Healthy World Digest, #18, September 2010

"Healthy nuggets of information to keep your motor humming."

Welcome to the 18th issue of our newsletter.

In this issue:

September, 2010

* Antiaging herbs

* Anti aging supplements

* Antiaging exercise

* Recipe: Pasta, kasha (quinoa), stew

Is it possible to "antiage?"

What can we do about aging?

Let's start at the beginning. Can we really turn back the clock? Physically? That is, is antiaging possible at this time?

No.

Pure and simple. No.

You can't turn around the aging process unless you mean by it that you can turn around some conditions that are reversible. But normal aging is not reversible.

What you can do is simply attain whatever potential you have at whatever age you find yourself in. But you aren't going to run as fast at 60 as you did at twenty. Not unless there was something wrong with you at 20.

Aging sets in motion several processes that we have no idea on how to reverse or even keep at precisely the same place.

For example, cells reproduce but reproductions are microscopically imperfect, for many cycles, over a lifetime. In time, as imperfect cells birth increasingly imperfect cells, signs of aging increase.

Also, as cells age, they lose progressively more fluid or water.

Infants are by and large water. Seniors are not. This fluid loss leads to all kinds of cosmetic and performance loss. Just compare the ashy skin of an octogenarian to the smooth skin of a toddler.

And yet, some people seem to be doing something right. And, possibly are a little genetically lucky. Dick Clark, for example. Until recently.

So, what are the basic things that you can do to reach your potential. Just a few simple measures to delay aging and seemingly "turn back the clock"

Let's start with the basics. Eat sensibly. Exercise consistently. Get some sunshine, every day, if possible. Drink lots of healthy water.

Here are more specifics.

* Antiaging herbs

How about a pair of antiaging herbs? .

Be sure to incorporate ginger and garlic into your life.

Ginger and garlic have so many benefits that they may address issues you have no idea about. They could help you ward off cancer, hypertension, arthritis, diabetes, infections.

Best incorporated fresh in foods or teas. But, if you have to take supplementally, that's fine too.

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* Antiaging supplements & vitamins

How about a couple of the best antiaging supplements?

I would go with two antiaging vitamins. A surprise here is that one of the vitamins is not what we ordinarily think of as the King of vitamins, vitamin C. Vitamin C is great. If you're over 30, you should likely take some.

But these Two supplements are even more vital for antiaging.

Vitamin E. The more we learn, the more is vitamin E viewed as necessary for basic cardiovascular wellness and for fighting age-enhancing free radicals.

It is hard to get enough vitamin E in foods to hold off aging-related processes so taking some via supplements would be wise as you age.

Even more vital than vitamin E is vitamin D. Healthy World has a whole section on vitamin D (presently being moved onto another server) and for good reason.

Vitamin D, really more of a hormone than vitamin, is increasingly being seen as a master nutrient that addresses virtually every major condition including mental health.

Taking in vitamin D from the sun, about twenty - 30 minutes daily, is one of the best things you can do for youth and vitality.

I've noticed I feel better and am happier on days I get some rays wearing only shorts and sandals.

On days you can't get sun, taking a vitamin D3 supplement is an adequate substitute.

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* Antiaging exercise

Exercise is of critical importance especially as cultures around the world become more sedentary. But what exercise is properly hailed as the best antiaging exercise?

Most exercise is antiaging but there is one in particular, or a particular group, that merits the designation of antiager.

Play. That's right. What kids and teens do all the time, at least before the internet, video games and cable TV.

Running, swimming, weightlifting, calisthenics: all good but if you really want to stave off aging, play active sports. Basketball. Tennis. A brisk game of softball or touch football. Martial arts would qualify too.

There are many possible reasons for the superiority of active games. My two cents.

Games force you to start-stop, like a type of exercise that's increasingly being seen as great for fitness & health -> interval training.

Also, games force you to perform tasks that you would never do under controlled exercise conditions.

A basketball rebound where your arms are stretched way up, while legs are scissored in an awkward leap. A sprint to third base punctuated by a slide. A football catch, quick pivot, run to sideline then downfield.

Now, we're not expecting you to quite do all of that at 70. Or, maybe so. But even older people could play a gentler game of tennis or a quickened game of golf.

Games also make you to go a little beyond yourself. Not timing your workouts or keeping your eye on some gauge, games let your competitive spirit to drive your activity to greater heights.

Finally, games are fun. Good for your mental health. No questionable reverie you see during cardio classes. Instead the pure joy of play.

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* Recipe: Pasta, kasha, stew

YouHoo! Lucky you. I remembered to include a recipe in this month's HWD.

A family dish, if your family is from Eastern Europe. I've enjoyed many a classic dish the Eastern Europeans call Varnishkas.

It's basically bow tie pasta, topped with cooked whole grain buckwheat (I get Wolff's Kasha) and topped with some stew, chicken or beef.

I looked at ways to make dish a little more health friendly and short of substituting, oh, beef flavored soyballs and broccoli for potatoes, it was kind of tough.

Come to think of it, broccoli doesn't sound too bad.

Well here was my twist. Buckwheat is healthy enough but its nutritional profile is very near pasta. So, the dish has too many carbs. I thought I'd substitute quinoa for buckwheat.

Quinoa is a low carb, high protein, high fiber super grain that's quite tasty. Really works well in this kind of dish. Can also make a good pasta substitute in other dishes.

Just make sure not to overcook or else it turns very soggy.

Well, hope you enjoyed this month?s issue of HWD. Are you working on your New Years resolutions? If so, great. If not, hey, there's 4 months left. Don?t give up.

Comments? Ideas? Feedback? I'd love to hear from you. Just reply to Healthy World Digest and tell me what you think.

See you next month!

Sal

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