Healthy Diet Helps You To Stay Young
Here’s a reason why you should start eating well RIGHT NOW: A healthy diet makes you look younger. I mean, what’s the point of being slim if you’re looking haggard. If you ask me, I’d rather be a little bit plump, but healthy and young-looking than thin and haggard. Of course, I want to look slim, healthy and young looking as I get older. And now I can - and so can you. A brand new report has shown that . Science Daily have published a great report on how to look younger and live longer.
Here’s some of the highlights from the article:
- We tend to ignore the most basic nutritional essentials and focus on “exotic fountains of youth” - I must confess to being guilty of this one. I’m always more interested in a magic, exotic treatment than the usual boring advice to eat my vegetables
- We age because mitochondria - the substance that energises your cells is in decay - With age what happens is the mitochondria decay. So you look in an old rat or an old person, the mitochondria are less efficient and they’re putting out more side product. Byproducts of mitochondrial burning are oxidants. Just the way iron rusts or fat grows rancid, we’re all going rancid from these oxygen radicals coming out of our metabolism.
- Not having enough micronutrients will age your mitochondria faster - only do you need fuel in your diets — the fat and carbohydrates — it’s also 40 different micronutrients. These are the vitamins and the minerals and the essential fatty acids that you need to keep all your biochemistry humming along.
- We are consuming less vitamins and minerals - because we are filling up on high calorie junk food instead. And as a result, we are hungrier because our bodies crave the nutrients that we are not eating. (I think this is the most important point, especially for dieters)
- Vitamin and mineral pills dont’ have enough magnesium and calcium - instead, you should eat some yogurt every day, low fat, and maybe take a little extra magnesium. You need to eat fish a couple of times a week because fish has DHA, which is a long-chain Omega-3 fatty acid and 30 percent of the brain is made of DHA.
Why should you take heed of this advice? The answer is simple. It’s from Bruce Ames, a biochemist and world leader in aging and nutrition research. He is 77 years old and fit and healthy. Ames is very accomplished. For example, in 1998, Ames won the prestigious National Medal of Science, and in 2001 he was awarded Oregon State University’s first $50,000 Linus Pauling Institute Prize for Health Research. He is currently a senior scientist at Children’s Hospital Oakland Research Institute in California and scientific advisory board member of Juvenon.com, which markets an anti-aging supplement he developed.