Our dream is to age like a fine wine. We want to feel better, have more energy and even add more years to our lives. Recent studies show that stress causes physical changes in the body that can accelerate aging. Surges of the hormones adrenaline and cortisol cause blood pressure to rise and the heart to beat faster. These days, when our stressors seem unrelenting (a steady stream of job pressures, traffic jams, money problems), chronic doses of adrenaline and cortisol take a heavy toll on our physical and emotional health. "Sixty to 90 percent of all doctors' visits each year are related to anxiety, depression, obsessive anger and hostility, insomnia, high blood pressure, heart attacks-all problems caused by stress," says Herbert Benson, M.D., author of The Relaxation Response and a founder and director emeritus of the Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine in Boston.
Besides skipping sugar-because really, who would want to do that for a lifetime? there are secrets to beat the constantly-ticking aging clock? Try these 10 smart strategies that are natural age-erasers.
1. Exercise: Exercise can help prevent weight gain and weight loss.
2. Avoid caffeine: it effects does not last in the body and it possess danger to the inner parts of the body if taken constantly.
3. Adopt better postures: when sitting, sleeping, resting, make sure your body is in a good position.
4. Eat healthy meals: Take food that rich in vitamin c, omega 3 fatty acids, they help stabilise your mood, maintain bone strength and help prevent visible signs of aging by reducing inflammation in the body.
5. Banish boredom and isolation at all cost: rekindle the flames with your partner. Discover a new love in the form of a mental or physical pursuit. Take up a training, join a book club, start a running program. Do whatever it is that make you feel energised and alive.
6. Take red wine: A ground breaking study shows that mice on a high fat diet supplemented with resveratol, a substance found in the skin of grapes, had longer average life span than those not given the resveratol. Resveratol clearly reduces the risk of diabetes, liver problems in mice,leading to a significant decline in obesity related deaths.
7. Bite a superfruit: Take pomegranate juice, current studies showed that they are more beneficial than other fruits. They had been found to lower cholesterols and blood pressure and can also protect the skin from damages caused by UV rays.
8. Slather your skin supplements.
9. Do mental aerobics.
10. Have good sex and good sleep
