When it comes to turning back your body’s clock, the power is in your hands (not in a Botox syringe!). Yet another study has confirmed this. Researchers found that the combined benefits of maintaining just four healthy habits in middle-age was equal to being 14 years younger. That means a 50-year-old could be living in the body of a 36-year-old by following these strategies:
1. Get moving. Yeah, we know we say this ALL the time. But every week, you need three types of physical activity for the best antiaging benefits: walking, strength exercise (using weights or resistance tubes/bands), and stamina builders (activities that raise your heart rate, such as jogging, biking, swimming, and aerobics).
2. Pack your diet with fruits and veggies. Count the colors at every meal. You want at least three real colors -- white and brown don't count! Mix it up so you get all the health benefits that plants offer.
3. Be heart smart about alcohol. Moderate drinking makes your arteries 3 years younger (though we don’t recommend drinking for women with a history or family history of breast cancer or for either gender if there is a family history of drug or alcohol problems). What’s moderate? Half to one drink a day for women and one to two for men.
4. Kick the habit. A good damage-control plan might bail out a White House press secretary, but it won’t get you out of this one. Your only option is to stop -- or have the people around you stop. Spending an hour in someone else’s smoke is like smoking four cigarettes yourself. The payoff is huge: After 5 years, a former smoker can regain 7 of the 8 years lost to smoking.
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