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Nutrition matters as you get older

Great nutrition is essential to aging gracefully. To age well you need to eat well. Eating the right kind of food will have an immediate impact on the way you look - and on the way you feel.

Energy, vitality and zest for life come from within - from a body and brain supplied with the essential nutrients needed for optimum performance.

Good nutrition is also vital for skin tone and muscle tone - every cell in your body needs essential nutrients to regenerate and repair. Eating the right things has a huge impact on the way your skin looks and how well it copes with the passing of time.

This part of the site is all about anti aging nutrition with the focus on good food eaten with enjoyment. Enjoying what you eat is such an important part of eating healthily.

You won’t find recommendations that you eat something just because its the latest anti aging wonder food.

On the other hand - there ARE articles on the glycemic index, the ORAC value of foods, trans fats and antioxidants - but written in straight forward English with practical tips to help you enjoy the best anti aging nutrition as part of your normal routine.

So start now - put the best food choices up there on your weekly shopping list - very soon you’ll find you enjoy what you eat, feel fantastic and look years younger!

Tomato ketchup is good for you

Whether you eat them raw, as ketchup, paste or a sauce on your pizza, the health and anti aging benefits of tomatoes simply cannot be denied. Tomatoes are one of nature’s superfoods.

The reasons why tomatoes are an anti-aging powerhouse can be summed up in one word - lycopene. Tomatoes contain more lycopene, one of the most powerful antioxidant vitamins known to man, than any other food stuff.

For antioxidants read anti aging. Lycopene belongs to the same family of chemicals as beta-carotene but is almost twice as powerful an antioxidant. Antioxidants are powerful neutralizers of the free radicals that often damage human cells, causing premature aging and many forms of cancer including lung, bladder, cervix and skin.

Lycopene also helps prevent cardiovascular disease, diabetes and osteoporosis. What’s more, tests are currently being carried out to discover whether the lycopene in tomatoes can have a beneficial role in the fight against cancers of the digestive tract, breasts and prostate - and the results so far are looking very promising.

But it doesn’t stop there. Tests have shown that the lycopene in tomatoes can be more readily absorbed into the body when the fruit is processed into sauce, pulped into juice, or pressed into paste and ketchup. Lycopene in all these forms is absorbed up to four times more efficiently than from raw tomatoes.

It really doesnt matter how you eat your tomatoes fresh, tinned, frozen or cartoned - the good news is you still get the anti-aging and health benefits of lycopene. There certainly aren’t many foods that can claim health benefits no matter how they are processed!

Strangely enough, lycopene isn’t a necessary nutrient — our bodies function perfectly well without it — but even so, it does increase our chances of optimal health and longevity and the benefits of tomatoes shouldn’t be underestimated.

So next time your kids want to drown their fries in ketchup, instead of cringing, be happy that they’re offsetting some of the health dangers of fried foods with the lycopene in tomatoes. In fact, when tomato products are mixed with oil rich dishes, the assimilation from the digestive tract to the bloodstream is even greater!

Trans fat - the anonymous killer

If you thought saturated fat was bad you may be surprised to know trans fat is worse - much worse. And what’s more you are likely to be eating it every day.

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New York City and trans fat

The war against harmful trans fat in food got hotter when the New York City Health Department became the first in the country to propose a partial ban on the use of trans fat in restaurant food.

Under a proposal offered for public comment, New York City restaurants would be given six months to switch to using oils, margarines and shortening with less than 0.5 grams of trans fat per serving.
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An apple a day keeps memory loss at bay

Far from just keeping teacher sweet, an apple a day has a whole new meaning for anyone interested in staying mentally sharp as they age. Recently published research suggests that drinking apple juice may protect against the cell damage that contributes to brain aging and memory loss.

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Juicing reduces alzheimer’s risk

A new study published in the American Journal of Medicine today shows that drinking fresh fruit and vegetable juices could reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s disease by as much as 76 percent.  Conclusive evidence that if you’re interested in the best anti-aging diet - juicing really is one of the best things you can do.

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Eat like a caveman

Because they allow our bodies to function in the way they were designed to in caveman days raw foods are one of the keys to a great anti aging diet.

Although our bodies have evolved over the many millions of years that we’ve been present on the earth, human beings were designed to live only on raw, living foods. Is it surprising then, that when we compare ourselves with wild mammals who survive on a raw food diet, we’re far more prone to disease?
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Acai berries take New York by storm

Acai berries are the hottest anti aging product around..

But you’ll only get them fresh if you move to the Amazon.  The fruit only last one day after they are harvested, so only Amazonian locals get to drink the acai berry juice like water - the rest of the world makes do with frozen Acai berry pulp as the basis for juices and smoothies or eaten just as it is - in dollops with yoghurt or muesli. 
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