Greetings All!

First, I offer Ingest More Red – Later Dead as a call to action for anti-inflammatory sustenance.

Now – that color Red explicitly excludes Red Dye #40. I see no reason to add Red dye #40 to Doritos ^TM – do you? In fact, I see nil reasons to munch on Doritos^TM at all/ as I’m more than sorta adverse to ultra-processed foods that inflame us and shorten too many lives.

Red in these clean, anti-inflammatory fruits and vegetables is all-natural!

International Yoga Day 2025

Note the red mufti for these happy folks 🙂

Clicck on over to this September 2024 Healthline Article that offers, “84% of American adults feel the impact of prolonged stress.”  You can also get a dozen reminders of why?! Yoga routines are so good for you and me – like stress management. So, enjoy a Cobra pose (this yogi is more advanced than am I!)

or a gentle and soothing Upward Dog asana like this lady:

• Strengthen your spine and wait…wait – improve your natural immunity! Let things go Aum (oom) after spell-checking  Bhujangasana.

620 to 750

Let’s get down to our Red wavelength (red light) Specials – – – Our heading refers to the visible Red wavelengths in nanometers.

While we do, reflect on what others have known for centuries –

Tap the warmth and healing of sunlight (yet watch those harmful UV times!)

• My sainted Mum advised that early and later-in-day sunlight and Vermont honey were therapies to use and remember!

Healing colors in our natural and man-made environments – look right and feel right with red hues aand tones.

As my healthitude journey progresses, my internal sense and response system is more attuned to colors of nature. our birds and bees, flowers and trees in our season of change. For my mates and acquaintances in our Southern hemisphere, all these thoughts for six more months :-). 

Can we combine seasonal change in color to rainbows as healthitude themes? Let’s find out. 

If you you haven’t sensed my written and spoken emphases on Vitamin P for plants and ROYGIBV rainbow nutrients – that is my bad. I’m hoping to get the good word to your inbox and attention. 

Aha

My savvy acupressurist, a boomer gent like myself, has attuned me to Natural practices used for centuries. Practices that can aid the flow of my Qi (chee) or vital force, and work on my yang /ying balance for harmony and homeostasis. What is a fave color for him? Yup – Red.

Would you hazard to guess which hue is in traditional Chinese medicines heart-healthy? Hit your Jeopardy game buzzer first with your question: “What is red?” You may win a healthy prize to be named later. 

 Now, red-hued nutrients are only part of my natural Vitamin P and rainbow arguments to feed your head and bodily systems. Yet Red is the first color in our rainbow mnemonic ROYGIBV so let’s start with the letter capital R.

Might you be intrigued by the color that is linked to “the Fire element, which governs the Heart, Small Intestine, Pericardium, and San Jiao meridians. It is a stimulating color that can invigorate and energize.”

Any chance that you want better blood circulation, boosted energy levels, or intend to address conditions related to your ticker? I am a renewed component of both Seeing Red and Ingesting non-dyed Red nutrients like these.

• Red Tea (sans caffeine by the way.)
• Red Yeast Rice (can you guess what an ingredient in synthetic statins is?)
• Red Tomatoes (gents – the wonderful anti-oxidant lycopene in a tomato is uber-good for one’s prostate gland health). Caught me. A Tomato is classified as a fruit, and other colored tomato colors have plenty of anti-oxidants too!
• Beets & Beetroot (Check out my other writings about Doctor Nitric Oxide or Dr. NO)
• Pomegranates (and how about the healthy fiber!)
• Cranberries (non-sugar-added, please.)

Red Light Therapies

Whether we chat about infrared saunas, or therapeutic joint wraps with heat vibration, and light features, the waves of red light and near-redlight are well documented for healthy recovery therapies. Another big word to dazzle your healthy friends – – – Photobiomodulation. Let’s give a big shout for Endre Mester, who impacted our world in different ways that his Hungarian countrymates – Harry Houdini and Erno Rubik. As an editorial note, some folks think that Nikola Tesla was a Hungarian. I believe he came to the USA from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, yet he was Serbian by birth. Enough of the history of notables.

Yet, in closing – please think about historical perspectives of “good” Reds for health and “Eat the Rainbow” colors at least 6 times daily.

Stay well past forty,

DF

Postscript: Can I hear an Amen? Let’s celebrate America’s cessation of using artificial red dye 40 in our processed and ultra-processed foods. Why do we feel we need to artificially dye our sustenance? Oh that is America’s deadly way.. Okay that is my intended overstatement. Whether we process and consume less artificiality is an issue I will love to pursue with you

The linkage of Red dye 40 to allergies and migraine headaches is pretty solid. And I certainly wouldn’t discount artificial ingredients’ propensity for gut dysfunction. Shucks, Adam ate an apple, not a Cheetoh ^TM!

Consuming Doritos^TM and Twizzlers^TM isn’t a healthy practice to begin with. Adding consensual dysfunction of more artificial stuff to our microbiome isn’t a brainy practice. America – the consensual or Darwinian Inflammation Nation! Oh my!