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How to look younger?
Simple health and beauty tips to delay aging
While there is no magic treatment for
making you young again, it is indeed possible to look and
stay younger if you take better care of yourself and
follow a few simple
anti-aging tips from Allure:
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THE BASICS: More than 90 percent of
aging
is genetic. But 10 percent, we can control with
sun
avoidance,
applying sunscreen without fail, and
not
smoking.
REDUCE STRESS:
Chronic stress wears you out continuously
over time, causing long-term injury to your body's cells.
In fact, little stressors of everyday life can be even
more damaging to you than a major trauma like losing your
job or
getting divorced. So, how can you avoid this damage
caused by everyday life? Starting a
strength-training
program can make your real age 1.7 years younger, and
calling a friend daily reduces the aging stress causes by
eight years. (Related article:
Reiki
for stress relief) |
 SLEEP: Regularly
skimping on sleep can age you. However,
regularly getting too much sleep -- more than nine hours a
night -- appears to age you by several years as well. The
optimal amount is six to seven hours for women and seven
to eight for men.
DIET: You can more powerfully
influence the skin through
what you ingest than what you put on it. Therefore, it's
important to have a diet rich in
essential fatty acids,
especially
omega-3 fatty acids.
ANTIOXIDANTS: No
matter what sunscreen you're wearing, the skin is
generating free radicals that break down
collagen
and cause
skin cancer.
Antioxidants provide
another line of defense against environmental
injury to the skin.
SEX:
Great sex can stave off all sorts of
age-related problems, from weakened immune systems
to chronic stress. It releases feel-good chemicals
like
endorphins and
oxytocin,
before and during
climax. Plus, it can
lower blood pressure and
increase cardiovascular health.
SUN: Believe it or not, a little bit of
unprotected sun exposure -- 10 to 20 minutes a day
can help your body produce vitamin D, which
decreases aging of your arteries and immune
system.
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