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Aging Gracefully
Four Tips for Better Choices, Healthier Aging
by Miriam Figueroa W
hat is normal aging?
Conventional
wisdom tells us that we start the slope towards decline as early as age 40. This decline is
“Healthy, graceful aging is more
attainable than you think.”
supposed to include putting on weight, becoming weaker, moving slower and popping more pills. It is estimated by
the time we reach our mid 60s the majority of us will be taking at least five prescription medications each day. This deterioration of our health shouldn’t be the norm. We have allowed the bar to
be set shamefully low for ourselves. Did you know that more than 70 percent of premature deaths are related to the
lifestyle choices we make? Perhaps it’s time for a wake-up call. Healthy, graceful aging is more attainable than you think. If each of us tracks far enough upstream, we will discover that we aren’t broken or defective. Instead, what brought us to the present, to our current state of health, was a series of choices. It was lifestyle choices. It was food choices. So we first had a choice problem; the health problems followed. Fortunately, every moment provides the opportunity for a better choice—it is never too late to focus on your health.
Here are my four simple tips to better choices and healthier, happier aging:
1. Improve Your Nutrition A healthy lifestyle consists of real food with a variety of enzymes and nutrients. For many people, it also includes adding natural supplements that will help rebuild and strengthen your immune system.
2. Be Active, and Get Adequate Rest
Research continues to show that living active lives results in healthier bodies and more nimble minds as we move through the second half of our
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