Monday, May 18, 2009

Anti-Aging Diet Care

By Marianna Pells

There are now countless products available that promise long-lasting youth, but scientists agree that entering an anti aging diet care plan can do so much more. Different anti aging diet care methods have been formulated to combat aging, and the common ones include calorie restriction, eating certain foods, drinking lots of water and fasting.

For most people, calorie restriction is a good way to start. It is believed that minimizing calorie intake and maximizing nutrition could benefit many of us who want optimal health and a longer life expectancy. Findings have shown that calorie restrictive diets significantly help us live longer by preventing diseases and deficiencies that are evidently associated with aging.

Facts and figures tell us that people in their 50s who have healthy lifestyles and healthy food diet, limiting their calorie intake to a minimum, have normal blood pressures and have very little risks of heart diseases and hypertension. On laboratory experiments on animals, primates and rats also exhibit longer life span than those of others that are placed on high-calorie diets.

Furthermore, the Hormesis Hypothesis of calorie restriction suggests that controlled calorie intake lowers stress levels that cause aging. It explains that animals are able to live longer because calorie restriction induces a defense mechanism that helps them survive.

Although decreasing your calorie intake is already a big help in your fight against aging, having a healthy food diet which includes fruits and vegetables can help you even more. This is because fresh fruits and vegetables contain anti-aging properties. The following are more examples of food that can help improve your overall health and delay aging:

Berries - berries are good sources of flavanoids and antioxidants. These two anti-aging properties help prevent free radicals from attacking and damaging your cells, thus, delaying aging.

Avocados - Avocados contain potassium that regulates high blood pressure. It also contains monounsaturated fat which can help lower the bad cholesterol in your body as well as Vitamin E which is necessary in replacing dead skin cells.

Nuts - These are a good source of protein and minerals that maintain a healthy immune and digestive system.

Garlic - Garlics are known to reduce risks of heart failures.

Cruciferous vegetables - Broccoli, cauliflower and radish are a few examples of cruciferous vegetables that are said to prevent cancer.

One of the more common health practice that help delay aging and strengthens one's immune system is the hydrotherapy or drinking lots of fluids, especially water. Since dehydration causes stress-induced damages on our body's cells, replenishing our body adequately with the water it needs can effectively help flush out wastes and toxins and rejuvenates dehydrated tissues.

Fasting, or the avoidance of food and drinking only water for a certain period, is also known to help delay aging. Fasting with adequate hydration can help flush out toxins in our body, as well as help control our weight. Fasting can also result to healthier skin (due to fasting's detoxifying effect on the body), better bowel movement, better blood circulation and delayed cell deterioration. - 14130

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