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how to live a healthy intellectual life ?

In short my advice would be like this:

food:

  • eat 4-6 times a day to keep from getting to low in blood sugar.
  • meals containing mostly vegetables such as carrots,  spinach, celery, radishes, tomatoes, peas, lentils, beans. A way to define vegetables would be to say it is a less sugary fruit.
  • a rule would be 2 vegetables for each fruit such as banana and apple.
  • eat oily fish, Salmon, Trout, Mackerel and Herring  or vegetable oils, rapeseed, flax and hempseed oil at least 3 times a week. a mix between oil from fish and plants is best.
  • use sunflower and corn oil in cooking
  • mix the source of protein between, whey protein, egg, low fat yogurt, soy protein, lentils, tuna, chicken etc.
  • drink juice, grapes (if you can get juice containing pulp, skins, stems and seeds that is the best also called a “must” ), tropical and cranberry together with your protein shake . remember to eat some vegetables on the side.

exercise

  • at least 30 minutes of moderate to intense exercise involving large muscle groups 3 times a week. Cycling, swimming, running are good examples.
  • a quarter of an hour every day with exercises like sit-ups, push-ups etc.
  • yoga with deep breathing. allowing the breath to become really deep and slow.
  • meditation for at least 20 minutes a day
  • games such a brain age
  • teach somebody else about something. In my case it is computer science and yoga
  • write a blog or if you prefer paper write a traditional diary.
  • learn a new language
  • engage all your senses when you write or teach.

I will keep on updating this list and below you can see the information on each point in full.

So far this is a cut and paste from different sources like wired menshealth and wikipedia

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