Anti Aging Nutrition

By Diane Rose

There has been a dramatic increase in research into how to slow down the aging process just as the first baby boomers are entering their 60’s. The outcome of the research often brings more questions than answers to anti-aging and weight loss.

Listed below are some of the ways to slow down or hold back the aging process:

As we been hearing in the media that eating fat is bad for you, one would come to the conclusion that eliminating fat from your diet would be the optimum for your health. Well, consider this, eliminating fat from your diet could make you age faster.

Why? Because your body needs essential fatty acids (EFA) to help your body process food you consume so to release the energy needed for your life processes. EFA is responsible for transferring the oxygen throughout your body and for regulating the nutrients in and out of the cells along with other functions it has.

Nutrients from plants also play a major role in anti aging. Fruit, vegetable, and plant extracts have an impressive display of chemical components called phytochemicals or phytonutrients, that are greatly beneficial to skin health and beauty.

There are many classes of phytonutrients, and antioxidants are one of them. Antioxidants work by supplying an extra oxygen molecule to those molecules that are missing one. Those molecules that are missing an oxygen molecule is called free radicals. Anti-oxidants neutralize the free radicals that would otherwise damage your skin cells which causes aging more quickly.

Vitamin E is an anti-oxidant, therefore, a preventive measure in slowing the aging process. Eating nuts, seeds and oils that are rich in vitamin E protects you from the aging effect of these free radicals by neutralizing the free radicals before they can cause damage.

Perricone Prescription is a new diet on the anti-aging scene. It’s a way of eating that is supposed to soften wrinkles, firm the skin, reduce inflammation in the body, and increase energy in addition to Iossing weight. Dr. Perricone claims that people will see the anti-aging effects of this diet in just 3 days.

Perricone says eating foods that cause inflammation in the body speeds up the aging process. Some of these foods are sugar, pasta, bread, bananas. The items of Perricone’s diet are anti-inflammatory foods such as salmon and blueberries.

So regardless of whether you do the Perricone Prescription or another healthy way of eating, you should do what it takes to take good care of your body. You will improve your health and feel better.