Diet is the number one cause of disease in our country today. High blood pressure. High triglycerides. Type two diabetes. High cholesterol. So many of these conditions can be tied directly to our diet. Lots of lean protein. Lots of vegetables. Medium amount of fruit. And a lower amount of complex carbohydrates like bread, cookies, crackers, rice and pasta. I recommend my clients , if they want to lead the healthiest life possible, to eat only organic foods, or as many organic foods that are possible.
Most major supermarket chains are starting to lean towards offering a lot of organic options, so the price points have gone down dramatically over the past 20 years. Number two. Attacking your shadow side. Now this might seem weird, coming from a guy who loves to look young, feel young, eat healthy, exercise daily and do the work he loves.
But this year-old can tell you firsthand, that until I attacked my addiction to alcohol and drugs years ago, I would not have the energy, or look as young as I do today if I continued drinking on a regular basis. Look at your Darkside. What habits do you have, alcohol, smoking, fast food, gambling, etc.
But far from it. The Darkside. Work with A counselor or a coach starting right now! It is a bromide borne out by old photos. Just check out images of your grandparents or great-grandparents depending on your age and notice their stooped and soft bodies, their lined faces and how they seem anchored in their chairs when they were barely pushing What a contrast with vigorous, gym-going sexagenarians of today! Recent studies comparing populations born in different decades have looked beyond these surface impressions to nail down actual physical and mental differences in the ways we are aging.
This research has identified particular areas of improvement. But these gains are not across the board, and they appear to depend on social, behavioral and economic factors. A pair of new studies from Finland— one looking at physical aging and one looking at cognitive aging —strikingly demonstrates some of the details of generational change.
The two age groups were assessed in and and in and , respectively. The beauty of this work is that both birth cohorts were examined in person at age 75 and again at 80 with the same substantial battery of six physical tests and five measures of cognition. Most cohort studies look at a narrower range of measures, and many of them rely on self-assessments.
The later-born group could walk faster, had a stronger hand grip and could exert more force with their lower leg. Such metrics are reliable predictors of disability and mortality. On cognitive tests, the later cohort had better verbal fluency naming more words beginning with a K in three minutes , clocked faster reaction time on a complex finger-movement task, and scored higher on a test matching numbers to symbols.
But not everything changed across the generations: measures of lung function were surprisingly static, and there was no improvement in the short-term-memory task of recalling a string of digits—possibly because rote memorization has been de-emphasized in school and in daily life in recent decades, the researchers suspect.
Many of these findings fit with other cohort studies. Judging by TV commercials, right when we get out of baby diapers, we have to prepare ourselves to get into adult diapers. And look how young the people are in the ads for Viagra-like products, hair dyes, and arthritis medications. It's as if Madison Avenue is saying that it's over for you once you're past the grand old age of There is one area in our society in which being older is not held against you.
And it's the one area that maybe it should be — presidential politics. Being young can actually hurt a candidate. We hear things like, "Is he too inexperienced? It's ironic that just when people might be getting a bit more forgetful, when they may have a few more health problems, when they have less and less of a connection to America's youth, that's when they are considered the right age to lead our country.
Americans don't seem to want any hand without liver spots to be on that dangerous, red button. But for the rest of the population, ageism is a problem.
People employed in television and other fields no longer worry about being blacklisted. But they fear being "graylisted.
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