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Some words about Anti-aging and Disease Prevention

The aging process is for the greater part no mystery anymore. It consists for a great part of daily damages 
done on the macroscopic, tissue, cellular and genetic levels. These add up as the years are passing. These 
damages have specific causes like oxidating agents, sun beams, mechanical wear and tear, psychological 
stress, lack of some nutritional components and too much of others, like fat. 

Another component of aging is the reduction of the telomere chains at the chromosome ends, as each cell 
division occurs. When these are shortended enough, cells stop dividing. However, the body has means to 
repair these ends again, with an enzyme called telomerase. The rapidity of the aging process depends on 
lack of efficiency in this repair process. The above mention aging causes also slow down this repair process.

The factors causing aging, also causes other diseases like cancer and coronary heart disease. 
Both aging and these diseases can in great extend be prevented with the knowledge possessed today, 
and the damages can in great extend be reversed. The components to achieve this are:

-Adequate dayly food containing whole cereals, peas, beans, vegetables, fruit, fish, mushroms, fouls and 
seafood, and with just a moderate amount of red meat. 

-Just a moderate amount of fat.

-Ideally most fat one eats, should be of the type mono-unsaturated. One also needs some poly-usaturated 
fat of the types omega-3, and omega 6, but not too much of omega-6. The consumption of saturated fat 
should be very little.

 - In order to achieve right fat balance, most of the fat supply should come from sources like olive, 
peanuts, canola, fish, nuts, sun-flower, etc. Then you will get a good balance between mono-unsaturated 
fat (olive, canola, peanuts), poly-unsaturated fat of the omaga-3-type (fish) and poly-unsaturated fat of 
the omega-6-type (sunflower).

-Just a very moderate amount of butter, soya oil, margarine, corn oil and palm oil. A high consumption 
of these fat sources gives you too much saturated fat and poly-unsaturated omega-6-fat.

-Just a very moderate amount of sugar, refined flour or refined cereals.

-Do not add more salt to the food than you need. Most people consume too much salt. 
However, some salt is needed. If the weather is warm and you are in high activity, you need more salt 
than by cold weather and low activity. Prefere sea-salt, beacuse of its content of valuable minerals.

-Just a moderate consumption of tranquilizers/stimulants as alchohol and coffeine, but in moderate 
amounts these contribute to slow down the aging process.

-No smoking or tobacco usage. 

-Supplements of specific nutritional components like vitamins, minerals, 
lecitin and some essential fatty acids.

-Adequate training, that both gives a muscular load, work up your condition and stretches 
out your body. To stretch out, yoga-exercizes are ideal.

-Adequate rest and stress-reduction. Daily meditation is a method of achieving this. 
Natural relaxing agents or spesific tools for meditation or relaxation may also be useful.

-Supplements of specific anti-aging agents like anti-oxidants or human growth hormone.

-Use of spesific anti-aging agents to apply upon the skin surface.

-To protect the skin against excessive sun exposure.

The amount one needs of nutritional supplements, like vitamins and minerals, differs very much 
according to a person`s health condition, work load and exposure to environmental stress. 
A person having a poor digestion, doing high performance sport or being exposed to a high 
amount of environmental stressors, may need more than a person in an average situation.





About the author:
by Knut Holt -

k-holt2@online.no

Knut Holt is a international internet marketer and author with a focus on health items.

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