The Anti-Aging Diet

Nutrition is the main key to staying young and fit. It does not take much sacrifice to achieve a well balanced diet. All it takes is a little common sense and a minor change of of habits.

Starting your lunch with a variety of colorful vegetables can bring many different vitamins to your body. Nice green broccoli or brussels sprouts give you your vitamins A and D. Cauliflower or cream of potato get processed in the liver and transfer into vitamin A. These two vegetables go well with the combination of orange carrots, which are rich with carotenes. Beets could really add some lively color to your plate. They reduce blood pressure and fights anemia.

In the end just add some olive oil to top things off. Olive oil is known for having a list of healing properties too long to enumerate.

Choosing from a wide variety of salads, some pasta and rice, if possible alone or with seafood or white meat. Add some dairy products, which are good for combating osteoporosis. You want to make sure you don’t leave out the two or three pieces of fruit that you need to have each and every day, a small piece of bread and a glass of wine. The variety of these foods will keep you in good shape.

To maintain a healthy weight nutritionists say to try to eat five meals a day. Keep the five meals small in portion. The keeps your metabolism active and keeps your body from going into a deprived state. If you let your body go into the deprived state then your body will start to save all that you have consumed for that day, in anticipation of possible further starvation. If you let your body get into the deprived state it will make it much harder for you to lose weight.

The term antioxidant has become common knowledge and was coined many years ago. Blue fish is one of the richest sources. The antioxidants help fight against free radicals and strengthen the immune system.

Some of the things that can increase free radicals would be bad food, bad habits, such as smoking, drinking, pollution, stress and lack of exercise.

Doctors have come to know that bad cholesterol is known as the “black sheep”. They warn their patients of the risk of heart disease if it accumulates in their arteries.

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