Healthy Aging and Your Diet: 5 Menu Tips to Help You Stay Young
Fear of aging and it’s inevitable conclusion inspires people to do some crazy and expensive things. Longevity schemes ranging from restrictive eating regimes, growth hormone injections to miracle supplements coax billions of dollars from America’s baby boomers every year. Peddlers of these products would have you believe that you can stop the biological clock for the right price.
[No matter what we do of course we are not getting out of here alive, but you can take steps to keep your body robust, strong, and nimble for as many years as possible - life is simply full of so many beautiful things to see and experience. There is a revolution in how we think about aging in this country.]
Along with exercise, avoiding toxins and reducing stress What You Eat can have a powerful effect on how you age. The goal isn’t to stop aging but to delay the onset and reduce the risk of age related disease. Right now the best way to do this is to eat the right foods and in the right quantities. The recent animal based study released about the restrictive diet experiment and it’s effect on age allegedly proves eating less adds years to your life- but how many years in humans has yet to be proven.
Also do you really want to deprive yourself of the pleasure of eating to add a few years? It’s something to think about. The authors of the study recommend a 30% reduction in the amount of food you eat, but I believe if you just ate 15% less you would see dramatic changes in your health and appearance.
I would rather take a proactive approach and focus on What You Can Eat that will help you live longer, smarter and stronger.
Here Is My Menu Ideas For Staying Young:
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Your Problems Solved! Fat Fighting, Libido Lifting Age Defying Advice.
Don’t you love that headline? I was inspired by a recent article in Men’s health on solving your problems in the various decades of life. It has always fascinated me that life’s complicated issues can easily be resolved in a two page magazine article. It’s the magic of the magazine medium. I think I have always been attracted to magazines for the escape they provide into their perfect little world. Regardless of whether it’s Men’s fitness, Martha Stewart’s living or the Family circle you can always find ways to improve your world and start fresh with some great ideas and inspirational pictures.
So here is my best shot at neatly re- solving your health and fitness problems as you venture through midlife .
Problem #1- We Start Losing Muscle And Gaining Fat As We Age.
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The Prime Directive – Leave No Regrets!
If you had only 3 months to live could honestly say you have no regrets about your life or the many choices you have made? I have been reading John Izzo’s book “The Five Secrets You Must Discover Before You Die” and the chapter called “Leave No Regrets” grabbed my attention. Why?
15 Years Ago I Came Face To Face With Death
I was diagnosed with a potentially fatal immune disease – and at the time there were no drugs to cure it. I wasn’t expecting a 40th birthday. I was shocked and dazed, despite all the years I had immersed myself in self help psychological counseling and spirituality, nothing prepared me for that kind of trauma.
Miraculously within a few weeks my perspective and outlook changed dramatically. Life was a rare and precious thing to be celebrated and enjoyed everyday. The disease was a gift that helped to change my perspective about life.
Right Before All This Happened I Was Going Through A Rough Time
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The Quest For Longevity – Are The Blue Zones The Fountain Of Youth?
Yesterday I was doing my early morning treadmill intervals while watching CNN. I normally listen to music and occasionally glance at the TV to make sure I’m not missing anything. This morning Anderson Cooper was reporting on Greek Island where hearty and healthy 96 year old men were having robust sex with women half their age! This looked interesting – was this the island where the fountain of youth was discovered?
[The Nicoya peninsula in Costa Rica is one of the Blue Zones - a real-life Fountain of Youth where people reach age 100 at rates significantly higher than the rest of us and on average live longer healthier lives.]
I plugged in and listened. The story was about the “Blue Zones” small geographic pockets inhabited by the world’s longest lived populations. Dan Buettner launched the Blue Zones Quests in 2005 to study and research these rare regions and to share what they can tell us about living longer and healthier lives.
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Midlife Crisis? Ease The Transition With Exercise
What is a midlife crisis? A midlife transition is a natural yet turbulent stage that happens to all of us between the ages of 40 and 60. Midlife transition can include:
- Discontentment or boredom with the lifestyle that previously provided fulfillment;
- Feeling restless and wanting to do something completely different
- Questioning decisions made years earlier about the meaning of life
- Confusion about who you are and where your life is going
[Middle age is a time in which adults take on new job responsibilities, re-asses where they are and make changes while they still have time.]
In his 1965 article from Journal of Psychoanalysis,Elliot Jaques coined the term “MIDLIFE CRISIS” referring to a time when adults realize their own mortality and how much time they may have left in their lives.
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