats were given a decaf version of mate tea, which is notable for its high level of flavonoids, phytochemicals, and amino acids. Despite those beneficial compounds, the mice given decaf mate tea and coffee didnt experience the same benefits as rats given some form of caffeine. After four weeks, the caffeinated rats gained 22-percent less body fat and 16-percent less weight despite eating the same high-fat and high-sugar diet.

The researchers note that the lean body mass in these rats differed significantly in each group. The researchers conclude that both caffeine and mate tea are potentially anti-obesity agents, helping people avoid weight gain and the metabolic conditions that can result from obesity.

The studys co-author Elvira Gonzalez de Mejia said:

Considering the findings, mate tea and caffeine can be considered anti-obesity agents. The results of this research could be scaled to humans to understand the roles of mate tea and caffeine as potential strategies to prevent overweight and obesity, as well as the subsequent metabolic disorders associated with these conditions.

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These days, there's a lot of vegans out there.

And for every vegan, there's a vegan myth.

For years, there has been an abundance of misconceptions about the diet.

Everything from 'you'll be malnourished' to 'vegans will always tell you when they're a vegan' has been spouted from the mouths of those who enjoy basking in miseducation, or those who are simply naive.

So, as Oprah once posited: what is the truth?

Are all vegans really missing out on nutrients? Are supplements enough? Is being vegan simply too difficult and nobody should bother?

According to vegans - and non-vegans alike - the most common misconception is that somebody following a vegan diet simply cannot access all the vitamins and nutrients that we need to survive.

And although we absolutely don't need a professional to tell us this - just look at all of the entirely healthy vegans there are around us - we found one anyway.

Dietician Maeve Hanan from Orla Walsh Nutrition says that although documentaries like Netflix's Game Changers make it look like everybody needs an entire team around them to be a healthy fit vegan, it's really all about making sure that you've got balance in your diet.

"What you need is a good variety of plant based foods, especially lots of different types of plant based proteins so youre getting all of the essential ammonia acids that your body needs," she says.

Another really important thing is the supplements. Anybody living in Ireland should be considering taking vitamin D around this time of year anyway - we just dont get the sunshine here - so we should be taking about 10 mcg.

"Women of childbearing age should also be considering 400 mcg of folic acid supplement. Again, thats whether youre vegan or not. The most important ones to supplement for vegans are vitamin B12, iodine, and omega 3."

Bronwyn Slater, founder of information website The Irish Vegan, says that she finds much of the confusion around nutrients in a vegan diet comes from the assumption that vegans are missing out on all of the good stuff that meat-eaters aren't.

However, a lot of the time, this simply is not the case.

"In fact, a lot of meat eaters also need to take a B12 supplement because they don't get enough from their diet," she says.

"For meat eaters, B12 comes from animals who ingest the B12 directly from the soil. Because we wash all our vegetables nowadays we remove any soil that might contain B12, hence the need for supplementation.

Another myth about veganism is that anyone who follows the diet struggles to get enough protein when, in actual fact, most people in Ireland are already getting more than enough of the stuff.

"All plants contain some protein," says Bronwyn. "Foods that are high in protein include tofu (made from soya beans), seitan (made from wheat gluten), lentils, chickpeas, beans, soya milk, nuts, and many more."

But it's not just the science that people are misled on. There also seems to be a lot of confusion around the use of the words: 'plant based' and 'vegan.'

While the word 'vegan' means a diet that avoids the use of any animal products, 'plant based' (although sometimes used as a synonym), actually means something else entirely.

Dietician Maeve says that despite what a lot of people think, there is actually "no single definition of what a plant based diet is."

"Its this really broad spectrum of anything from someone having a few meat-free meals during the week to someone who is completely vegan," she says.

"I think the flexitarian approach, where you have lots of plants in the diet, is a really healthy way of living where you dont need to exclude food groups or put a strict label on it. That works for a lot of people."

And although the label might be strict, it's also incredibly common.

Walk into any supermarket in Ireland and you'll be sure to find a selection of products actively marked as vegan friendly.Following the diet is, contrary to what many people still believe, not half as difficult as it used to be.

Sam Pearson, owner of Vegan Sandwich Co, can attest to that. Having been a vegan for three years - and a chef of vegan food for almost as long - he knows first hand the incredible increase of varied vegan options over the past few years.

"You can walk into any restaurant and any shop and find a vegan option," he says.

"What Im doing and what other vegan businesses are doing is trying to make these options as delicious as their meat and dairy counterparts."

And what about the the, ahem, joke that 'vegans will always tell you when they're vegan'? Sam says that at his stall, it's actually the opposite.

"Youll know a meat eater at the stall because theyll tell you," he says."Theyre like: Im not vegan, just so you know but this food is nice."

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Heres why Keto should be canceled. Follow Jezebels Cancel Tournament to see what ultimately gets canceled

Food is truly a mystery for the ages, which is perhaps why this year has unearthed new diets based on old ways of eating before subsequent debunking these diets as being obscenely unhealthy. Yet out this tsunami of branded wellness diets is a single conquerer, the now thankfully vanquished keto diet.

Keto is cruel and unusual punishment on the body and the tastebudsa regiment where dieters are banned from eating carbs, the best and most important food group. (If anyone thinks otherwise, we can fight about it.) Followers of the keto diet rave about how cutting carbs entirely and eating only proteins and fats result in extreme weight loss and a correctly functioning microbiome. They ignore gross and inconvenient evidence such as keto flu and funky genitals.

Nasty smelling junk should be grounds to cancel anything. But in reality, keto, like almost all of the other diet fads this year, used the concept of wellness to disguise the latest crash diet. The keto diet wasnt even intended for mass consumption or weight loss. It came about as a way to help people diagnosed with epilepsy manage their seizures through diet and medication. Its not even for every type of epilepsy patient; only a doctor familiar with a persons seizure history can prescribe the keto diet. Much of the success of the keto diet is strictly anecdotal: Its the flat tummy tea of the food pyramid. You lack a ton of nutrients by adding so much fat and eliminating important foods, wrote Caitlyn Edson, a New York-based registered dietician. Theres just not enough research on it yet for people to do it safely. Plus, carbs are delicious.

All forms of bread and noodles are the earths gift to human beings. Any diet that would seek to remove such a vital part of any meal should be globally shunned.

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Darth Vader in a scene from The Empire Strikes Back. Associated Press File Photo

In an era when it feels as though every studio release is destined to become a billion-dollar blockbuster, its a question that wont go away.

How soon is too soon to spoil a movie?

One week, one month, six months, a year how long should we wait to give other fans a chance to see a motion picture like Rise of Skywalker, the Star Wars movie that debuted on Dec. 19? How long until we can safely assume that any big plot twists from Episode IX have become common knowledge, so we can post about them on social media?

Do ordinary people and media outlets have an obligation to preserve the surprise for moviegoers who havent had a chance to see the new Star Wars flick? Is a spoiler warning all thats required? Or is it up to the individual to go on a media diet in order to make sure they remain ignorant before they see the film?

Many of us have stories from when we were kids waiting to see 1980s Empire Strikes Back and that one doofus who walked out of the theatre announcing very loudly, in front of the long line of people who were waiting to see the first Star Wars sequel, I cant believe Darth Vader is Lukes father!

Nor do these questions apply only to Star Wars. In 1999, it was considered bad form to say out loud when you guessed Bruce Willis was dead in The Sixth Sense.

I posted a spoiler a few months ago about the Orson Welles cinema classic Citizen Kane on a friends Facebook page Rosebuds the sled! and she immediately took the post down for fear it would spoil the movie for her other online friends. Citizen Kane came out 78 years ago.

London graphic novelist and Tingfest founder Diana Tamblyns answer is that its never appropriate to spoil a movie for someone.

I dont think its ever OK for someone to spoil a movie for someone else. I always ask the group Im talking to if theyve seen the movie in question. If most people havent, I shut up, if someone hasnt, I tell them to leave the room or put their hands over their ears! Tamblyn said.

I will frequently put my hands over my ears and say La, la, la I havent seen this movie, stop talking! so someone doesnt spoil something for me, she added.

Freelance theatre critic Jay Menard has a different take. He doesnt appreciate people who are militant about not spoiling movies he believes people should be considerate, but has no rule about waiting a certain amount of time.

We used to be able to gather with friends and share our feelings, experiences, and thoughts about events we enjoyed whether it was live TV or major events, he said. Now, with the rise of convenience culture, where people PVR content, or wait until they can torrent it, now society is expected to wait until people have been able to consume media at their convenience? That seems selfish.

Tamblyn goes out of her way to avoid spoilers.

I actively try to avoid any articles, reviews, interviews, etc., on any movies Im really excited about prior to viewing. I will save these articles and put them aside, then after seeing the film, Ill read them all, she said. I dont like other peoples opinions colouring my thoughts on a movie. As much as possible, I like to keep it fresh for myself.

This includes trailers: If I know Im going to see a movie, I dont need to see a trailer for it. These days they give away big plot points in the trailer and it takes away from the surprise and joy of seeing them in the film. What Hollywood says in response is that people want to know what theyre getting into before they see a film, hence trailer overexposure.

If you choose or are unable to enjoy something, then its your responsibility to avoid the societal constructs wherein spoilers may appear. Until such time as you choose to view it, Menard said. Again, its about choice. And not selfishly preventing (or worse, chastising) others who want to share an important event with friends and community. There is no burden of responsibility on people who have made an effort to enjoy an event as an appointment.

In other words, its up to the individual. If you want to remain ignorant, there are ways to do so. If you have to go on a media diet to preserve your own viewing pleasure, then thats up to you, not the rest of us, so Menard sets no time limits: You should be courteous, but you should also be allowed to share and talk about your experience. Thats part of the fun and its equally abhorrent for others to take that away just because theyve been unable to participate.

When it comes to spoiling, I am more of the Menard school of thought if you dont want to learn anything about a movie like Rise of Skywalker before you see it,what are you doing online? You will inevitably come across spoilers. Theres only one way to protect yourself.

If you value surprise, dont make any visits to cyberspace. Come to think of it, why are you reading this column?

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The role of hepatic lipoprotein metabolism in diet-induced remission of type 2 diabetes is currently unclear. Type 2 diabetes can be reversed back to normal glucose control by controlling weight as was shown in DiRECT trial. A small group of patients, however, regains the weight and re-developed Type 2 diabetes. When a person accumulates too much fat, after storage under the skin, it goes to liver and over-spills to the rest of the body including the pancreas. This overspill of fat to pancreas has been shown to cause Type 2 Diabetes, according to the researchers.

Researchers at Newcastle University have found that fat over-spills from the liver into the pancreas may trigger Type 2 diabetes.The research, led by Professor Roy Taylor at Newcastle University, UK, is published in the academic journal, Cell Metabolism.

The study involved a group of people from Tyneside who previously had Type 2 diabetes but had lost weight and successfully reversed the condition as part of the DiRECT trial, which was funded by Diabetes UK and led by Professors Roy Taylor and Mike Lean (Glasgow University).

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The majority remained non-diabetic for the rest of the two-year study, however, a small group went on to re-gain the weight and re-developed Type 2 diabetes.

Professor Roy Taylor, from the Newcastle University Institute of Translational and Clinical Research, explained what the advanced scanning techniques and blood monitoring revealed.

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He said: We saw that when a person accumulates too much fat, which should be stored under the skin, then it has to go elsewhere in the body. The amount that can be stored under the skin varies from person to person, indicating a personal fat threshold above which fat can cause mischief.

When fat cannot be safely stored under the skin, it is then stored inside the liver and over-spills to the rest of the body including the pancreas. This clogs up the pancreas, switching off the genes which direct how insulin should effectively be produced, and this causes Type 2 diabetes.

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This research by Professor Taylor confirms his Twin Cycle Hypothesis that Type 2 diabetes is caused by excess fat actually within both the liver and pancreas and especially that this process is reversible.

Body of research

This latest paper builds on previous Newcastle studies supported by Diabetes UK showing exactly why Type 2 diabetes can be reversed back to normal glucose control. Those studies led to the large DiRECT trial which showed that Primary Care staff can achieve remission of Type 2 diabetes by using a low-calorie diet with support to maintain the weight loss.

A quarter of participants achieved a staggering 15 kg or more weight loss, and of these, almost nine out of 10 people put their Type 2 diabetes into remission. After two years, more than one-third of the group had been free of diabetes and off all diabetes medication for at least two years.

In 2020, this approach to the management of short-duration Type 2 diabetes is to be piloted in the NHS in up to 5,000 people across England, and a similar programme is being rolled out in Scotland.

Professor Taylor adds: This means we can now see Type 2 diabetes as a simple condition where the individual has accumulated more fat than they can cope with.

Importantly this means that through diet and persistence, patients are able to lose the fat and potentially reverse their diabetes. The sooner this is done after diagnosis, the more likely it is that remission can be achieved.

The team are continuing work to establish what may affect an individuals personal threshold and are supporting the roll-out of the NHS Initiatives in both England and Scotland. Life Without Diabetes The definitive guide to understanding and reversing your Type 2 diabetes by Professor Roy Taylor will be published by Short Books on 26th December 2019.

For more details click on the link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cmet.2019.11.018

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Its that time of year again. Youve reveled your way through December and now youre feeling guilty about your excesses and upset that your jeans feel too snug. Its January 2020, a new day, a new year, a new you, and this timeno more junk food! Or so you promise yourself.

According to a digital poll conducted by the Insider at the end of 2018[1],nearly 50% of New Years resolutions are about dieting or healthier eating, yet the evidence shows that by the secondweek of February 80-90%[2], of these resolutions have failed.Why do we keep making well-intentioned resolutions about restricting our intake of fatty, sugary foods, and then consistently relapse?Are we stupid to continuously make such futile promises?

Sisyphean attempts to change our eating behaviors suggests that were not very good at learning. But that nod to our foolishness would be to gloss over the problems underlying why we push that rock up the dieting hill eating every January only to have it roll down on our thighs by Valentines Day. There are three main reasons for our repeated dieting failures: 1) habits, 2) the food environment, 3) our biology, and theyre all extremely hard to alter.

Firstour well-learned habits.Do you make a daily stop for a pastry or milk-shake latt on your way to work?Do you mindlessly snack at your desk?Do you automatically say yes to fries with that sandwich? In order to change our eating behavior, we first have to figure out what our bad eating habits are, which is not so easy. Then we have to break the mold on all those automatic routines.This means crushing habits from breakfast to our midnight snack, at home, work, and play. Put this in the face of the fact that a central reason why changing behaviors so often fails is that people try to change too much at once.For best success, we need to make a list and slowly tackle one bad habit at a time. This itself is a tedious task, which only adds to the burden of restricting our eating. Eating is among the greatest pleasures of existence and we have to do it fairly constantly.This means that if we make eating unpleasant we wont give up eating, well give up making it unpleasant.

Next, is our perilous food environment. Even if you dont have much money (in fact its worse if you dont have much money), unhealthy food is more accessible than fresh fruit, vegetables, and fish.Our Western eating environment offers a plethora of relatively inexpensive, high calorie, delicious options with very minimal effort involved in getting any of it.You dont even need to leave your couch except to answer the doorbell for that UberEats delivery.There is a large scholarly literature on everything from portion size, to fast food availability, to how we eat (constant snacking, eating on the run or in your car), and how much we eat (a lot), and you will find many studies demonstrating the ways in which the modern eating environment undermines our health and waistlines.But you already know that. The point is that the new normal food environment makes changing our eating patterns, portions, and passions very difficult to thwart.

Finally, there is our innate biology.We did not evolve in a landscape of Starbucks and MacDonalds.Rather, until relatively recently having enough food to eat was a rare luxury, and there are still societies where famine is a real and present danger.Because we may have to go for days, or more, without sufficient sustenance, when we encounter calorie-dense foodsthe best kinds are fatty, and carbohydrates-- the best form of easy energy, our biology dictates that we eat as much as we can so that we can survive to find the next meal.We are programmed to love fatty, high carbohydrate foods. To counteract these impulses is to work against millions of years of evolution.

Our food habits rewire our neural circuits for pleasure and reward, our food environment reinforces our food habits, and our innate biological motivations shape our enabling food environments. So, yes, we are stupid to think that intoning a promise to eat less rich, alluring food when faced with such huge obstacles will be successful.But we are not stupid to keep on trying, because each attempt teaches us about ourselves and potentially one step closer to a better relationship with food.The key is to realize that atthe heart of both our good and bad eating behaviors is the motivation to survive and experience pleasure, which is smart indeed.

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So the New Year is upon uswell almost, and as wemove into the beginning of a new decade its perhaps best to bid goodbye tothings that didnt work out for us.

Goodbyeto hunting for the perfect diet and Hi to our new bodyThe decade promised us the perfect body just by following The Atkins Diet, TheGrapefruit Diet, The Caveman Diet, The Ayurveda diet and so many more, yet allof them worked for some time, only to be replaced by the newer one .When welooked at the weighing scales and realized that the pounds came back faster than we dropped themand our perfect body was nowhere in sight, its perhaps time to drop thesediets forever and change our mindset about the perfect body and embrace ourselvesas we are-fat,thin,slim legs, chunky thighs, pear shaped bodies, tiny waists,big-boned and focus on just eating healthy and eating right. Eating healthypretty much is quite dependent on common sense dont eat French fries as a snackbut reach out for that apple-and just stop comparing yourself to anyone elsebecause you are perfect in your own way.

Goodbyeto others expectations and Hi to the actual youWhen was the last time you actually spoke your heart out to your near and dearones without sugar coating it? When was the last time you instagrammed apicture without photo shopping it?Isnt it high time we start living our lifeon our terms rather than according to what someone else wants us to be. As MarkTwain said, You wouldnt worry so much about what people think of you,if you knew how seldom they do. Its fine to be tired and not be a supermom/amazingcareer woman all the time and if you want to quit a boring 9 to 5 job and followa dream of being an entrepreneur go ahead and do it and while youre at it goahead and rewrite your life as you want it to be. Youll be amazed by so manypeople who will accept and love you for what you are the real you.

Goodbyeto Toxicity and Hi to Positivity-I keep reiterating theimportance of positivity because its something we tend to overlook. The toxicpeople in our life only corrode our happiness. Try spending some time with themand you feel deflated as though someone punctured the joy out of your life.Ive stopped buying their excuses for their grim worldview and have only onemantra for them.

Eliminatethem by the truckloads!

Goodbye to all Unhappiness and Hi to Happiness-Happiness is a state of mind and to achieve that there are so many tools like Meditation, Introspection and mindfulness. These help us to be on the path of long lasting happiness rather than a momentary joy. So use these powerful tools effectively to say hi to happiness and goodbye to unhappiness. That is exactly what the HAPPY in NEW YEAR stands for

Till next year-

HAPPY NEW YEAR and live life EmpressSize.

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LOMA LINDA, Calif. Six mornings a week, youll find Heinz Lindsor in the gym.

I do aerobics. I exercise with a ball, he says.

Whats more impressive than his workout routine is his age.

I am 80 plus, he says.

And hes not the only octogenarian in this gym located inside Loma Linda Universitys Drayson Center.

My diet is an all plant-based diet, Dr. Benjamin Lau says.

Benjamin Lau and his wife Esther walk a mile to the gym every day for their half-hour workout. They are both in their 80s.

I put a lot of emphasis on food, Esther Lau says. That's probably the most crucial, what we eat and also how active we are.

In Loma Linda, California, being able to do a one-hour aerobics class later in life isn't uncommon. Much of the fuel to stay active and healthy for the people in this city is religion.

Started to work out I got really excited, oh this is great because I feel really vibrant, I feel 40 again. Is this possible, God? Marijke Sawyer says.

Loma Linda is home to one of the largest concentrations of Seventh-day Adventists. The Christian denomination puts an emphasis on a healthy diet and exercise.

Most Adventists, like 72-year old Sawyer, dont smoke or drink alcohol.

"My body is actually the temple of God, she says. So, therefore, whatever I put in I want to keep it whole. Clearer minds, better body, better performing in my life.

Many also follow a vegetarian diet.

Lots of fruits and lots of vegetables, and we grow a lot of our vegetables, so mostly unprocessed, Esther Lau says. "I cook very simply. Basically, I dont use any oil to cook but I do eat food that's naturally high in oils, like avocados, nuts and seeds.

Jackie Tucker, 71, is a lifelong vegetarian.

My grandfather died at 60 of a heart attack, Tucker says. My father died at 73 with blood-related heart disease so I know that the exercise and a diet have made a difference.

National Geographics Dan Buettner named this community one of his five original Blue Zones," places across the globe where people are living longer and healthier lives.

Loma Linda was the only Blue Zone listed in North America.

"It becomes normal, it becomes a way of life, Sawyer says. For me not to come out and not exercise, I would be frazzled because I just feel so much better. And my age I dont feel like Im 72. I love it.

But in Loma Linda, there is no fountain of youth or magic spell to be able to work out like Lindsor later in life.

A person who is motivated, he says, he or she can do a lot of good things to maintain a good level of health.

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