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Simple Steps To Look Young And Vibrant In Most Natural Ways.
Staying young and looking good is everybody's wish irrespective of our age. Whether you are in your twenties, thirties or midlife, you naturally wish to stay young and vibrant. Discover some valuable tips here to fulfill your wish in ageless living.
The first step is a simple and happy lifestyle. Be contented and thankful with who you are and what you have achieved. You should still have your ambition and goals to set the direction for your life, but realistic and achievable goals are important benchmark. The rightful way to look at life is; it is all about you and how you feel about yourself and not about if you are born rich or poor. It's not about a list of relationships you've been in, or your status in the world. It's about you.
The second step is eating right. It is important to understand that the quality of life ahead of you depends on how you care for your body today. A balanced diet is one with the right minerals, vitamins and proteins from the right sources of foods and eating right means eating regular meals of the right portion. The healthiest way to eat is by taking whole food, unprocessed, without added flavor, sugar and preservative. CUT DOWN ON SALT INTAKE as salt can push up your blood pressure and injure arteries. Salt deposits in the body can cause serious side effects; gout, kidney stone or gall bladder stone and even clogged blood veins.
CUT DOWN ON COFFEE AND TEA because they contain caffeine which dehydrate your body. Caffeine drains water from your body system resulting in sagging and wrinkled skin. It also elevates blood pressure and makes your heart work much harder.
REDUCT SUGAR INTAKE because sugar is the root cause of diseases like diabetes and even cancer. Diabetes develops slowly, springs on you suddenly and can result in the loss of limb, potency and even life. Sugar is known to promote growth of cancer cells.
AVOID CIGARETTES because cigarettes cause serious damage to your body and is a major threat to healthy skin. It robs your skin of oxygen and produces free radical which leads to premature aging. The most known side effect of cigarettes is of course cancer.
The third step is regular exercise. Regular exercise tones your body muscles, reduce body fat, fight disease and relieve depression, tension and stress. Do the exercise you like and weave it into your life on a regular basis. Vary the routine so that you don't burn out. Sneak exercise into your day whenever and wherever you can.
The final step is resting well. Sufficient sleep is important to you, otherwise you rob yourself of the chance to repair your body and mind.
It is possible to start doing something now to completely renew yourself. Eat well and exercise regularly and within a few months and you will be able to see some results. You will have stronger muscles, improved joints and mobility.Your heart gets stronger which pumps blood more efficiently without much strain on your body. You feel more energetic and vibrant. You will burn more calories, and so your body and muscles are firmer. With simple life, and sufficient rest, your body will be renewed, you feel better, happier, healthier and very importantly, younger.
Staying young and looking good is everybody's wish irrespective of our age. Whether you are in your twenties, thirties or midlife, you naturally wish to stay young and vibrant. Discover some valuable tips here to fulfill your wish in ageless living.
Janice H. is a nutritional expert cum author. She shares with people around the world on HOW to live a true life to achieve: Happiness, Health and Youthfulness. Visit Janice's Blog to discover how to immediately improve your life and receive FREE e-Report specially written for you.
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Stop getting old - reverse aging? New research into ageing process as a disease with potential for treatment. Anti-aging ther
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Resist The Force Of Aging
If you’re the type of person who would rather watch TV and eat all day long than giving you’re muscles a little more stretch, better think twice. Here’s the deal: this lifestyle speeds up aging. How? Well, inactivity accelerates aging in two ways: it decreases our muscle strength and gives us extra pounds.
Muscle meltdown
As we age, the quantity and strength of our muscle fibers diminish. Truth to the matter is, we lose two to four pounds of muscles every ten years. Decreased number and strength of muscles causes our muscles to lose flexibility, losing our usual range of motion and optimal strength.
Lack of exercise is to blame. It was found out that not exercising for even just a week weakens our muscles significantly. In fact, if you don’t exercise for a month, you will lose almost 50% of your original muscle strength. Some people may not even notice their atrophied muscles because of the fatty buildup in their body. Blame that too to lack of exercise.
Gaining extra pounds
The simple logic here is that if you are inactive, you gain extra pounds, and extra pounds can age you. But hey, there’s a missing link. How does an increase in weight speed up aging?
Researchers have recently found out that as people become heavier and became more insulin resistant (a common side effect of being fat and heavy), their telomeres (strands of DNA at the end of a chromosome that protect the tip from destruction and classically shorten with age) shrank more than those of people who didn't increase their weight and developed more insulin resistance, an apparent sign that the aging process was speeding up among overweight. Researchers suppose that the stress caused by increased weight and insulin resistance spawn inflammation and free radicals that damage cells. Simply put, a heavier body ages its own DNA.
The Solution
But the good news is, you can recover what you have lost and slice off what you have gained. Research clearly shows that a healthy lifestyle and exercise can help keep your DNA younger.
In studies, regular exercise has been proven to keep you from diabetes, muscle atrophy, cancer, stroke, Alzheimer’s, and heart diseases. Regular workout helps prevent hypertension, reduces body fat, raises High Density Lipoprotein (good cholesterol), lowers Low-Density Lipoprotein (bad cholesterol), improves circulation, keeps the bowel healthy, and regulates key hormones.
An anti-aging workout is best for you! This includes consistent cardio, yoga, and weight training.
You can do jogging, cycling, walking, and swimming for thirty minutes a day for about five times a week. Doing these of higher intensity everyday can be helpful in bringing more blood and oxygen to our brain. These activities also guard your heart by lowering blood pressure, reducing LDL, and keeping arteries flexible to improve circulation.
Lifting weights should also be part of your roster of activities. Weightlifting for 20 minutes a day, twice a week can be of great help in having strong bones, and muscles, which of course includes the heart. For beginners, 3-5 pound dumbbells will do.
Doing yoga is one of the best activities to fight stress. It relaxes the body, thereby, keeping stress from burning you out. It also protects the body against free radicals that break down the elasticity of the skin.
More Benefits
Exercise does not only keep you young, it also helps you sleep, firms you up, improves your mood, keeps you slim, and take note of this, charges up your sex life :D
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