Jeanne Louise Calment is, on record, the oldest person to have ever lived, passing away at age 122 (born in Arles, France, on February 21. 1875 and died on August 4, 1997). Her quotable quotes reveal a life well and vividly lived: “In life, one sometimes makes bad deals,” “I've only got one wrinkle and I'm sitting on it,” “ I took pleasure when I could. I acted clearly and morally and without regret. I'm very lucky.”
Modern scientific research is now revealing the secrets to a long and healthy life. Here's how you can add almost 40 years to yours;
Have Fun
In the words of the Blues artist, Duke Tumato, “Work is good, but it's not that good. When the work is through, it's time for me and you to get loose!”
We shouldn't need to be told, but it is vitally important to our health to have fun. We need to keep our working life, with all its pressures, in balance with a good social life. Don't become a workaholic or an obsessive parent.
Leave some quality time for yourself. Do whatever it is that makes you enjoy yourself. Don't be afraid to get out and have a few drinks if that's what it takes for you to really let go.
Most people have enough vitality ti handle small amounts of alcohol without doing long lasting damage, and it really is important to relax and let your hair down a but. We have all heard of the wise advice “Everything is moderation.”
With that in mind, we would like to advise a little “Excess in moderation.” As the Duke advises, “Let's get loose!”
Get Some Fresh Air
It seems that European nations, which suffer from some of the worst air quality, are losing two or more years in life expectancy because of the air pollution. These years are mostly lost to lung and heart problems. If two years sound minor, experts put it this way: Air pollution has the same mortality rate in Europe as road accidents.
Get out in nature as much as you can . Take the morning air as deeply as you can. Get up, raise your arms high, and expand those lungs. Whole systems of yoga are based on breath. At least do what should come naturally.
Be an Animal Lover
If the mind is the maker, it is the heart that sustains the mind and body. Without the help of love and contentment, all the dieting, exercising, breathing and mind control will be like loose change in a pocket full of holes. Love is the single most important elixir to long life.
Unconditional love is a real stress buster. Unfortunately, it's hard to get that from humans, so get a pet!
Move Your Bootie
The Epic study researchers stress one important point: The amount of exercise a person needs depends on how active he is throughout the day. If you're a pencil pusher, get one hour of exercise, such as swimming or jogging. If you're more active, 30 minutes of exercise a day will do. By exercising, you cold outlive your office mates by three years.
Aging
You might think this belongs in the “have no control” category, yet although everyone ages, not everyone grows old. You can be a vibrant, trim ninety-six or a lethargic, obese forty-five.
Use of colostrums, along with prudent lifestyle choices (including a nutritious diet, regular exercise, stress reduction, and other healthy habits), can significantly change how you age and prevent you from growing old. The growth factors in colostrum are especially effective as anti-aging agents.
Colostrum supplies growth factors as well as stimulating the endocrine system to keep producing its own supply of hormones. Research strongly indicates that the combination of growth and immune factors in colostrum work together to create a potent anti-aging effect, including tighter skin (resulting in a reduction of wrinkles), and regrowth of cells and tissue of organs that normally decrease in size with age.
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Real fitness experts know that losing that excess bodyfat for good will bring us a LONG list of benefits. Lower blood pressure, lower cholesterol, decreased risk of some cancers, and so on. Besides just helping us look and feel better, achieving true fitness also prevents bone loss, improves memory, eases the symptoms of menopause, and more! In short, regular exercise and bodyfat reduction will all years to our lives by minimizing so many life-threatening conditions.
Now, thanks to new research from Britain, we can actually say how many years we might gain by losing that excess weight once and for all! Researcher Tim Spector of St. Thomas' Hospital (U.K.) is part of the team that studied 1,100+ British women between 18 and 76 years of age.
"Telomeres cap the ends of chromosomes in cells and protect them from damage. However, each time a cell divides -- and as people age -- these caps get shorter, so decreases in telomere length have long been associated with the aging process.
Reporting June 14 in the early online edition of The Lancet, the British researchers found that telomeres of obese women.....were much shorter than those of lean women...... In contrast, lean women had much longer telomeres than moderately overweight women who, in turn, had longer telomeres than obese women." (Source: HealthDay News)
The researchers found that obese women aged an additional 8.8 years more than lean women (based on telomere length). Wow, 8.8 years!
By the way, this study also focused on smoking and how that impacted aging in women. Perhaps surprisingly, this study found that women who do (or have) smoked aged an additional 4.6 years. What's surprising about this finding is that obesity appears to cause more 'aging damage' than smoking, at least in some women.
There you have it, yet another reputable study proving that regular exercise can add years to our life (and life to our years!). The evidence is absolutely OVERWHELMING: maintaining a fit body through regular exercise will help us live longer!
Besides, we want to look good in a bathing suit this summer!
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