Our journey to healthy aging begins the very day we are born. After a while, we take our first baby step. Already our muscles, joints and bones have started the aging process. Yet, we continue to use our muscles, joints and bones throughout our life to balance our weight and carry out daily activities.
But unless we’re active, eat right, and take care of our health and well-being in a multitude of ways, the aging process can begin and progress much faster than we’d like.
Eating right is the foundation of good health. Throughout life we depend on soluble fats to reduce heart disease. We depend on nutrients that prevent high cholesterol. High fiber diets help to slow cholesterol levels that can result in blocked arteries. High fiber foods have been linked to potential weight loss and control. Foods that are high in soluble fat are more filling so we eat less of them and take in fewer calories.
Being overweight is certainly not healthy, but when trying to lose weight you should consult with your doctor first. Diet supplements can be harmful, even the fiber and so-called natural ones. Always proceed with caution.
Throughout our life journey we grow in several ways. We establish a home, a career, and often have a family of our own. But along with all our success comes a long list of things that we worry about. These stressors can also have an impact on the aging process. This is why it’s so important to learn appropriate and effective coping strategies. Living life requires that adjustments be made.
From the start our cells divide and replicate themselves; this happens numerous times throughout our lifespan. But studies have shown that each cell seems to have an internal clock that limits the number of times this division can occur.
It seems logical that we look to our ancestry to find a suggestion as to how long we’ll live. There’s even a theory called the “Genetic Theory of Aging” that suggests lifespan is largely determined by the genes we inherit.
Not surprisingly, there is some supporting evidence for this. A vast majority of people whose parents live a long life are more likely to also live longer.
But before we completely believe this theory, we need to question if other factors might also contribute to this similarity in the lifespan. It’s very possible that along with genes, lifestyles and food preferences, and even personalities are also passed from generation to generation in some cases.
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