Food Can Be The Ticket to Anti-Aging
When considering anti-aging, there are certain foods that are credited with slowing down the negative effects of growing old. Interestingly enough, most of the foods recommended are healthy for anyone to eat, regardless if the person’s goal is to slow age progression or not. Good anti-aging food choices are those that are low in calories and saturated fat and low in salt and processed sugar content. These foods are also high in vitamins and minerals. Experts say to eat foods, in moderation of course, from each food group and to keep your diet diverse.
Nutritionists recommend several items to fight the effects of time on the human body. Avocados are a great source of healthy fat and vitamin E, which maintains firm and moisturized skin. Berries are a good source on antioxidants and green vegetables are great at combating toxins in the body and include healthy enzymes when eaten raw. Other foods include garlic, ginger, nuts, whole wheat and many others. If you have a proper diet, you have an anti-aging diet as well.
Another recommendation found in anti-aging literature is to stay 5 to 10 % below one’s ideal body weight. Being too thin is obviously not what they are endorsing, however, being a little below ideal is supposed to allow fluctuation room while still remaining healthy. However, depending on who you ask, 10% below ideal weight is underweight, which is not always healthy. This weight loss should be discussed with a doctor as there are various factors that constitute healthy what healthy weight means for different people.
Perhaps anti-aging is just a pretty name for being healthy. It may be more attractive then telling people to, simply, be healthy and make healthy choices and it is probably more appealing because women are obsessed with looking and feeling young. It seems that anti-aging medicines, creams, foods and lifestyles are just aimed at helping someone to be healthy.
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