Day Twenty Five: Alphabet Vitamins and Clean Living

Day Twenty Five

I learned where calling LUNCH Dinner comes from.  

Southern women call lunch DINNER.  Northerners call lunch 

LUNCH and SUPPER Dinner.  Read about this 

from the Delany Sisters.



BUT in my world my Mom called lunch DINNER.  Mixed me 

up when I grew up in a community that called Lunch LUNCH 

and Supper DINNER when at HOME my Mom called lunch 

DINNER.




After I married, I thought DINNER was a fancy supper.  A 

refined meal served by servants using fine china, crystal, 

silverware, cloth napkins, centerpiece and candles.  


My thinking was too high dollared for lil 'ole me.  I 

misunderstood.  COMPLETELY.  So I compromised and 

decided that anyone can have a candle light meal in the 

evening without servants, go ahead use nice china, etc. and 

still call it Dinner.

  

Clean Living, staying pure in heart, plenty of Vitamins, 

exercising before Breakfast, eating a good Breakfast were 

what was suggested by the Delany Sisters who lived long 

lives.  ASKED many times what their secrets were for LONG 

LIFE.  Healthy Longevity.  Snagged a few.  


I believe I can do the vitamins, exercise a little, pray, have 

milkshakes for supper, drink water that's been 

sterilized.  


NOT SURE I can take the cod liver oil with garlic.  Have to 

think on that one for awhile.  



Believe the Breakfast they ate was great:  scrambled egg, 

hard roll and piece of fruit along with a bowl of cooked 

oatmeal. 



Let me call the vitamin supplements they took THE 

ALPHABET Vitamins: vitamin A, B complex, C, D, E, 

along with zinc and tyrosine.  I looked up tyrosine and it's 

benefits.  Do you need a L in front of the tyrosine to be 

affective?  L-tyrosine.  

TYROSINE OVERVIEW INFORMATION

Tyrosine is one of the amino acids, which are the building blocks of protein. The body makes tyrosine from another amino acid called phenylalanine. Tyrosine can also be found in dairy products, meats, fish, eggs, nuts, beans, oats, and wheat.

Tyrosine is used in protein supplements to treat an inherited disorder called phenylketonuria (PKU). People who have this problem can't process phenylalanine properly, so as a result they can't make tyrosine. To meet their bodies' needs, supplemental tyrosine is given.

People take tyrosine for depression, attention deficit disorder (ADD), attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), the inability to stay awake (narcolepsy), and improving alertness following sleep deprivation. It is also used for stress, premenstrual syndrome (PMS), Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, chronic fatigue syndrome(CFS), alcohol and cocaine withdrawal, heart disease and stroke, ED (erectile dysfunction), loss of interest in sex, schizophrenia, and as a suntan agent and appetite suppressant.

Some people also apply tyrosine to the skin to reduce age-related wrinkles.

How does it work?

The body uses tyrosine to make chemical messengers that are involved in conditions involving the brain such as mental alertness.

RESEARCH SAYS:

At 105 and 103 years old, Sadie and Bessie Delany might 

very well have a few "secrets" to their healthy longevity. In 

this second of two excerpts from their new book, "The Delany 

Sisters' Book of Everyday Wisdom," the sisters share their 

nutritional and exercise regimes, and give some pointers to 

"older folks" on how to maintain personal dignity and control 

of their lives during their later years.



Bessie Delany: Folks constantly ask about the "secret" that 

has kept us alive so long. Well, that's something only the Lord 

can say! We try our best to preserve our health, and one way 

we do it is to watch what we eat and drink.

We start our day by drinking a full glass of water, followed by 

a teaspoon of cod liver oil and a whole clove of garlic. A 

whole, raw clove - that's right. Garlic is good for preventing 

colds, and it's good for your bowels. We chop the clove as 

finely as we can, then scoop it up with a spoon, and swallow it 

all at once, without chewing, to prevent odor. We wash it 

down with one glass of cold water, then one glass of hot 

water.

Then we fix our breakfast. In the past few years we've found 

that breakfast is our most important meal. It's our biggest 

meal of the day, and we eat it right after we do our exercises. 

We have a scrambled egg each, a hard roll and fruit, along 

with a bowl of oatmeal. I mean home-cooked oatmeal, not 

that instant stuff.

We have a good meal at midday.  Northern 

folks call that lunch.  We Southern gals call it dinner. 



We eat chicken or beef - although we love fish, we don't eat it 

much today. We worry about its being contaminated. 

In the evening, we make ourselves a big vanilla milk shake. 

It's not good to eat your big meal toward the end of the day.




Plenty of vitamins

Every day we take vitamin supplements: vitamin A, B complex, C, D, E, along with zinc and tyrosine. 

We vary the amount depending on how we've been feeling 

lately. For example, if I start to get a little tickle in my throat like I am going to get a cold, I take more vitamin C. 

Antioxidant vitamins are the best. We think it's best to get your vitamins naturally, from foods you eat, but supplements are a good idea.

I keep saying "we," but the truth is Sadie's the one in charge of our health. She makes me take my cod liver oil - I can't stand the nasty stuff - and eat what she tells me.

She drives me a little crazy but I guess she's doing something right! I have 103 years of living to show for it.

Sadie Delany: There's another thing I make Bessie do that she doesn't like too much, and that's exercise. You've got to exercise, not just for your heart and lungs, but to keep from stiffening up. It keeps you limber, and that's important when you get older.

We started doing yoga about 40 years ago. You don't have to get down on the floor and do yoga. You can get exercise from doing housework, gardening, all kinds of things - anything's better than sitting on your behind all day long.

Bessie: Alcohol is a little indulgence that's OK, as long as you use it in moderation. It can help you relax and that's good. But we don't go in for that store-bought stuff. Instead, we make our own with the rose petals from our garden.

Water, of course, is the most important drink, and so we're very careful about ours. Why, we'd never dream of drinking it straight from the tap. We boil it first to purify it, then when it cools down, we store it in glass jars.

That's what smart folks did in our day. Another thing we do is wash our hands the minute we walk in the house, the way Mama taught us. She was the cleanest woman alive!

Clean livin' - that's what we believe in. And hygiene's only part of it. 

We also try to stay pure of heart.




ARE YOU A SOUTHERN GIRL OR A NORTHERNER???
Guess I'm a little of both if possible.


Thanks for stopping by and reading,
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