The Anti Aging Lifestyle

 

Can you really add years to your life by making smarter food choices, and smarter lifestyle choices, than you practice today? Research recognizes that people who live into their 90’s and beyond, have many habits in common.

Let’s look at some of the major similarities: • Were active through out their lives. • Exercise, in the sunshine; • Ate from the land, where they live; • Drink lots and lots of water, clean and pure; • Did not go to the Doctor, at least not very often; • Did not take medicines, at least not for very long; • Enjoyed work, family and home. Low stress levels; • Had hobbies, and played. Fun. Enjoyed their life.

So, let’s look at each of these areas:

a. People who lived into old age, 90’s and beyond were active most of there lives. They worked, for hours at a time, they didn’t sit around watching TV, reading, talking on the phone, sitting at a desk or checking email, nor many of the things we consider work today. We live a very sedentary lifestyle. But the body needs movement, activity. Many worked the land, growing food, raising animals, worked on the railroad, worked in building trades. And so, their lungs were strong, their muscles were strong and the lymph system was active. The strong heart pump could send blood to the toes and back to the brain in seconds, carrying life sustaining oxygen. And most of the time they worked outside in the sun.

b. They ate from the land where they lived; they didn’t eat food that was brought in from other countries, Chile’, China, Japan, and other far away lands.

Foods brought from far away are treated so that they can still be fresh on arrival to your store, and to your kitchen. The ways that the foods are treated, the chemicals used to preserve the freshness, and radiation to eliminate pests and parasites, cause cancer, heart disease and allergies in millions of people.

c. They drank lots and lots of water. They didn’t drink a lot of juice, Kool- Aid, sodas, coffee, and tea, energy and power drinks. They drank water. All these other drinks came along to make money, and add to our desire for convenience. We pick up these drinks not even realizing that they have caused more heart attacks, strokes and diabetes, than any other one thing we eat or drink. There is no substitute for water.

The body is 80% water and the brain is 90% water. The body needs water to fulfill every process, every second of our existance. From metabolism, to cell division, detoxifing via the lungs and skin, for muscular movement, and chewing and swallowing. Everything the body does requires adequate hydration. Kool-aid, juices, sodas and energy drinks can not give the body the water it needs to do the work it does.

d. Persons and cultures who lived a long life, did not embrace what we call western medicine. As they lived off the land, in times of illness, they sought relief in herbal remedies, fasting, and rest. For thousands of years man used natural measures to treat illness and injury in the most natural ways possible. Today we use drugs made of chemicals which add another layer of toxins to the body over and above the illness or injury the body is attempting to fight.

e. People who live a simple life, have less stress, and learn to manage stress in ways that affirm wellness. The center of life was family, and work, so life management was simpler. A strong belief system made it easy to remain committed to the family and the lifestyle. They rested well at night, going to bed early, and arose early to keep their life’s obligations.

Today our lives are over committed and many times fragmented with too many commitments and little time to keep them all. After a while we loose focus and start to drop the balls.stress.

f. Many persons who live a long happy, productive life, had hobbies. Reading, writing, sewing, gardening, painting and countless other crafts that brought joy, peace, and sometimes even an additional income to the family. The thing they made time for and slipped away to enjoy, after work. Every one has a talent that needs to be fostered and brought to life. It’s one of the ways we glorify our Maker. Expressing that one-of-a-kind talent we each possess.

Could living into the ninth decade of life and beyond be as simple as adopting a simpler, less complicated lifestyle, with clean water, locally grown foods, more rest and personal time? A closer commitment to the Creator, family and ones own self? A simpler, less complicated life. Imagine That!

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