- It is the disease commonly associated with the elderly (heart disease, arthritis, cancer, and so on) that cause the physical and mental anguish observed in aging. These diseases are preventable, and aging itself is not painful.
- There is no typical aging that applied to everyone. Many avoid the classical symptoms (and so can you) while others exhibit diseases of aging well before their advanced years.
- Components of our body really don’t age. DNA is constantly being replaced by identical new DNA. Minerals, water and blood are also continually being renewed. These components constitute over 70 percent of our body. Our consciousness, intelligence, and personality do not age in the same way as matter. Certain single called organisms like the amoeba never age at all.
- The real cause of death is not aging but the diseases commonly associated with aging.
- A healthy lifestyle is far more important in exceeding your longevity than being the child of long-living parents. You will only add about three years to your life expectancy if your parents lived to be over eighty.
- Our body’s harmones (DHEA) can be adjusted through consciousness techniques (hypnosis and meditation) to greatly slow down and even reserve the aging process.
Cholesterol
- There are two one-way messengers that circulate cholesterol in our body; LDL (Low density lipoprotein) transports cholesterol from the liver to the tissues and organs; HDL (High density lipoprotein) moves cholesterol back to the liver.
- By increasing the HDL carrying cholesterol back to the liver and less LDL carrying it out to the blood vessels, you can halt the process that ages the heart and arteries.
- By lowering your LDL below 100, your body can actually start pulling deposited fats and cholesterol out of your blood vessel walls. This will actually reverse the damage accumulated by your heart. Your blood vessels will appear smoother in six months as well as become more elastic and open. This is youthing.
- Here are some important facts about cholesterol :
- Men’s Average HDL = 45 mg/dl
- Women’s Average HDL = 55 mg/dl
- The higher the HDL, the lower the risk of heart disease.
- A HDL level lower than 35 mg/dl is a major risk factor for heart disease.
- Some scientists and clinicians use the ratio of total cholesterol to HDL as an index of risk for heart disease. The lower the ratio the lower the risk.
- Total cholesterol level divided by HDL for men should equal 4.5 or less.
- Total cholesterol level divided by HDL for women should equal 3.6 or less.
- Your total cholesterol count should be less than 180 mg/dl if you are under 20 and below 200 mg/dl over the age of 20.
- A boarderline high risk level is from 200-239 mg/dl total cholesterol counts over 240 mg/dl are considered high risk for a heart attack.
- Blood cholesterol reductions of 15 to 25 percent, achievable by diet alone in just 2 weeks, can reduce the risk of heart disease by 30 to 50 percent.
- The American Heart Association recommends that no more than 10 percent of your calories should come from saturated fat. Thus, if you eat, 2,000 calories a day, you should eat no more than 200 (10 percent of 2,000) calories of saturated fat.
- To reduce saturated fat in your diet, substitute fish, poultry, lean meats, whole grain brands and cereals, fruits and vegetables, an dried peas and beans for foods high in fat.
Fiber for a younger heart
Fiber assists in youthing by preventing our body from absorbing the wrong fats from foods.
The Japanese eat more fiber per capita than any other country. Their death rate due to heart attacks is one seventh that of the United States.
A high fiber diet can lower triglycerides and cholesterol by one fifth to one third, slowing down the aging of your entire cardiac system.
The following are good sources of fiber to slow down the aging of the heart :
Apple, grapes, Oats, oat bran, Beans,
Potatoes, squash, Barley, lentitles
Oranges, lemons, Chick peas, Split peas seeds.
grapefruit. Peas.
Fish for a younger heart
Fish contains the best fats, the Omega-3 fatty acids, among them EPA (eicosapentaenoic acid) and DHA (docosahexaenoic acid). Among their many positive effects, they;
- Make your blood platelets less sticky
- Reduce several chemical steps that lead to arterials lesions
- Reduce LDL levels
- Reduce overall cholesterol
- Reduce blood pressure
- Minimize inflammation
Reducing your blood pressure for a younger heart
Controlling your blood pressure will reduce stress to your heart.
One of the best ways to do this is to eliminate salt from your diet; onions, herbs, and garlic are flavourful substitutes for salt. Eliminating or at least reducing the alcohol you drink is also beneficial, as eating more fiber.
Keeping your immune system young
- You will dramatically reduce your cancer risk by eating more fiber and less fat, by eating more mineral and vitamin-rich fresh vegetables, and by moderating your alcohol consumption to a reasonable level.
- Reducing fat will assist the phagocytes and lower the free radicals that cause cancer.
- This will help the immune system function more efficiently. These vegetables contain a chemical called indole that helps prevent colon cancer.
- You can make your own Antiviral substances from natural food products by following these steps ;
- Purchase from a health food store PC-55 lecithin, a high-strength soy-lecithin concentrate. (Keep refrigerated).
- Add 1 tablespoon of PC-55 to 1 cup of orange or other fruit juice.
- Let mixture sit 5 minutes, then blend until well mixed.
- Add 1 generous tablespoon of olive oil or peanut oil, and blend thoroughly for several minutes.
- The cocktail is best taken in the morning on an empty stomach.
- Drink this cocktail every three days and refrigerate the vegetable oil. This is not recommended if you have high cholesterol or for patients who have cancer.
For a younger brain
To boost mental alternations, reduce anxiety, improve memory, and stabilize moods in general, include the following in your diet :
Dried beans, Seaweed, onions, Green leafy
peas, shrimp, Whole grains vegetables
oysters, and (including the bran) dark chocolate.
Seafood seeds, nuts, fruits.
- These foods are rich in copper, manganese, and iodine, the brain nutrient minerals.
- There are minerals (heavy metals) such as mercury, cadmium, lead, and aluminium, that may be toxic to your brain, lead poisoning can cause mental sluggishness and even retardation.
- Cadmium can lead to significant memory loss and diminished mental function. Both aluminium and cadmium are thought to be factors in Alzheimer’s disease.
- You can avoid memory and other mental problems by making sure you don’t.
- Prepare foods from aluminium pots or use aluminium foil.
- Acidic foods such as tomato juice, lemonade, vinegar, and orange juice can draw the aluminium into them.
- Take antacids you buy over the counter. Aluminium is one of the main ingredients.
- Live in area with significant levels of environmental pollution.
Miscellaneous diet tips to slow down aging
Eat zinc rich foods.
Eat egg plant, yogurt and onions frequently to combat cholesterol.
Eat apples and citrus fruit often and supplement the die with soyabean lecithin to fight cholesterol.
Drink an extra 8 ounce glass of water each day.
Exercise for the stomach
Lie on your back with knees bent and your feet securely tacked under a chair Extend your arms over your head, next to your ears.
Swing your arms towards your knees while raising your head and shoulders off the floor.
Touch your hands to your knees (right-right, left-left).
Lower your head and shoulders to the floor as you return your arms to the starting position.
Repeat steps 1-3 and twist to the left.
Repeat steps 1-3 and twist to the right.
Repeat steps 1-5 from 2-10 times.
Exercises for the middle and upper back
Lie on your stomach with a pillow under your hips, hands behind your head and your feet under a chair.
Slowly raise your head, shoulders, and chest as high as possible and then lower them immediately.
Repeat step 1 and twist to the left.
Repeat step 1 and twist to the right.
Repeat steps 1-3 from 2-10 times.
Walking
The benefits of walking are :
- It promotes more restful sleep.
- A reduction of tension and stress.
- Weight reduction. You burn up 320 calories per hour by walking 3 kms. per hour. For every 11 hours of walking you will lose one pound (3500 calories equals one pound).
- Walking improves circulation and is good cardiovascular exercise.
- Improves the ability to take oxygen in.
Tips for walking
Walk with you head erect and your stomach in.
Walk on your whole foot.
Avoid walking when it is very hot or cold.
Let your arms swing freely.
Begin with a 15 to 20 minutes walk and walk at a slower pace for the first several minutes as a
Warm-up
Use the best running shoes you can afford. Buy these in a store that specializes in atheletics. Select shoes that are about one quarter inch longer than your longest toe. The sole must be flexible and the heel counter (the part that wraps around the back of your heel) should be firm.
Narcotics
- Alcohol is a drug, make no mistake about it.
- Current evidence suggests that moderate drinking won’t hurt us, unless we are allergic to alcohol or have a tendency to alcoholism.
- Statistics suggest that light drinking decreases our long-range risk of heart attacks.
- All reports demonstrate that chronic heavy drinking can result in chronic gastrointestinal malfunction as well as extensive organ damage to the liver, pancreas, heart and brain.
- Illegal drugs such as marijuana, cocaine, heroin, and others are all considered bad for us, though herein is regarded as the most toxic and addictive, as well as the most menacing to other members of society.
- Using these drugs will cause you to age faster.
- Just thinking about the possibility of getting busted; by the authorities for possession of these illegal substances is enough to add a few gray hairs to your head.
- If you want to maximize your sex life cut down on your alcohol intake. The more alcohol consumed, the more problematic sex becomes. Alcohol lowers the testosterone level in men, creating potency problems; in women it delayed orgasm.
- Add more zinc to your diet. Zinc is helpful in the maintenance to male sexual health and vigour. According to Georgetown University researchers smoking and drinking depletes our ability. Liver, sunflower seeds, oats, nuts, and cheese are good sources of zinc.
- Exercise regularly, the more active you are, the greater will be your vigour and interest in sex, both mentally and physically.
Smoking
One fact that the public sometimes misses is that the major cause of decreased life expectancy as a result of smoking cigarettes is not cancer; it is heart disease.
Some interesting longevity conclusions made from recent studies regarding smoking are given below :
Smokers die faster than nonsmokers, at every age and with the increased number of cigarettes smoked and smokers die at a greater rate from every disease.
Non smoking wives or husbands of cigarette smokers have a lowered life expectancy.
One pack-a day smokers have twice the chance of nonsmokers of dying from age fifty to sixty. Two pack-a-day smokers have three times the chance.
On the average, smokers die about eight years younger than nonsmokers.
Memory
Emotional depression, bereavement, illness, loneliness, economic worries—all can contribute to a chronic case of the blues and wipe out the memory. A dull life easily can lead to depression and to mental deterioration.
To enhance your memory, also eat the right ‘Brain Food’.
Deficiencies of certain vitamins can cause disturbance in brain function. For example, a mild thiamine deficiency can bring about memory disturbance inability to concentrate, insomnia, and a lack of initiative. Sunflower seeds, dried soyabeans, kidney and other beans all contain thiamine.
Here is a list of some lifestyle changes you can make to facilitate your longevity.
- Make sure you get exercise every few days.
- Take time each week to do something special just for yourself.
- Learn and use time management techniques in your daily life.
- Stop smoking.
- Learn to use relaxation exercises instead of alcohol or drugs to unwind before sleep.
- Don’t bring work home at night.
- Take up a hobby you enjoy.
