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Change Your Diet & Stop the Aging Process

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Change Your Diet & Stop the Aging Process

Have you ever visited a nursing home and seen all of those “old folks” languishing almost immobolized and sometimes bedridden the last years of their lives? And haven’t you said to yourself, “I don’t want to end up that way!” Well read on then and find out what you can do now to help prevent is downward spiral.

Eat a wide variety of fruits & veggies. These are foods that our ancestors consumed back in the days before junk food. They ate more nutritiously then we do.

Drink 2 antioxidant herb teas a day. Antioxidants are substances that neutralize free radicals, naturally occurring oxygen molecules that damage the body and are thought to play a significant role in the aging process. Most fruits & veg. contain significant amts of antioxidants as do many herbs. If you’re a heavy coffee drinker, you might consider replacing 2 cups of coffee a day with herb tea.

Eat at least one big salad a day. You can use both wild greens – things like purslane and a variety of domestic salad vegetables, such as spinach and chicory. Green leaves are chock full of antioxidant nutrients that may help you prevent heart disease, cancer and other degenerative diseases that tend to come on as we age. Usually, the greener the leaf, the more antioxidants it contains, so fill up on those dark leafy greens.

Eat a few Brazil nuts & handful of sunflower seeds a day. The average Brazil nut contains more than the Daily Value of the antioxidant mineral selenium. Among nuts and seeds, sunflower seeds are one of the better sources of vitamin E. They are also cheap. If you’re watching your weight, don’t eat more than one oz. of nuts per day. Nuts are high in fat.

Eat some broccoli, carrots and celery stalks each day. They are high in fiber. Broccoli and carrots are also high in beta-carotene, the powerful antioxidant that the body transforms in to Vitamin A. Celery is high in apigenin, a chemical that expands ( Dilates) the blood vessels and may help prevent high blood pressure and stop the aging process.

Drink a fruit smoothie every day. Take any fruits that appeal to you and run them through a blender. Don’t use a juicer, which extracts just the juice by separating the fiber. Leave the fiber in there, its great for the digestive tract.

Replace one meat course a day with vegetarian dish. Try guacamole.

Use Olive Oil. In salad dressings replace polyunsaturated oils like corn & peanut oil with olive oil.

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