Want to age slowly and live a longer life – Follow these 3 things

Want to age slowly and live a longer life? 

There are a couple of things, one is food for sure. What you eat is what you show on the outside. The second is what and how you think… if you are more positive, if you are happier then your skin and your cells are happy and you don’t age as fast as you would if you were unhappy or stressed. “The third is sleep, which is super important. These three things determine your youthfulness.

1.Eat a healthy, balanced diet

“A well-balanced diet can provide all the nutrition you need to fuel your daily activities. The total daily calorie intake should take into account the level of daily physical activity.Staying young and healthy is easier when you eat a healthy diet of mostly fruits and vegetables supplemented with lean protein and whole grains. These foods provide key nutrients that support healthy aging inside and out. Fruits & veggies also boost your intake of important phytonutrients that help defend against damaging free-radicals.

• Avoid heavy drinking, overeating sugar, trans and saturated fats.
• Increase the amount of good fats, whole grains, and Omega 3s for optimal health.

The more natural and less processed you eat, the slower you age because then you’re giving your body the nutrients, vitamins, the anti-oxidants which help to form the collagen and maintain the elasticity of your skin. That way, your cells break down and repair faster rather than just breaking down and not repairing because of the unhealthy food.

How can young professionals include that in life who prefer to grab a bite while on the go ?

The whole point is that you need to be organised as to what they would eat the entire day, and depend less on packaged and outside food. So if you are organised and carry proper meals for proper timings and instead of eating chips or having tea or coffee, if they pick up fruits or have more of coconut water with malai or have a handful of nuts that would help them give them the nutrients that their body needs. You just need to be mindful about what put in their mouth at every point of time.

 2.Take It Easy… be more positive,

Eliminating stress, sleeping well and sleeping enough, kicking the butt and curbing alcohol will also make a difference.

Staying young means stressing less. Set aside a small chunk of time every day, about 10-20 minutes, to relax, meditate, or just breathe deeply, while letting worries melt away and helping yourself look younger naturally.

A long list of studies have found that stress , including conditions such as untreated depression, social isolation, and anxiety can speed up cellular aging; stress shortens essential DNA components called telomeres which are linked to overall health, lifespan, and individual aging rate, and when they become too short, cells can no longer reproduce, causing tissues to degenerate and die.

It’s the continued stress and our body’s natural, evolutionary response that causes all sorts of health problems, including weight gain.

Tea, coffee, alcohol and cigarettes should not be consumed at all. These things can wreck your whole youthfulness. The internal and external smoke and toxins can actually make your skin look dull and dead, leading to wrinkling and ageing faster.

“These addictions are something which everyone needs to get over for a happy and a healthy life.”

3.Sleep on Your Back

The way you sleep can affect the way wrinkles develop on your face. Just as when muscle movement against collagen, like laughing or frowning, can promote its breakdown, “sleep lines” can be formed through nightly application of pressure as we lie with our faces against the pillow. Sleeping on your back instead of on your stomach or sides alleviates pressure on the face, helping to prevent these wrinkles.