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Majora’s Mask 20th Anniversary: Changing The Future – The Young Folks
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Prelude The Legend of Zelda Majoras Mask Nintendo
In replaying Majoras Mask for its 20th anniversary, I wanted to make this retrospective into something more than just Hey, Zelda fans, remember this game that we talk about all the time? Its 20 years old now! In doing so, I was trying to find new subtexts, and reasons to continue picking it apart, quickly realizing that this particular Zelda title has reflected so much of what the players want to see in it over the years, but not very often considered the people behind the games code. Weve spent years dissecting its themes, but we often forget how it may reflect its two lead directors: Eiji Aonuma and Yoshiaki Koizumi. For the countless articles on Majoras Mask out there that dig into its motifs, story beats, characters, color pallets, and remake changes, there is a deep, human connection to the player coming from this game more than any other first-party Nintendo title. When we consider this games directors, we see their ambitions to try something new and having the courage to make it weird. As a result, this piece has taken the form of observing their influences on the final product and seeing how their drive for staying creative made one of the most ambitious and experimental action RPGs of its era, and where it got them today.
Firstly, I think its important to address the work of the late Satoru Iwata, the iconic president of Nintendo with a heart of gold who tragically passed in 2015. He was a man far ahead of his time, but in my research for this piece, I have developed a new layer of love for his timeless Iwata Asks interviews. For a company as elusive and secretive as Nintendo, Iwata was always trying to pull the curtain back to let fans in on their conversations. If you didnt follow them as they were being published in the early 2010s, I hope you seek them out to read about your favorite games, because I believe they create a beautiful capsule of the legacy in these last 20 years of Nintendo. I think itd be nice to know the people who make the games we love a little better, and see how pieces of their souls find their way into this software that we connect with, especially in something as inherently spiritual as Zelda. So thats what this article is about, and it wouldnt exist the way it does if not for the incredible depth of resources at DidYouKnowGaming. Their work of archiving articles and interviews across the internet on beloved games in an accessible way for people to start making their own findings is an immeasurable resource in an era where retaining media literacy is an important thing to retain in gaming culture.
The flow of time is always cruel Its speed seems different for each person, but no one can change it A thing that doesnt change with time is a memory of younger days
Humans are infinitely obsessed with time. Obsessed with optimizing it, remembering it, and tracking how much of it weve lost. Looking back and forward, our minds become lost in a spiral of what has become or what could be, whilst our bodies stay grafted to the present. Some spend most of their lives in this hypnotic state. Time is the only thing truly out of a persons control. Even if our emotional states, proficiencies, and relationships cause our experience of it to ebb and flow, time marches on despite us.
This is the curse of having a childhood with The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time at your side. The Nintendo 64 gave players one of the most revolutionary experiences in a 3D video game, and echoes of its final product can still be seen in almost every 3D action RPG today. Ocarina of Time is still lauded by many as the greatest game of all time. The semantics of this could be argued for its blueprinting the direction of the industry, its ubiquitous fantasy adventure, or our rose-tinted glasses, but its shadow is undoubtedly large. When Eiji Aonuma was asked to make a follow up to one of the most successful games of the 1990s, maybe ever, he gambled away his time to get it done in order to stoke the fires of creativity. At the time, a direct sequel to a Zelda game was unheard of, but he and the Zelda team were brave enough to give it a try, albeit with pressure to turn some quick extra profit with the success of Ocarina.
From a fans perspective, its easy to lose sight of the fact that the greatest enjoyment of Majoras Mask comes from experiencing Ocarinas legendary adventure first. Its jarring nature is made only more complex when gameplay, visuals, songs, and details are stripped from Ocarinas legend and distorted into something completely new. Majoras Mask, compared to its predecessor, was born of a need for simplicity, efficiency, and strong time management. When discussing the original game upon the release of 2015s The Legend of Zelda Majoras Mask 3D, a remake for the Nintendo 3DS, Aonuma considered Majoras original version a literal challenge to returning and devoted players, especially in regards to the lack of tutorials for the basics of platforming, puzzles, and combat, thrusting players into the new scenario.
Iwata: We never worked on a remake for Majoras Mask until now, so we did go in thinking that the reactions would be somewhat positive. But to be honest, the reactions we received were much stronger than we had anticipated. Why do you think that was the case?
Aonuma: I think thats because Majoras Mask is the kind of game that presents players with a challenge.
Iwata: What? Its a challenge to our customers? (laughs)
Aonuma: When we talked about The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time in a previous Iwata Asks, we talked about hospitality but Majoras Mask isnt like that. Its all a challenge to our players. Its like were saying to them can you clear this?
Iwata: It shifted from hospitality to a challenge.
Aonuma: It was something like until then you were welcomed with open arms being invited to come in, and now youre being told at the door to go home if you dont have what it takes! (laughs)
Iwata: That might be true. When I played the game when it came out, it was like the game itself was screaming out to me, questioning me whether I had the dedication to play forward.
Aonuma: Thats because we didnt put in any kind of elements where we show people how to play this game. The game was made for those who have played Ocarina of Time, so I felt like there wasnt a need for step-by-step instructions.
Iwata: It was like clear it if you can.
Aonuma: So those who have played it still strongly remember how the game felt like it was a challenge
Iwata Asks Majoras Mask 3D 2. From Hospitality to a Challenge 2015
For the folks who never played Ocarina of Time, Link was a child in the land of Hyrule, blessed with great purpose and guided by a fairy to help Princess Zelda save the kingdom from the lord of evil by collecting spiritual relics and taking a weapon that would transport him seven years into the future to conquer Ganon. When his long coming of age tale was completed, Zelda played one last song on the Ocarina of Time to send Link back to his past so he could regain his lost childhood. However, he would live this life cursed with the consciousness of an adult war hero. His companion fairy Navi, a symbol of that youth he carried with him, leaves in the final shots of the game.
Majoras Mask dares to ask what happens after this. What happens when a child suddenly thrown into being a time-traveling hero of the goddesses and is thrust back into his old life? Links path in this game sees him resisting that flow, as he searches for Navi across unknown worlds to recapture the friend who was alongside him as he literally and emotionally grew up. Its deep in the woods where he is attacked by Skull Kid wearing the evil Majoras Mask, after which his horse, his strength, and his weapons are stolen, and he is cursed into a childish Deku Scrub. When Link explores the world of Termina on the other side of the woods, he encounters a town preparing for a Carnival of Time, and a foreboding apocalyptic moon hanging overhead that will collide with the earth in three days. There is a distinct contrast to his heroics in Ocarina when addressed by inhabitants of Clock Town, as though he is a kid with no understanding of how dire the state of the world is. When Link regains his human form, the very song Zelda used to send him back to his past becomes the games primary mechanic to save and reset the clock to 72 hours before the moon crashes down. These townspeople, most of whom are familiar faces from his past journey in Hyrule, begin their routine once again, none the wiser. Their set paths are reset and, save for the masks that Link collects as mementos of new friendships, there is no evidence that Link had ever helped them.
Just like much of the games music, townsfolk, collectibles, and items, even the masks originated from Ocarina of Time, but much like all the other things carried over, their purpose and power are distorted into something strange. With them followed the Happy Mask Salesman: a foolish yet foreboding harbinger who begs Link to complete his quest in recovering the haunted Majoras Mask. Aonuma has addressed the masks being carried over from Ocarina to Majora and evolving as a natural necessity with their limitations.
Aonuma: As a basis of Zelda games, youre able to use items to do all sorts of different things, and we felt it would be a lot of fun if Link would acquire all these abilities by putting on these different masks. We felt that would expand the gameplay. So we made the game so Link could transform into Deku Link to fly in the air, Goron Link to roll across the land, and Zora Link so that he could swim underwater. We also gave each of them a storyline.
Iwata Asks Majoras Mask 3D 2. From Hospitality to a Challenge 2015
Whenever there is a meeting, a parting is sure to follow. However, that parting need not last forever Whether a parting be forever or merely for a short time That is up to you.
Three of the games masks are essential transformation totems. Through them, Link embodies the forms of characters who have gone beyond the land of the living. He takes on the form of the Deku Butlers Son, the Gorons war hero Darmani and the Zora bands lead guitarist Mikau. All three stories filled with themes of regret for what they havent been able to do for the people they care about, and on their graves are instructions, leaving behind simple tutorials for players to control their forms through gameplay. Reminiscing the development of Ocarina of Time after spending even more time as a producer on the two games remakes than their original Nintendo 64 versions, Aonuma notes regrets of his own as a designer:
Aonuma: there was a sense of unfulfillment among the staff, where a lot of us wanted to do things differently with certain elements from Ocarina of Time, and also wanting to do things they werent able to before. If we gathered all new staff to work on it, it would have been impossible to make it in only one year.
Iwata: You were fueled by your regrets of what you made but werent able to fully use to fruition. Because you were fueled by it, you were able to put on a bunch of new ideas on top of the Three-Days System and they all fit together nicely. Thats why you were able to make something with so much content in only a year.
Aonuma: I suppose so. AlsoI was younger back then.
Iwata Asks Majoras Mask 3D 2. From Hospitality to a Challenge 2015
People have spent years deconstructing the themes of Majoras story content, but its purpose was to make a new Zelda adventure using all the years of hard work from creating the journey before. While Zelda is known for its many dungeons, Majora only has four. However, the side quests and mini-dungeons before and after them are so complex and rich with character and atmosphere, and all with a distinct style of level design of their own that made exceptional use of 3D space, that their relationship with the temples in Ocarina feels like an evolutionary one. Additionally, the scenarios in Clown Town and its surrounding regions feel like dungeon gauntlets of their own, despite mostly being fetch quests. Combined with four temples that make a step beyond A Link to the Past with a Z-axis, and creative use of the space to build a weaving complexity to their labyrinthian layouts, this title would give Zelda its greatest content density yet. While it didnt sell like its predecessor, it made the most of what the Nintendo 64 was capable of, and has become a cult classic ever since; the black sheep of the Zelda franchise.
When asked about it while consulting the 3DS remake of Majoras Mask, Zeldas director and producer Eiji Aonuma treated the game from 2000 as a frightful memory from much younger days. When giving the remaster team, Grezzo, notes on the work to be done, he would remark on his past choices.
At the time, I think there was something wrong with me I knew I didnt want to open the lid from the get-go, and it turned out that my instincts were correct.
Iwata Asks Majoras Mask 3D 3. The What In The World List
This is typical of a creative mind looking back at work over a decade old, and yet, its easy to forget the circumstances under which The Legend of Zelda: Majoras Mask was created, and its a miracle that the game exists as it does. Naturally, a player can see the rough edges from such a limited production time in some of the games choices, such as backtracking, repeated tasks for different scenarios, and egregiously using the same Wizrobe mini-boss four times throughout the game. If anything, these faults should make it clear how incredible it is that the best things in the game were made under such limiting circumstances.
It was the terrifying first step Aonuma and his peers would make to use Shigeru Miyamotos baby to transform it into something of their own with it. Twenty years later, that risk of sticking to their instincts still holds for fans and has seen wild success in both their careers in the years following the moody little Zelda sequel.
In 2020, we take for granted that video games evoke themes beyond the routine of players reflexively tapping buttons. Once upon a time, it was a marvel to simply see 3-D games like Super Mario 64. So many things that weve come to take for granted in modern video games had been established rapidly over a small amount of time in the late 1990s. When games took their first steps into 3-D, they were at first mere expansions on the design fundamentals of 2-D games with an added axis. It was games like Carmack and Romeros Doom and Miyamotos experimenting with the Super FX chip and StarFox on SNES that would lay the groundwork for 3-D perspectives as a fundamental component of traversing labyrinthian level design and combat navigation well before the Nintendo 64 and the PlayStation ever hit the market. This is essential to clarify because its often easy to forget how revolutionary it felt to play The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Eiji Aonumas first project under a directorial position.
When compared to modern action-adventure RPGs, Ocarina hasnt aged the greatest. However, the first 3-D Zelda adventure brought with it a substantial upgrade to the world and dungeon layouts blueprinted by A Link to The Past in 1991. Ocarina of Time provided just as many rich and densely populated open spaces to explore as it did tight corridors with obstacles. Although the dungeons often reflected ALttPs map layout, awareness puzzles, switch and block puzzles, and similarly moving enemy varieties, exploring all these components on a Z-axis brought new life to their usefulness. Combined with this depth was a mechanic just for navigating combat in these new spaces, Z Targeting, what we now fundamentally understand as a lock-on system. It was used for battle engagement, turning the slashing your sword into a rhythmic bout with enemies, an idea brought on board by Super Mario 64s Assistant Director, Yoshiaki Koizumi. He revealed in a 2011 Iwata Asks interview that the concept came one summer from seeing a circular battle choreography in a ninja and samurai showdown at Toei Kyoto Studio Park. This ended up setting the standard for the majority of action-based gameplay to this day and demonstrated the innovative skills of Koizumi and Nintendos staff as they began reworking their franchises and wild new ideas into 3-D.
I was a designer, so I didnt want to use such a simple marker. I wanted to make something else, so I came up with a fairy. After all, it was The Legend of Zelda.
Yoshiaki Koizumi, 2011 Iwata Asks 4 Where The Name Navi Comes From
The sometimes overlooked Master Quest expansion disc for the Nintendo 64DD was released as a GameCube port for Wind Waker pre-orders in the west and was an important stepping stone following the explosive success of Ocarina of Time. With that release came a completely redesigned dungeon layout to provide more of a puzzling and combative challenge; an immense paradigm shift for players who knew the games dungeon layout. Master Quest often asks players to rethink how to solve puzzles entirely, using all the same room layouts and item acquisitions but with a higher density of foes, alternate paths, and unique physics not often asked of people in the base game. Eiji Aonuma, who had his first directorial experience alongside Miyamoto on Ocarina of Time, wanted to force the series staple to evolve.
The Master Quest expansion paved the way for Zelda Teams next task. Fans often recall the story of Ocarina of Time Second Quest, or Zelda Gaiden, and how that turned into an entirely new game in Majora based on an argument between series pioneer Shigeru Miyamoto and Aonuma, who would be tasked with directing alone this time around. For years, even Iwata didnt know of this origin story, but this infamous gamble of a deadline to make an entirely new Zelda title would work its way into the games core mechanic and shaped how iterative game design would be seen forever: The game would be a standalone release, using the assets, engine and audiovisual leftover from Ocarina, and they had one year to do it.
The Nintendo 64 marked the beginning of the company no longer having complete domination over the industry as Sega was still in the race, Sony was about to launch its hotly anticipated PlayStation 2, and Microsoft was entering the ring to release the Xbox. This second Zelda for the Nintendo 64 had a lot riding on it now that Ocarina had placed Zelda firmly as a top priority for Nintendo, and as Satoru Iwata was moving up the ranks to the role of president, Miyamoto would also be taking a step back directly designing games for the first time in his beloved fantasy franchise. Aonuma and Koizumi had a lot of pressure on them but shared enough experience between themselves and the rest of the Zelda Team to get Majora completed on time. The task would force Aonuma to work closely with the team he already had on the previous title to get the work done efficiently, but that still carried great weight, even in his dreams.
Aonuma: I had a dream about it.
Iwata: What kind of a dream was it?
Aonuma: It was a dream about being chased by a Deku.
Iwata: Oh, a dream where you were being chased around? (laughs)
Aonuma: I was thinking about an event for the Deku, and have been trying to figure out what to do with it. I thought of it at home, and Dekus appeared in my dream. I woke up screaming! I went to work the next day and thats when (Takumi) Kawagoe-san [Cinematics Designer] told me that he finished making a movie for the Dekus, so I had him show it to me.and that movie was exactly like my dream!
Iwata: (laughs)
Aonuma: I even told him how do you know my dream? (laughs) Thats how put up against the edge I was back then.
Iwata: Perhaps you were possessed by something.
Aonuma: Possibly.
Iwata Asks Majoras Mask 3D 2. From Hospitality to a Challenge
Aonuma, who was new to video games when hired by Nintendo in the late 1980s had researched different genres and found himself engaging with text-based adventures and puzzle games early in his career. So it came as no surprise that his work on Ocarina under Myamotos direction would result in some of the most story-driven games to date, and the most iconic RPG dungeons in gaming history, particularly and perhaps most notoriously, the Water Temple. Therefore, while Master Quest is a fascinating experiment, it made sense that he would want to stretch the boundaries of what they could do with Zelda. Thankfully, after a plea for help, Aonuma found a co-director in Yoshiaki Koizumi, the story architect of A Link to the Past, Assistant Director on Super Mario 64, and one of those innovators of Z-Targeting in Ocarina. This pairing was pivotal because these two creators were operating in a wildly uncertain era of Nintendos history, and the sands of time were shifting around them when the industry and the company were changing.
Aonuma: Even when I was making The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, I was still designing different kinds of demo movies and was working on the fieldwork at the end. In the next work, The Legend of Zelda: Majoras Mask, I was going to be in charge of designing the dungeons, but somehow, I became the director. I felt anxious about being the only director, so I called in Yoshiaki Koizumi, who was the 3D director for Ocarina When I asked him to join us, he said, Id go only if you let me do whatever I want to do. And the result was the Three-Day System.
The unique design and directing styles of these two creators would come to fruition during Majoras production; Aonumas efforts and passions would result in four of the franchises most puzzling and thematically unique dungeons to date for the series. Koizumi, on the other hand, focused on the design of the layout, characters, and quests inside of Clock Town: the hub at the center of the games map. These innovations came after coming up with the mechanic to build a restrictive time loop as a core function of the game; an idea that came to him after seeing the film Run Lola Run from 1998, and spun from his attempt at building a Cops and Robbers concept with interweaving schedule mechanics. This became the Three-Day Cycle, along with tracking the people of Termina in the Bombers Notebook, would take the puzzle fundamentals of Zeldas dungeons, and inject them into conversational text quests which weaved simultaneously with the games larger narrative.
Do you want to play with me? OK, lets play good guys against bad guys Ill be the good guy, and you be the bad guy, and when youre the bad guy, you just run.
Time loops worked to Aonuma and Koizumis advantage when making Majora in such a small amount of time. Game designers program spaces with selectively few characters, music, weather conditions, paths, and dialogue, in a way that is limiting what the player can experience while keeping those limits invisible to the player. Majoras Mask manages to use those limitations to its advantage. While Terminas map was significantly smaller than Ocarinas Hyrule, its regions would have a variety of states depending on when the player arrives or if its in a poisoned or restored state. Additionally, the characters behaviors change based on their schedule. The result is a lived-in quality for a lean, richly populated environment, incentivizing players to do every side quest they can manage to reap the rewards in the form of masks, tools, and pieces of heart.
The game functions uniquely by having characters with a finite routine, and are expected to do so as the players experience the same three days over and over again in their task to stop Skull Kid from crashing the moon down upon them. On the first day, people mind their own business about town. On the second day, they begin to grow dreadful, angry, and divided as the moon lurches closer to the earth. On the third day, people flee, hide, become fearful, regretful, or mourning events that had no savior. Unless Link interferes in time, they meet their demise and the clock resets.
Thanks to his Ocarina, Link has the power to turn back time in the game, but it comes at a cost. Majoras Mask, whether intentionally or accidentally, deconstructs the heroism of Link. He begins the game clinging to his past after hes been through hell and back to defeat Ganon, searching for his childhood companion, Navi. He instead meets a fairy who is the opposite of her in Tattle, who is brash, stubborn, and a little nihilistic. However, their goals are similar as she is separated from her dear brother Tale. Stripped of his humanity and locked in a strange nexus of the universe, Link is surrounded by familiar circumstances, faces, and goals, but all with a nightmarish quality cycling itself in a veil of dream logic.
With only three days to save everyone from a brutal end and a garish moon constantly threatening to obliterate the world, Link is forced to run around doing errands and getting to know characters in Clock Town and Termina. Sometimes the tasks are big, like restoring a poisoned swamp or saving a mountain from an eternal winter, but others are as simple as reuniting a married couple, listening to a long story, or passing on a dancers dream to a new generation. Link is a conduit for the people who are suffering a loss or are close to death and regretting things in their lives. Even if he needs to reset the clock and restore everyone to their miserable state on the first day, he carries totems signifying their memory in the form of collectible masks.
By reusing characters, items, music, and sounds, with a purposefully restrictive mechanic, Majoras Mask shows a dense complexity with a meaningful, thematic purpose to every side quest, and many of them come with interlinked consequences over the three days. As a result, the themes of selfless heroism and grief routinely find a way of growing beyond what the characters say, and change is made out of what the player does to catalyze the characters routine. As a result, the people you see on screen become more than NPCs and are suddenly characters playing their role in the story, and the items you collect suddenly have more meaning.
A key example of this is best demonstrated in a secondary character, a young red-haired woman named Anju. When you meet her in Ocarina of Time, she stands beside a chicken pen in a small village and asks you to gather her Cuccos for her. When you return the chickens, she gifts you a bottle, and then thats it, her role is fulfilled.
When you meet her doppelganger in Majoras Mask, however, she is the clerk of a hotel. She is worried about her fiance who has gone missing three days before their wedding and Link can follow her, discovering her relationship with her mother and other patrons and is sometimes rewarded for doing so. Alternatively, Link can knowingly manipulate events he knows will happen to learn more about her, and when he does, the routines of many people will be disrupted as a result. This weaving complexity combines both the charming writing and puzzle-solving of Aonumas designs and Koizumis unconventional event design into a marriage of sorts. The Anji and Kafei quest in particular ends as they reunite at the eleventh hour while the moon falls and gift a mask to Link as their witness in matrimony. Aonuma once recalled them having particular anxiety over a Taepodong missile crisis coming from North Korea:
Aonuma: We were attending a wedding of a staff member and were talking with Koizumi and the others: Come to think of it, its somewhat strange to come to a wedding in a situation when missiles may fall down today. The discussion progressed into noting how it would also fit the setting of a falling moon and whether to do a wedding in the game. Now that I think of it, no matter where we go, we always talk about work (laughs). However, I didnt mind it at the time!
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Aonuma would reminisce much later in an interview on Majoras Mask as his favorite game in the franchise, in large part due to his love for the Couples Mask quest alone.
The scene was based on my generations perception of marriage but was meant to be solved at the end to make the players feel dramatic. So the waiting process was put in intentionally. We dragged [it out] till the very end.
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Game designers often strive for players empathizing with main characters and NPCs are the afterthought, and yet Majoras Masks secondary characters drive the heart of the story tangential to Links quest. The rewards resulting from these specially crafted diversions come in the form of 25 collectible masks. These quests can be introspective personal problems or monstrous external threats, and yet they all have emotional weight. Link can make a very distinct impact on most of the townsfolks lives, at least to the best of his ability. A player feels the same pressure of the clock as Link, and make the conscious choice of hitting reset themselves. Many over the years have attempted to save every character before the moon crashes by strategizing tasks and optimizing time. Of course, its not possible by design. No one is perfect, we cant predict the future, and the flow of time is unrelenting. Even though many of the masks have only a couple of use cases in gameplay, they are often pivotal to changing the fate of another character, with Link as the conduit. It is a tone that resonates with the humanity in the players, but often overlooked is its clashing and emulsifying of tones and ideas, as demonstrated in this interview between Aonuma, Koizumi, and Miyamoto in 2012:
Aonuma: To put it simply, I was responsible for the fairy-tale sections, and Koizumi was responsible for creating realistic depictions of the lives of the townspeople. I tried to emulate the fantasy atmosphere we had in Ocarina of Time
Koizumi: And I created realistic lives for the characters.
Aonuma: You could say that Koizumi slapped his worldview on the whole thing. [Laughs]
Koizumi: I put in everything Ive seen in my 30-something years on this earth.
Miyamoto: Its a very serious game. [Laughs]
Koizumi: Aonuma was in charge of the outdoors, and when he saw how serious my town was, he made his areas of the game more light-hearted.
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Of course, Aonuma and Koizumi were simply keeping their heads down and grinding their way to the finish line, unable to know that their efforts would see them as the lead directors of Nintendos two biggest franchises in the years to come, and as Majoras Mask was the platform they first stepped upon to prove themselves, seeds of this game could be seen throughout Nintendos library of first-party titles even to this day.
The two would work together on the controversial The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker on the GameCube, achieving a timeless cel-shaded look that puts aging, sensitive fans on the defense as the franchise leaned a little more appealing to children. Koizumi would take his wild ideas and give us a water jetpack in Super Mario Sunshine, repurpose the DK Bongos into an action platformer with Donkey Kong Jungle Beat, and has constantly reinvented Super Mario with installments like Galaxy, 3-D Land, and Odyssey, all with the wild level design density and unique mechanical upending that hes demonstrated throughout his career at Nintendo, few more iconic than the Three Day Cycle in Majoras Mask.
Aonuma, following the release of Majoras Mask, would continue being the producer at the head of the Zelda ship, and while he would leave his love for puzzles and text-based adventures scattered throughout, what he loves in the series often clashed with the status of other popular video games like oil and water. On the eve of the Switch and Breath of the Wild launching, an interview with Gameinformer asked him to name his favorite three games in the series. Ocarina, for the chance to build in 3-D, Twilight Princess to supersede Ocarina, and controversially names Phantom Hourglass and Tri Force Heroes for new styles of gameplay, and his wifes enjoyment of them.
His design fundamentals come from a place of building, and it comes as no surprise that his love for making games comes from a desire to upend convention, always looking to reinvent what a Zelda game is at every chance he gets. When he first started playing games, he didnt even care for the original Zelda all that much because he found he was bad at fast, twitchy combat. Naturally, under his supervision, combat became more of a puzzle-solving scenario.
But it is in Breath of the Wild that his desire to reinvent Zelda met with the needs of its audience, as the most successful game in the series to date, and also the one he had the most fun producing:
Ive been making Zelda titles for almost my entire career, and the memories start to pile up. I start to forget things, but I think one thing Ive always been proud of is the fact that Zelda games have always been about new surprises and thinking about different things to try, yet still maintain that Zeldaness, or whatever it is.
Breath of the Wild, it was really fun to develop maybe the most fun Ive ever had making a game. It was because of the staff. They took so much initiative and were always looking at everything in the game with this eye to improve I could see it every day. As a producer, it gave me a lot of courage
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For Aonuma, his continued work and the way he speaks demonstrates that no matter how big The Legend of Zelda gets, hes always looking to change it, and always keeps it very personally close to his heart.
It is because Aonuma and Koizumi stayed true to their passion for directing that Majoras Mask is the way it is, and seeing the game that way makes it feel even more alive than it did before. The success and life long fans created of this game speak to people because it was a product, as many sequels are, to appease a corporate need for sales after a resounding success. Majoras Mask exists despite that. The spark that created Majoras Mask the way it existed at that moment is hard to pinpoint, even to the degree that Aonuma and his staff agree that the game was incomparable to others at the time, and in the 20 years since.
Aonuma: I heard that hardcore players love The Legend of Zelda: Majoras Mask more, so its kind of ironic for me. To be honest with you, I could only get approval for development because I made a game of that size [of Ocarina] back then. If you ask me [to make] that kind of game again, I cant do it.
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Part of that spark may have been the uncertain energy in the company at the time or cultivating talent in the young staff, but Majoras Mask is the only instance a full adventure was allowed to be made out of the assets already built for a Zelda game. For a couple of years, a sequel to Wind Waker was being planned for GameCube, and because of the low enthusiasm from the fanbase on the game at the time, the plans shifted to creating the more realistic Twilight Princess. Similarly. Aonuma and Zelda team desperately wanted to create a proper direct sequel adventure in Twilight Princess engine as well and were unable due to strict instruction from Shigeru Miyamoto to make it a Wii Zapper tie in with no story and barely any boss fights. Of course, that game became Links Crossbow Training. The opportunity for a direct sequel to a Zelda game of Majoras ilk has yet to turn up. It hasnt been until now, after the success of Breath of the Wild, that the Zelda team has been able to use their hard work rebuilding a Legend of Zelda engine from scratch for one extra game to tell a complex, moody adventure with the current unnamed sequel, whose single teaser trailer has fans reminiscing their love of Majora 20 years later. Whether that game will get to be anything like it is yet to be discovered.
Majoras Masks legacy has left a great impact over the years because of its tone, its themes, and its unique nature apart from its sister software in the Zelda franchise. However, its spirit is carried in small details throughout Aonuma and Koizumis careers. It is a game that is more personal to the fundamentals of these two mens passion for designing games, but also, in a stressful and uncertain time, they managed to turn it into a work of art by injecting it with their personalities, and their fears. While so many players over the years connect with Majora for its atmosphere, performing countless autopsies to pull deeper meaning, Nintendos productions always have a mystique about them, and the game spoke for itself. Now, when coming away with an understanding of their artistic flourishes, it feels human in the way it presents its world to players: Despair, grief, pain, sorrow, salvation, legacy, and hope. Link entered Termina looking for one friend and, provided it exists in some semblance of reality, departed with many. Link sees a bit of himself in every individual who gifts him a mask throughout this journey, and in turn, that allows the games architects to convey their experiences and musings to the player. The humanity of Majoras strange world just might be something that causes it to overshadow even Ocarina of Times revolutionary status the further we get from its release, but only time will tell.
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New Delhi: Food and life are indispensable from each other. As important as food is for the body, we often end up gaining weight due to eating too much. However, it is not just about the quantity of what we eat, but also about the quality. If we binge on processed, unhealthy foods, it is inevitable to gain weight, even when you practice portion control. At the same time, a diet on its own can do little for the body if you do not provide the process with regular and consistent physical activity in the form of some or the other exercise.
Since exercise and diet both play such a vital role in weight loss, it is important to know the right amount of exercise, and the right nutrients you must consume to achieve your goal weight.Greata Sherene Robinson, nutritionist, Cloudnine Group of Hospitals, Chennai, shares with us the importance of diet and exercise for a healthy body, how much of each you need, and a healthy recipe to help you in the practicality of the weight loss idea.
The most effective way to achieve a complete fitness goal is to knowthe calculation of what we eat. It is important to know the components of your food, such as how manycarbohydrates, how much protein, fat, calories, etc are you consuming. Excuses burn zero calories is a common statement we come across which can be altered by saying that exercise burns a ton. When your heart says yes toa yummy cheesecake, the mind keeps warning us about the waistline. So, fitness and food gohand in hand. If your left-hand lifts a dumbbell, make sure your right-hand gets a bowl of protein snack.
Food fuels our body. Whether you walk, jump or swim around, you need to eat a nutritious balanced diet to fuel your body. The macros play a major role in this balance.Coming to the carbs, it forms the base of any diet. The body utilizes them as glucose which is used by the muscles for energy. Choose carbs wisely by sticking to more of complex carbohydrates.All your ripped muscles need to undergo repair for which protein is a must.To help access all the stored carbohydrates, healthy fats come in place. Carbs and fats are the main sources of energy during any fitness regimen. Microminerals and vitamins like vitamin C, E, carotenoids and flavonoids helpin healing muscle injury.Water keeps the muscle activated and prevents dehydration.
One calorie is basically the amount of energy needed to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water through 1 C.
To understand it the simple way, (1 g =? kcal) Carbohydrates - 4 Kcal Protein - 4 kcal Fat - 9 kcal
For example, suppose you buy a chocolate bar on which the label reads as: Carbohydrates 58.5 g x 4 kcal = 234 kcal Protein 7.8 g x 4 kcal = 31 kcal Fat 31.1 g x 9 kcal = 280 kcal
Makes a total of 545 kcal/100 g.
This is the way we calculate calories. But remember that calorie intake differs from individual to individual based on factors like age, height, sex and lifestyle. Lets look at how to get the right food in appropriate quantity to keep our fitness goals on track.
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Grind them all together. Sprinkle the seeds on top. The shake makes for a great post-workout meal. It is a good source of potassium, proteins. It contains oats which are aslow digestible fibre that keeps you fuller for a longer duration.
Please note - In pregnancy, exercise caution while taking any type of fasts, as the baby's needs are specific and usually fasting is not encouraged. If you are still keen to know how to modify your diet during Navratri, please contact your nutritionist for safe personalized guidance via a video consultation so that you can reach out from the safety and comfort of your homes.
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Disclaimer: Tips and suggestions mentioned in the article are for general information purpose only and should not be construed as professional medical advice. Always consult your doctor or a dietician before starting any fitness programme or making any changes to your diet.
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A nutritional diet maximizes the benefits of exercise and improves working memory, according to a new study from Abbott. In collaboration with the U.S. Air Force Research Lab and the University of Illinois, researchers found a direct link between nutrition and physical and cognitive performance.
The physical and mental health benefits of exercise are well known, but this study demonstrates how optimal nutrition can help boost brain function as well, said lead study author Dr. Chris Zwilling. We are excited by the results because they provide critical insights into how simple dietary changes can make a big difference in helping people be as efficient and productive as possible in todays world.
The investigation was focused on 148 active-duty men and women in the U.S. Air Force, who were divided into two groups. All of the study participants engaged in the same exercise training program five days a week. One group was given a high-protein nutritional drink which contained lutein, omega-3 fatty acids, phospholipids, vitamin D, and beta-hydroxy-beta-methylbutyrate (HMB).
The nutritional supplement was found to induce statistically significant changes compared to exercise alone. The participants who were given the nutritional drinks showed an 11-percent boost in working memory, including improvements in problem solving and information processing.
The individuals who received supplements became faster and more accurate in their reaction times and increased their muscle mass by more than two pounds. In addition, they lowered their resting heart rate by 8 percent, which is a sign of increased cardiovascular fitness.
Study co-author Dr. Matthew Kuchan said that Abbott has been researching the impact of nutrition on brain function for more than a decade. These results confirm that by combining the right nutrition and exercise, people who are facing high-pressure situations can stay sharp physically and mentally when they need it most.
Healthy adults can prime their bodies and brains to work more efficiently by incorporating exercise with a nutritional diet. The experts shared the following recommendations: consume foods rich in protein to help build muscle after a workout; support memory and multi-tasking by getting enough DHA an omega-3 fatty acid in your diet; and boost your working memory by consuming more lutein, which can be found in egg yolks, dark leafy greens, and brightly colored fruits and vegetables like bell peppers, avocados, carrots, corn, and tomatoes.
It is clear that nutrition is a critical component for developing and maintaining the physical and cognitive performance of the men and women in the U.S. Air Force, said Dr. Adam Strang, the studys lead investigator with the Air Force Research Laboratory. This research confirms that a nutritional supplement with the right nutrients can support and facilitate those improvements when paired with balanced exercise training. We hope to use this knowledge now and, in the future, to better prepare them for the complex and diverse mission sets they are facing.
The study is published in the journal Scientific Reports.
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New business offers perfect locale for the mind, body and soul (4 photos) – OrilliaMatters
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Downtown Midland operation firmly believes that preventing serious health setbacks like diabetes and heart conditions can often be managed effectively through diet, exercise and mindfulness
A new Midland business promises something for the body, mind and soul.
Located on King St.between Dominion Ave. and Bay St., MegaMindful Living features a plant-based smoothie bar called Newfies Soups and Smoothies and an adjacent small, bright dining area. As well, there's a large, open fitness studio where they offer yoga, tai chi and other classes as well as a variety of mindfulness exercises.
We have a place that features preventative measures, said Megan Marchildon, who manages the day-to-day operations, pointing out that preventing serious health setbacks like diabetes and heart conditions can often be effectively managed through diet, exercise and mindfulness.
The business is owned by her parents Janice and Kevin Marchildon and overseen by Janice, a nurse practitioner with almost 30 years of experience specialising in oncology, nephrology and caring for patients with many chronic illnesses.She's alsoa member of the American Academy of Lifestyle Medicine.
While Kevin grew up in the area before moving away for work, Janice is from Cornerbrook, Newfoundand (thus the smoothie bars moniker). They lived in Texas for many years before deciding to settle here earlier this year.
Their daughter Megan Marchildon said they wanted to offer something they felt the area was missing by creating a community-orientated wellness center focusing on helping others to improve and maintain health through healthy eating, exercise and psychosocial and mental wellbeing.
So after working for 30 years in the field, and only doing the post care, with my dad treating people post heart attacks and my mom filtering a lot of people that already have diabetes, they decided okay, we want to open up a place inMidland, said Marchildon, a three-time, All American heptathlete and certified fitness instructor, who was born in Midland.
We have a strong passion for mindfulness and thinking about thechoices that we make every day and how they impact others and impact the planet.
Along with on-site exercise classes structured towards individual needs, the centre is also connected with an on-site holistic pharmacist. They're also planning to offerweekly nutrition classes with cooking demonstrations and professional-certified dietary oversight along with hosting various guest speakers who emphasize holistic wellness approaches and focus on natural remedies.
There's actually a lot of people that want to follow a plant-based diet and really learn more about plant-based dieting, Marchildon said.And thats kind of what we're here for. Our natural pharmacist is also a nutritionist so he can help people to find the ways that they can get their nutrients through plant based foods.
Besides smoothies with original names like Georgian Shores Moonlight, Hunky Money and Get Your Gtigann On, the businesss food side offers an assortment of vegan pasta salads, wraps, soups and toasties, including one with avocado, sauteed mushrooms, onion and plant-based cheese called Me Mudders Favorite.
But whats it like to open a new business in the middle of a global pandemic?
Yeah, thats been pretty rough, especially with the work on King Street, Marchildon said, referring to the towns ongoing, major reconstruction project of its main thoroughfare.
So the roads all torn up and then weve got COVID going on so we had to do some last minute changes and make a smoothie bar because, at first, they were only allowing essential food services. We're hoping once the road opens up, we'll get a bit more traffic.
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Following an exercise and nutrition regimen could benefit physical and cognitive health – ConsumerAffairs
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Photo (c) VTT Studio - Getty ImagesA healthy diet and regular exercise are key ingredients to a healthy lifestyle, and now researchers are exploring both the mental and physical health benefits associated with these habits.
According to a new study conducted by researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, following an exercise and nutrition regimen can have countless positive benefits for consumers physical and cognitive health.
Our work motivates the design of novel multimodal interventions that incorporate both aerobic fitness training and nutritional supplementation, and illustrates that their benefits extend beyond improvements in physical fitness to enhance multiple measures of cognitive function, said researcher Aron Barbey.
For this 12-week study, the researchers had 148 active members of the Air Force participate in a rigorous exercise program. While all of the participants followed the same workout routine over the course of the study, half of the group received a nutritional beverage daily and the other half received a placebo drink with no added nutritional benefits.
At the end of the study, it was clear that just following this exercise program was beneficial for the participants. The researchers observed improvements to both physical and mental health, as participants had lower resting heart rates and lower body fat percentage, as well as better memory and problem-solving abilities.
The exercise intervention alone improved strength and endurance, mobility and stability, and participants also saw increases in several measures of cognitive function, Barbey said. They had better episodic memory and processed information more efficiently at the end of the 12 weeks. And they did better on tests that required them to solve problems they had never encountered before, an aptitude called fluid intelligence.
However, the real benefits came for those who were exercising and consuming the nutritional beverage each day. According to the researchers, the drink was packed with protein, several different vitamins, omega-3s, and a variety of other nutrients, and this combination was what led to even greater mental and physical health benefits for the participants.
Those who consumed the nutritional supplement saw all of these improvements and more, Barbey said. For example, they were better able to retain new information in their working memory and had quicker responses on tests of fluid intelligence than those taking the placebo.
The researchers hope that these findings demonstrate just how beneficial it can be for consumers to adopt healthy habits, as there is great opportunity to improve physical health and strengthen cognitive abilities.
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In your 40s? Here are 8 diet tips that will help women stay in shape explains nutritionist Pooja Banga – PINKVILLA
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If youre in your 40s and still want to look good, Pooja Banga, Nutritionist & director at Cultivating Health is here to help you out! Check it out
Having a perfectly healthy body is the dream of many women, especially at age of 40. At the age of 40, your body is not that active that it used yo be at your 20's. If you think it's impossible to look fit and healthy at the age of 40, then you are wrong. You can have a perfect body with some healthy tips.
1. Eat breakfast
Don't miss your breakfast. Eating breakfast is essential as our body metabolism slows down 2% each decade. Eating at the beginning of the day works with your metabolism which is at its peak in morning and fuels activity. Also, women who eat breakfast lose more weight and maintain their loss more efficiently compared with those on a low-carb diet who can put the weight back on after just in few months.
2. Exercise!
Although it is difficult to lose weight or to sustain weight post 40, it's not impossible and problems like joint pain, back pain etc should not prevent you from starting exercise. Any kind of exercise can be designed for you and your body. A 30 minutes workout gives your metabolism the kick start it needs. There is no need to join a gym. A simple squats for thighs and stomach crunches will help to strengthen your bones, maintaining balance and also avoid injury, that becomes more important when you getting older.
3. Take calcium and vitamin D
It is important to maintain strong bones in order to give them a boost with vitamin D and calcium. Foods such as salmon and milk are rich in vitamin D and calcium. You can also have supplements, if necessary.
4. Manage your stress
For a woman, holding down a job as well as looking after a family, it's not easy. Stress can result in unhealthy changes in the body like lower libido, increased blood pressure and faster cell death. This can cause ageing faster. Hence meditation and you can help to deal with stress and pressure. Also, in order to maintain a healthy heartbeat, breathe in through your nose for four beats and out for eight at least twice a day or anytime you feel stressed.
5. Eat protein to boost your mood and brain
If you are prone to low moods, increase the intake of protein in your diet. Eating foods rich in protein boosts levels of mood-lifting cells in the brain, that can help to deal with depression and poor memory.
Foods like eggs, fish and quinoa are rich sources of protein. They help in increasing serotonin production in the brain and boost your mood.
6. Avoid junk food
Avoid eating packed and junk food as they are rich in fats and sugar. They can be troublesome to your body. Eat healthy fruits and vegetables. Also, go for seasonal fresh foods as they are healthy.
7. Catch up with friends
Make sure you hang out with your friends. It not only relaxes you but boost self-esteem and reduce stress as well. A good social life means less risk of heart disease, diabetes and strokes.
8. Schedule health checks
This is the period when health checks really necessary. Essential checks such as an eye test, mammogram, blood pressure, thyroid, cholesterol and cervical smear in order to keep your body healthy and fit.
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Living With Arthritis: Causes, Symptoms and Treatment – LIVESTRONG.COM
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More than 54 million U.S. adults have arthritis, and the condition is more common in women than men.
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While most people with arthritis experience some kind of joint pain and stiffness, the condition can look quite different from person to person. In fact, there are more than 100 types of arthritis, all of which can make everyday activities challenging.
Here, you'll find practical recommendations for preventing and living with arthritis, including science-backed diet, exercise and lifestyle tips aimed at improving your joint health.
Osteoarthritis most commonly occurs in the hands, knees and hips.
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Nearly a quarter of U.S. adults have been diagnosed with arthritis, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which is marked by pain, stiffness and swelling in the joints caused by inflammation.
This inflammation occurs for different reasons and in different areas of the body, which separates one type of arthritis from another. The most common form is osteoarthritis, or "wear and tear" arthritis, per the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM), which results when the cartilage at the ends of bones wears away due to either injury or repeated use.
The second most common type is rheumatoid arthritis, an autoimmune condition in which the body attacks its own tissues, per the NLM. It can affect any joint and other organs of the body, too, but it's most often seen in the wrists and fingers.
Then there's juvenile arthritis, a type that occurs in children, which isn't very well understood but seems to be linked to a problem with the immune system, per the CDC.
Low-impact exercise like biking is a great way to keep your joints healthy.
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Some risk factors for arthritis, like carrying certain genes, are outside of our control. But others like smoking are what's called modifiable, meaning you can lower your risk by changing your behavior.
Your weight, diet choices, exercise regimen, posture and even your dental hygiene fall into the modifiable category. Establishing good habits in these areas can reduce your odds of developing arthritis as well as improve your overall joint health and protect your bones as you age.
Certain foods may lessen the inflammation that comes with arthritis.
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There is no cure for arthritis, unfortunately. Instead, the goal for those with the condition is to control symptoms as best they can.
"Improving one's arthritis pain can and will be a lifelong journey," Maria Kyriacou, MD, a primary care sports medicine physician at Miami Orthopedics and Sports Medicine Institute in South Florida, tells LIVESTRONG.com. "There will be both good and bad days. However, the goal is to minimize the frequency of your bad days."
Beyond over-the-counter and prescription medications, managing stress, getting daily physical activity and trying alternative therapies like massage can make a big difference for some people when it comes to taming arthritis pain and stiffness.
Discover seven strategies that can help ease arthritis aches and make everyday activities more manageable.
An arthritis diet follows the same principles as an overall healthy diet, like packing in fruits and veggies.
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Some people with arthritis might find symptom relief by changing what they eat. That's because arthritis is caused by inflammation, and some foods have the ability to help tamp down this "fire" in the body.
"At the root of the pathology of arthritis is chronic and unchecked inflammation," says Liz Wyosnick, RDN, dietitian and owner of Equilibriyum in Seattle, Washington. "Diet can absolutely impact arthritis by either exacerbating inflammatory symptoms or by quieting inflammation."
The Mediterranean diet is often cited as a good diet for arthritis, since it focuses on anti-inflammatory foods such as fruits, veggies and fatty fish like salmon. The diet has been linked to many other benefits, too, including better weight control and heart health.
When you do them regularly, simple exercises like stretching can aid in alleviating joint pain and stiffness.
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Although the aches and pains that often come with arthritis can make exercise feel like the last thing you want to do, a regular workout routine can reduce pain, improve joint function and boost the quality of life of people with arthritis, according to the CDC.
If you're new to working out, you'll want to start slow and be prepared for some soreness. But don't let that deter you find a way to move that you truly enjoy, and stick with it, even if it's just for a few minutes each day.
"Any exercise for somebody with arthritis who's sedentary is going to be helpful," says Brian Andonian, MD, a rheumatologist and assistant professor of medicine at Duke University School of Medicine. "Every little bit adds up."
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A few key changes in diet and lifestyle can help a person lower their cholesterol naturally with time. There is no instant fix, but some people may notice changes in a matter of weeks.
In some cases, a person may need medication to help lower their cholesterol or control other risk factors.
However, even if a person is taking medication, it is still important for them to make changes to help improve their cholesterol levels and reduce their risk of side effects.
In the body, the liver makes cholesterol, which is a waxy substance. Cholesterol molecules circulate in the blood.
The liver makes all the cholesterol that the body needs, so a person does not need to consume cholesterol in their diet.
Cholesterol itself is not bad. Blood cholesterol plays an important role in helping build cells.
Other sources of cholesterol come from the diet. Dietary cholesterol is present only in foods derived from animals, such as meat and fat-rich dairy products.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) note that experts recommend eating as little dietary cholesterol as possible.
This is because adding more dietary sources of cholesterol adds more of this compound to the body and bloodstream, which increases a persons cholesterol levels.
When measuring cholesterol levels, doctors will assess four markers in a persons blood:
Doctors will use all of these numbers within the context of a persons overall health and other risk factors to determine their risk of heart disease and stroke.
High cholesterol plays a role in worsening heart health.
As more cholesterol circulates in the blood, it may be harder for the heart to pump this blood properly. This cholesterol can also contribute to plaque buildup in the arteries, raising the risk of atherosclerosis.
High cholesterol puts a person at risk of heart disease, as well as heart attack and stroke.
A person looking to lower their cholesterol levels quickly can follow a few basic health principles.
These include getting regular exercise and focusing on a diet rich in plant foods and low in refined foods and some types of fats.
Cholesterol has a lot to do with what a person eats. For that reason, a healthful diet is one of the first things that doctors recommend for people who want to lower their cholesterol quickly.
The following dietary changes may help a person reduce their cholesterol as quickly as possible.
Trans fats lower the levels of beneficial cholesterol and raise the levels of unhealthful cholesterol.
Some dietary trans fats occur naturally in foods such as milk and meat products.
Other trans fats come from manufacturing processes. Food companies create them by adding hydrogen to certain fats to make them more solid.
Possible sources of trans fats include meat and dairy products, packaged hydrogenated oils, and fried foods from fast-food restaurants.
Saturated fats are solid at room temperature and may not be healthful in large amounts.
Eating large amounts of saturated fat raises levels of LDL cholesterol. The American Heart Association (AHA) recommend limiting saturated fat intake to 56% of daily calories.
Sources of saturated fat include meat and dairy products, such as cheese, butter, and milk, as well as vegetable oils, such as palm and coconut oil.
A cholesterol-lowering diet involves eating a wide variety of plant foods, such as fruits, vegetables, grains, and seeds.
Adding a variety of plant foods to the diet helps ensure that the body gets the various nutrients and vitamins it needs to operate properly.
Plant foods are also free of cholesterol, so they will not contribute to cholesterol levels in the body.
In addition, plant foods contain nutrients that may reduce other risk factors for heart disease, such as antioxidants and some types of fiber.
Plants are the only source of fiber in the diet. Fiber is an important factor for digestive health, which may also affect other risk factors, such as high cholesterol.
The AHA estimate that a diet high in fiber alone can help lower cholesterol levels by as much as 10%.
Eating more plant foods will naturally increase fiber intake. People who need extra fiber may consider taking a fiber supplement to help them reach their daily needs.
Introducing variety into the diet may help people manage some risk factors for heart disease.
Many people get their protein mainly from animal sources. However, it may help for them to include plant protein sources in their diet too.
A number of vegetable foods that contain substantial amounts of protein include:
Adding plant-based proteins to the diet can help the body meet its protein needs without adding cholesterol.
It is best to avoid refined food whenever possible.
Refined and packaged foods tend to have ingredients that make them shelf-stable while also giving them a desirable flavor.
These foods often include ingredients that a person should avoid when they are looking to reduce their cholesterol.
Among the ingredients to avoid are refined grains, added trans and saturated fats, and added sugars.
Several lifestyle factors can affect a persons cholesterol levels. Some people may find that making certain changes to their lifestyle helps lower their cholesterol.
Exercise plays a key role in cardiovascular health and healthful cholesterol levels.
The AHA note that just 150 minutes of moderate-intensity aerobic exercise per week helps reduce cholesterol and other risk factors, such as high blood pressure.
To achieve this, a person needs to do a 30-minute activity that gets the heart rate up on 5 days of the week. These activities may include:
Smoking affects many aspects of good health. For people with high cholesterol, smoking decreases the levels of beneficial cholesterol in the body.
A study published in Biomarker Research found that people who quit smoking had a rapid increase in their HDL cholesterol. This is an important sign of overall cholesterol health.
Reaching or maintaining a moderate weight may also lower disease risk factors in people with obesity. It may help people lower their levels of LDL cholesterol and raise their levels of HDL cholesterol.
The AHA note that a weight loss of 10% of a persons total body weight can help improve their cholesterol numbers.
Medications are an important tool for those who have dangerously high cholesterol levels and may be at risk of an event such as heart failure or stroke.
Statins are the standard medication for most people. Statin drugs reduce cholesterol and lower the risk of heart attack or stroke from high cholesterol.
Depending on a persons individual risk factors, doctors may recommend other drugs, such as:
Even with medication, it is still important to focus on making dietary and lifestyle changes to lower cholesterol.
High cholesterol is a risk factor for serious events, such as heart failure and stroke.
A person can make a number of dietary and lifestyle changes to help lower their cholesterol as quickly as possible.
These changes include eating a varied diet rich in plants, avoiding saturated and trans fats, and getting regular exercise.
People who have severely high cholesterol may require medications to keep their cholesterol in check.
However, they should still prioritize making dietary and lifestyle changes to promote healthful cholesterol levels.
A person should work with a doctor to decide on the right plan of action for them and make lasting changes to keep their cholesterol down.
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