I could be wrong here but it seems every day a new diet or dieting technique is advocated to ensure a healthy life. But what I thought might be useful would be to put together a list of simple tips of foods and cooking techniques to avoid. I've called it "Seven Deadly Sins Diets Tips for Anti-Aging". A lot of this info you'll doubtless know but the fact you know it so often means you become blase` about it and totally ignore it.



1.Stop eating manufactured foods:- You body was not designed to live on pies, cookies and candies none of which offer any real food value anyway. Try to stick to natural foods which are prepared from whole foods (a potato not fries a chicken not a chicken nugget). If you think how food is prepared and where it comes from before cooking it (an how you cook it) you won't go far wrong.

2.Eat little and often do not stuff yourself: - Your digestive system is designed to digest food slowly so the bigger your meals the longer it takes to digest it is healthy to snack with the right foods between meals. In fact five well spaced out meals a day is much healthier and will help you live longer.

3. Stop eating so many refined foods:- If you suffer from bloating or constipation as you get older this is probably due to lack of fiber in your diet. Fiber helps the digestive tract work more effeciently and gets rid of waste which if retained can lead to illness, tiredness and lethargy and longer term health issues.

Avoid not drinking enough water:- If you have never heard this before I'm shocked. Our bodies thrive on water and suffer if they don't get enough. When we eat the wrong sorts of foods or drink alcohol we become dehydrated and our body needs to rehydrate. By drinking plenty of water we also flush the kidneys which helps the body naturally remove toxins and other noxious substances.

5. Stop eating bad fats:- Most of will claim we don't know the difference but who are we kiding we all now that we eat burgers because they taste better than grilled chicken. Fat which come from animals (saturated fats) and those manufactured (trans fats) are more harmful than fats from plants such as olive oil and avocado oil. Note: All fats make you fat and contain about the same number of calories.

6. Avoid a diet high in one food group only: - Many people are tempted to have a diet for example that contains no fat (which is hardly possible) or in excess in protein such as Atkins. No safe diet long term works unless it contains a balance of carbs, protein and fats and also needs an adequate amount of fiber. So if you going to eat a meal make sure you balance the amounts of protein and fat and carbs and you won't go far wrong. Consider just as much how you prepare food as you do what you are actually eating.

7.Avoid a sugar rush or a sugar low:- One of the biggets stresses you can put on your body is a massive sugar rush or a sudden sugar drop. In diabetic's these are refered to as hypo's or hypoglycemic attack.Many people believe this is just a problem for diabetics but it has been shown that these constant irregularities in blood sugar can lead to serious health problems and reduce your life expectancy. This can be quite easily prevented by combining less healthy foods (those with a low Glycemic index) with slower release foods. A good example we have all come across is meat and potatoes.

Few people understand that their diet and even how they prepare food can lengthen or shorten their lives and the best advice I can give is to avoid these 7 deadly sins of aging and you won't go to far wrong.