Anti Aging Beautifully With Good Nutrition

Wellness

Beauty is more than just skin deep. It transcends mere appearances and is an embodiment of vitality, health, and confidence that radiates from within oneself. It's a journey where everything you eat and drink nourishes not just the body, but the very essence of your being.

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Super Foods for Aging Beautifully 

Grace O, founder of FoodTrients, has identified certain ‘superfoods’ as the path to staying beautiful and vibrant as you age 

• Vitamin A foods: carrots, tomatoes, red peppers, melon, fish, eggs 
• Vitamin C foods: sweet potatoes, red peppers, citrus fruits, strawberries, tomatoes 
• Vitamin E foods: almonds, peanut butter, pumpkin, wheat germ oil, sunflower seeds 
• Biotin foods: nuts, egg yolks, oats Selenium foods: Brazil nuts, seafood, broccoli, soybeans

 

"Choose from these food categories," Grace O says, "to get access to the complex carbohydrates, protein, and healthy fat as well as vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants that can support your beauty. With each bite, you rewrite the narrative of aging, embracing a future where beauty and wellness dance in harmonious tandem.

Ginger Hultin, FoodTrients nutritionist and dietician, elaborates further on how a wholesome diet can aid long-term beauty in a surprisingly multitude of ways. "Not only can eating well boost hair and skin quality and foster growth and resilience. It can also energize the body, setting the stage for living an active lifestyle and maintaining optimal muscle mass. The end result fuels vitality, helping you to greet each day anew with positivity and potential."

It's time to savor all the flavors of nourishment we've been talking about, paving the way for a more vibrant, age-defying you. Sample Grace O's mouth-watering, healthy anti-aging food with the Radish Salad recipe below that's perfect for summer.

Recipe

Daikon Radish Salad

This recipe is from the first cookbook by Grace O, The Age Gracefully Cookbook: Easy and Exotic Longevity Secrets from Around the World (2016) is available on Amazon. Her second cookbook (pictured above) The Age Gracefully Cookbook: The Power of Foodtrients to Promote Health and Well-Being for a Joyful and Sustainable Life, is available in paperback and for Kindle. Grace O is also the author of Anti-Aging Dishes From Around the World, available in hard cover and for Kindle.

The recipe here is an excellent example of how the ‘superfoods’ that are ingredients for aging well, can be incorporated into delicious, irresistible dishes that are easy to prepare. Radishes belong to the same family as kale and cabbage and offer some of the same disease-preventing benefits. The eggs in this bright, tangy salad provide protein and the carrots vitamin A and the tomatoes vitamins A and C. 

Ingredients

2 daikon radishes or 1 bunch red radishes, stems removed 
1 cup seasoned rice vinegar 
2 Tbs. extra-virgin olive oil 
1 tsp. minced garlic 
1 tsp. sea salt 1/4 tsp. white pepper 
2 chopped hard-boiled eggs 
6-8 sliced grape tomatoes
2 medium carrots, scrubbed and sliced into coins 

Directions 

1. Slice the radishes very thinly using a food processor or mandolin slicer. 

2. To make the dressing, mix together the rice vinegar, olive oil, garlic, salt, and pepper. Let stand and allow the flavors to blend for up to 1 hour. 

3. Toss the radishes with dressing. 

4. To assemble, arrange the sliced radishes on salad plates. Top with the chopped eggs, carrots and tomato slices, evenly divided. 

Recipe and photos reprinted with permission from The Age Gracefully Cookbook by Grace O; photo by Matthew Fried. To see the full article and more recipes, as well as learn more about Grace O, visit Foodtrients.com .

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The Garfield Movie Family Review

Movies 

by MBE Kids Writer

Danielle Adler Hassan

Mother of 2

The summer movie season kicks off a bit early when the animated adventure comedy The Garfield Movie (2024, Sony Pictures, Rated PG) opens in theaters this weekend. Read on for a candid review with my real life family's thoughts and reactions after seeing this film ahead of the big screen release.

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The Storyline, Characters and Cast

In The Garfield Movie, the lazy and grumpy indoor big orange cat Garfield (voiced by Chris Pratt) sets off on a wild adventure forcing him to face his fears of the outdoors. Along the way Garfield stumbles upon his long-lost Dad, a raggedy street cat named Vic (voiced by Samuel L. Jackson), for an unexpected father-son reunion that starts off in a really awkward way.

Before these characters (and the movie's audience) know it, Garfield and his dog friend and trusty side-kick Odie (voiced by Gregg Berger) are uprooted from all the creature comforts of home and are dragged into Daddy Vic's outlandish heist scheme. Central characters also include Garfield's human owner Jon Arbuckle (Nicholas Hoult), as well as Otto (Ving Rhames), Jinx (Hannah Waddingham), Snoop Cat (Snoop Dog), and Roland (Brett Goldstein). An eclectic slew of other characters round out the cast as the adventure unfolds.

Kids, Grownups Reactions

For this review my husband brought our two boys (ages 3 and 7) to the theater along with the kids' grandma to see The Garfield Movie. My sons were not really familiar with the Garfield comic strip, so this was actually their first introduction to the Garfield character and all his wacky friends which include others from the original comic strip as well as new characters created for the movie. 

Eventhough they are four years apart, both our sons thoroughly enjoyed this movie. Overall they loved that funny, sarcastic orange cat and all his antics and there was plenty of non-stop action and dialogue capturing their attention from the opening scene until the closing credits. The kids agreed that their favorite parts were the train ride and Garfield surprise party near the end of the film. In fact, the boys liked this so much that eversince they came home, they keep asking if they could go back to see theater to see this movie again. They ended up settling for watching Garfield on YouTube the next day.

With double storylines to entertain the adults and kids at the same time, Dad and Grandma agree that The Garfield Movie is chock full of funny moments and very kid appropriate. Based on our own family's experience, this definitely is a family friendly movie which will appeal to multiple generations. The great sound track is also worthy of note, entertaining Baby Boomer and Millennial grownups alike with songs like 1992's Wild Thing by Cheap Trick to Talk to the Animals performed by Sammy Davis, Jr. and What's New Pussy Cat performed by the great Tom Jones who at 83-years old still tours globally.

As my seven-year old son so aptly comments, "There's nothing better and more exciting than seeing a really fun kid's movie like The Garfield Movie in a big theater like we did. That's why I love going to the movies."

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The Garfield Backstory

The movie is based on the Garfield cartoon strip created by Jim Davis which went into national syndication in 1978. Set in the creator's hometown of Muncie, Indiana, as of 2015 Garfield was syndicated in an estimated 2,100 newspapers and journals in 80 countries. In fact, the beloved cartoon still holds the Guinness World Record for the most syndicated comic strip in the world and is still read today by about 200 million people.

About The Garfield Movie

Learn more about The Garfield Movie from Sony Pictures by checking out the official movie trailer and by following @garfieldmovie on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. 

Babes Movie Review

Movies

by MBE Editor in Chief

Janis Brett Elspas

Mom of 4 and New Grandma

Funny and relatable to any woman who has ever been a new mother. That doesn't even begin to describe the intensity of motherhood- and female friendship-centric vibes displayed in the indie feature film BABES from NEON which premiered at SXSW Film and TV Festival 2024. Following a limited run in select theaters in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boston, and Austin, the comedy heads to the big screens opening in theaters nationwide on May 24.

Thanks to NEON for providing advance viewing access for this review

Set against the backdrop of New York, BABES, which is literally a labor of love, centers around the deeply committed friendship between childhood best friends Eden (Ilana Glazer, who also co-wrote) and Dawn (Michelle Buteau, Survival of the Thickest on Netflix). 

The Storyline

Opening with their annual tradition of going to see a movie together, these besties couldn't be in more different stages of life. While Dawn is an experienced, married mom currently very pregnant with another baby, Eden is her single, wannabe pregnant friend and sidekick. 

The hilarity that ensues as these BABES besties laugh and cry their way through a mish mash of pregnancy, labor pains and baby-making, while still trying to keep their best friendship on course. From start to finish, the on screen dialogue and comedic action plays like a Laurel and Hardy episode with Dawn's larger than life personality and booming voice playing against the somewhat softer-spoken, clueless about pregnancy and smaller-in-stature Eden. 

When the tables (and friend cheering squad) are turned and Eden discovers she's pregnant after a one-night stand and contemplates becoming a parent, their bonds of friendship are strained and challenged in ways neither of them ever expected. 

As movie viewers most of the guys, both single and married, probably won't "get it." But, women -- especially those of us having been there and done that and having experienced the trials and tribulations of actually being pregnant and giving birth -- will laugh at our own dramatic baby birthing memories knowingly understanding everything going on as the plot moves forward in this chick flick. 

While you reminiscence about your own pregnancy experiences -- the good, the bad, and the just plain hilarious -- get ready to laugh pretty much non-stop through this movie's many outrageously silly and often graphic scenarios. Scenes you really have to see for yourself to fully appreciate. And definitely bring along your best mom friend so the two of you can escape caring for the kids (whom you've responsibly left in someone else's care) and start laughing your heads off for a few hours.

About the Movie

BABES (2024, Rated-R, NEON ), stars Ilana Glazer and Michelle Buteau (pictured above), was co-written by Glazer and Josh Rabinowitz with Pamela Adlon directing. Watch the official movie trailer movie trailer and learn more from NEON.