The aging process starts from the day we are born. A person may not realize it but we need to work on staying fit and healthy everyday. In the end, you’ll feel and look younger all during the aging progression.
You can do a lot to maintain your health and feel good. Watch your diet and continue activities throughout the course of your life. Your diet has a lot to do with aging and health. Vitamins, minerals, and other nutrients you need to stay healthy are in your diet. If your over weight try getting yourself into an exercise program. Walking is a great way to get involved in a program. Start out walking gradually and work your way up to 12 to 15 miles by walking two or 3 times a week. Walking raises the heart rate, triggering it to perform its function. You can loosen the tight and stiffness in your legs and besides loosing weight with diet it will help to tone your muscles. Combined weight lifting with your walk agenda but don’t over work, yourself because it will make your muscles sore. Along with your new walking and weightlifting program trim down your diet and take supplements to make up for the vitamins you are cutting out. Exercising will burn up some of your vitamins too so make sure you take enough but not too much of the supplements. If you are not sure about the amount to take, consult you physician.
As you build new activities, you will be meeting people and that always gives you something new to talk about to help keep the depression away. Throughout your endeavor to maintain your health, you will require encouragement and support. Seek support from family, friends, or people with the same goals.
As we grow older high cholesterol becomes a health issue with most of us. Your new walking program is a good start to lowering your levels. 2 miles a day, 3 times a week will help you to lower your cholesterol by helping you lose the excess weight you’ve put on in the last couple of years. If walking doesn’t seem to be helping to level out your cholesterol, try eating seven nuts. The combination of both will sometimes bring it to a balance. Be sure your doctor knows what your doing as these things continue. Grease is good in nuts and olive oil to help lower the blood pressure and blood sugar as well. Try changing your diet and eat more whole grain foods while you cut back on the meat you love so much. Instead of using, spreadable fats use olive oil and canola margarine. As a snack…sneak in those nuts:
Has your blood pressure gone up in your older years? Try including three servings of dairy products with low fat in your diet. Calcium, magnesium and potassium are good to help lower that blood pressure.
Cancer is always a threat to us young or old so we need to start early on trying to help prevent it. Vitamin D is a good vitamin to take along with getting 10-15 minutes a week of sun with no sunscreen on. Watching your diet and taking vitamins, helps reduce the risks of getting colon, breast, or ovarian cancer.
Ovarian cancer for women is very common, yet women have the power to lower their risks. Green and black tea 2 times a day or even eating an apple or grapefruit will help. Anything high in antioxidants is beneficial. It's a good idea to mix up your meals every day so you don't get bored eating the same things over and over. Mixing up what you eat in a recipe or on your plate the nuts, maybe some black-eyed peas, whole grain wheat bread or cereal and add a little peanut butter on that bread.
Changing your foods that you eat may not stop you from getting cancer but it is known to lower the risk and help prevent it. Keep in mind that you are not a doctor, so make sure to get checked out often.
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