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Aging Gracefully
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10/26/09 11:04 PM
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Aging Gracefully
Pomegranates have been listed as the number-one anti-ager. Wow, and they are in season now--October and November. They can be cut in half and squeezed like an orange...I like to just eat them straight--and spit out the seeds of course.
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Re: Aging Gracefully
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Aging Gracefully
The brain is the most important and influential organ in the aging process because it controls the rest of the body, as well as our behavior. Fortunately, the measures required to keep the brain healthy and sharp also keep almost the entire body healthy. The principle of "use it or lose it" applies to the brain, as well as to the rest of the body.
The brain develops new cells and new connections in response to challenges posed in interesting situations and in social relationships. Meaningful social engagement is critical to our feeling of well-being. Giving and receiving help when needed are very nurturing to the mind and body. Research has confirmed that volunteering for causes you believe in is a great anti-aging and disease-fighting activity. --Los Angeles Times, June 23, 2008.
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Re: Aging Gracefully
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To age well is not an accident. It is a gift that those who care can give to themselves. Here are several factors that can delay various physical signs of aging.
* Exercise is a truly potent age eraser. Indeed inactivity hastens aging. Exercise does the opposite. Exercise and a healthy diet can empower your old age, (or any age).
* Dr. Clive J. McCay of Cornell University has shown by his research that overeating is a major cause of premature aging. To prolong life and assure good health he recommends a very moderate diet of nutritionally superior natural foods.
* Gerontologists (researchers who study the aging process) around the country are taking lots of the antioxidant nutrients, including vitamins C and E.
* A Prevention article (July 1999) noted that meat can set your aging clock on fast forward. Consume less animal protein.
* A balanced diet that includes lots of fruits and veggies, grains, seeds, nuts, and quality plant protein is most important. Broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, fruits, oats seeds and non-genetically engineered soybeans should be lavishly consumed. Beets are a top source of antioxidants to fight aging.
* Drink an adequate amount of pure water...drink even when you don't feel thirsty, your body needs plenty of water. Dehydration has been identified as one of the most frequent causes of hospitalization among people over the age of 65 according to a recent study.
* Cut back on salt
* Avoid saturated fats, caffeine, red meat, white flour, white sugar, chemical food additives, drugs, pesticides and tap water.
* Improve your blood's oxygenation and circulation with deep breathing exercises.
* Keep the colon clean. This is crucial for warding off degenerative diseases and slowing the aging process. Eat a high fiber diet which includes plenty of fresh veggies, whole grains, bran and oats.
* Get plenty of rest, sleep and utilize various other relaxation techniques. This is vital.
* Don't smoke and avoid exposure to harmful chemicals and other pollutants.
* 40 may be the old age of youth, but it's also the youth of old age.
"You're more than smart--you are wise by experience. You're more than attractive--you've developed inner beauty. Your age does not define you--you define your age. You're more than active--you're vital and fit and loving it!" --From various Prevention, maazines.
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Re: Aging Gracefully
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Here is a statement on the subject from the New York Times, July 8, 1992.
"Some sort of meeting of the minds is at work here. Those who have been vegetarian because they believe that not consuming animal products is morally or environmentally correct now have the support of a large body of scientific evidence suggesting that increasing the consumption of fruit, vegetables, grains, and low fat dairy poducts, and decreasing or eliminating the consumption of meat, poultry and fish, may forestall the chronic ailments of aging like cancer and heart disease and can reverse the effects of atherosclerosis."
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Re: Aging Gracefully
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WOMEN WHO SLEEP BETTER, AGE BETTER
Are you careful to get your beauty rest? Do you never have a problem falling asleep or sleeping as long as needed to wake up rested? Are you 60 or older? If you answered "yes" to all of these questions, you may age more "successfully," according to research from the University of California, San Diego.
What do these investigators mean by "successful aging"? They measured this with a self-rating questionnaire given to the study's subjects, and with the perceived difference between the women's chronologic age and the age they appeared to be.
To come to this conclusion, the researchers assessed over 2,200 women aged 60 and up. The best predictors of successful aging in this sample of women: fewer complaints of insomnia and less napping in the daytime.
Although older folk require less sleep than younger people, they are best off if they can fall asleep within 30 minutes of going to bed and stay asleep for most of the night. Sleep problems are quite common in women 60 and up, and the pharmaceuticals prescribed for insomnia are addicting. Some of these medications are linked with scary incidences of sleepwalking, sleep eating, and even sleep driving.
Nutritional supplements can more safely help with this issue--particularly a combination of valerian and hops investigated by researchers in Switzerland and elsewhere. Melatonin, a hormone made in the pineal gland in response to the fall of darkness, can be taken as a supplement to more quickly bring on sleep at night and to foster a full, uninterrupted night's sleep. It is also widely used to remedy jet lag and put the traveler more quickly into the new circadian (light-dark) rhythm. --Healthy Living, Vol. 12, No. 7.
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AGING AND ANIMAL PROTEIN
Animal protein stimulates rapid growth predisposing to a shorter lifespan. Flesh foods tend to cause our engines to run at a higher rate of speed--even when at rest--promoting accelerated aging. (Trash, MD, Nutrition for Vegetarians). Indeed, a high meat diet's effect on the system can be compared to putting an automobile in neutral and running the engine at 70 miles an hour.
Dr. Ralph Bircher, the famous biochemist from Zurich, Switzerland, points out that the aging process is triggered by amyloid, a by-product of protein metabolism, which is deposited in all the connective tissues, causing tissue and organ degeneration--leading to premature aging. (Paavo Airola, PhD, How to Get Well). That helps explain why so many vegetarians look younger than their years!
Food and nuitrition have a much greater effect on the aging process than previously realized. Yet, overeating ages people. Yes, eat less for an anti-aging effect. However, ample amounts of fiber and antioxidant rich fruits and veggies and whole grains with a minimum amount of salt, and sugar, while avoiding animal protein, caffeine, nicotine and alcohol, and drinking enough water, all combine to decelerate the aging process.
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Re: Aging Gracefully
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REVERSAL OF AGING
Is aging inevitable? Of Course. But you may not realize how much you can do to slow down or even reverse the changes time brings.
A researcher at the Palo Alto, California, Medical Clinic, was struck by the similarities between physical changes we associate with aging and those caused by inactivity--after his leg was in a cast for six weeks. Even though he was only 35 at the time, the "withered, stiff and painful" leg that emerged from the cast appeared to have aged 40 years.
He searched through the medical literature and found that--point by point, right down the line--lack of exercise produced the very same or similar bodily effects as aging. He concluded: "There is no drug in current or prospective use that holds as much promise for sustained health as a lifetime program of physical exercise." It's a medicine so potent another researcher has called it "the closest thing to an antiaging pill." --adapted from Prevention, Sept. 1983.
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