Keep using your seat belt, start laughing aloud more often and more great ways to fend off aging.
Lifestyle choices, not genetics, have a larger role when it comes to how your body ages. We really should be treating our bodies like temples if we want to look better as we age. The more attention we pay to our health, the better our body’s “RealAge” will appear as opposed to our chronological age or our birth certificate age. If we are truly serious about our anti aging regimen, we will do certain things to ward off advancing age. Follow these ideas for a younger RealAge.
• Time to quit smoking and stay away from second hand smoke as well. Smoking will add eight years to your RealAge.
• Keep track of your own blood Pressure. If you maintain a lower blood pressure [115 / 75 mm HG], you can be as much as twenty five years younger versus the individual with a higher blood pressure [better than 160 / 90 mm HG].
• Moderate your stress level. During very stressful periods in your life, your RealAge could make you as much as thirty two years older than your driver’s license says you are. Forge out healthy social structures and begin to follow stress reducing tactics so you can cut thirty of those thirty two years of aging away that were due to stress.
• Have better oral hygiene – floss your teeth. Flossing and brushing teeth and gums will safeguard against periodontal disease. Avoiding periodontal disease will make your RealAge one and a half years younger than normal.
• Move it, Move It, Move It! Exercising for just a minimal amount – like maybe twenty minutes of walking each day, will make your actual RealAge almost five years less than normal.
• Wearing your seatbelt when in the car. Keeping yourself buckled in when driving while doing five mph of the posted speed limit can make your RealAge younger by 3.4 years of age.
• Get plenty of fiber. Eating twenty five grams of fiber each day can make your real age 2.5 years less than if you ate only twelve grams of fiber per day in your diet regimen. It could be that men might require more than twenty five grams of fiber daily. Keep track of it.
• It needs to be said once again – laughter is the best medicine! When you laugh you are decreasing your stress level, it strengthens your immunity and transforms you RealAge to as much as eight years less than normal chronological age.
• Continue to build your knowledge base as you age. Those people who continue to learn throughout their lives and carry on with intellectual stimulation have a RealAge of about two and a half years younger than normal age.
Fri, Jan 22, 2010
Anti Aging, Health And Aging, Lifestyle, Longevity