People of today are adopting healthy lifestyles, and the combination of lifestyle changes, advancements in public health, and improved healthcare is contributing to a longer life expectancy. Maintaining a healthy lifestyle is essential to minimize stress and ensure optimal performance.

Monday, October 29, 2012

Tips to slow down aging process

The aging process begins the moment people were born and continues until he die. Its effect really start to become evident sometime between twentieth and thirtieth birthdays and are increasingly obvious every year thereafter.

Metabolism begins to change and people gain weight easier and find more difficult to lose and digestive tract becomes sluggish and more sensitive. Among the common ideas for slowing the process of aging:

*Taking vitamin E and C supplements regularly. Vitamin E primarily protects cell membranes and vitamin C protects the inside part of the cells, in its watery fluid.

Vitamin E may play a role in keeping arteries clear. In one study in Italy shows that the women who had lower levels of vitamin E in the blood had greater amounts of artery-clogging plaque.

*Lowering polyunsaturated fats in the diet. Polyunsaturated fat is one of the substance which is more easily oxidized than others and thus gives rise to more free radical reactions, presumably, therefore promoting aging due to free radical mediated damage to cells.

*Dieting to slow aging. In any case, restricting diets by eating less, but maintaining adequate amounts of nutrition is healthy and can thus increase the life expectancy. Diet should be developed to improve and preserve health and wellbeing and slow down the ageing process. Losing weight must be just a consequence rather than a goal.

*Practice of mental to reduce stress. Take adequate rest, relax as often as possible and sleep well. An afternoon nap can boost life span as well as the performance.

Stress is tremendously aging, and the way people react to stressful, situation is usually more harmful than the stressful event itself.

*An active life

*Good marriage and social life can prolong life

*Regular exercise is important. It is good for body and mind, it can prevent a host of diseases. Regular exercise fight the tendency of oxygen to slowly breakdown muscle mass, might protect against the type of tissue and muscle loss that occur as individual grow older.

Vigorous daily exercise increase the body’s production of human growth hormone, which helps regenerate the body’s cells.

*Mental exercise such as reading and crossword puzzles, and physical aerobic exercise for about 15 minutes, three times a week can go long way towards preserving the body and mind.

Use the brain regularly and it can remain sharp until 100 years old and beyond.

*Water is the best anti-aging vitamin for skin. Well dehydrated skin stays smoother and is less prone to wrinkling.
Tips to slow down aging process

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