How A Healthy Diet Is Good For Anti Aging
Drink a fruit smoothie every day. Take any fruits that appeal to you – apples, oranges, bananas, grapefruit, melons or berries – and run them through a blender. Don't use a juicer, which extracts just the juice by separating it from the fiber. Leave the fiber in there; it's great for the digestive tract. Take full advantage of the aloe vera juice benefits by adding in some aloe juice. If you like, add some nonfat yogurt and cinnamon. Or make my Strive-for-Fiveade by blending one diced apple, two diced carrots and diced sections of one lime and one grapefruit with some water.
Replace one meat course a day with a vegetarian dish. One of my favorites is guacamole – mashed avocado. You can lace your guacamole with onion, hot chili peppers, garlic and lemon juice and sprinkle it with chopped nuts such as hazelnuts, macadamias, pistachios, cashews, peanuts or Brazil nuts. All of these nuts are rich in monounsaturated fatty acids, beneficial fats that are good for your heart, among other things. (Anyone who is carrying extra pounds, however, should forgo the nuts, which are high in calories.)
Use olive oil. Corn oil and other vegetable oils are polyunsaturated oils. Olive oil is a monounsaturated oil. There is a complex chemical explanation for how these differ, but all you really need to know is that there's good reason to believe that monounsaturated oils are a lot better for you – and the poly ones may even be one of the many acne causes. In salad dressings, replace polyunsaturated oils with olive oil.
Eat a wide variety of fruits and vegetables. Also eat a good selection of herbs, legumes, nuts and spices. These are the foods that our ancestors consumed back in the days before the invention of burgers, hot dogs, pizza, ice cream and all the junk we eat today. They ate more nutritiously than we do.
Make love regularly with someone you love. There's no explanation needed here except that it's good for you.
Go for a walk every day. Weather permitting, get outdoors and take a vigorous half-hour walk, well-protected from sunlight (ultraviolet radiation). Use the time to unwind and commune with the natural world. Contemplate the miraculous ecosystem around you and consider what it is that makes you – and it – tick. Respect, don't fear, the mystery of it all.
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