Friday, April 30, 2010

Look Youthful All Your Life


While we're all a bit afraid to get old, a tiny part of us knows there are a ton of creams, supplements, and treatments that will restore our youth when the time comes. But it's important to understand what the process of aging looks like, so that when the time comes, you can understand how to go about staying healthy and young-looking for as long as you can.

Several things happen as we age, and while its a time for creativity and fulfillment, the physical aspects of old-age aren't as endearing if we're not vigilant about our lifestyle decisions. Prolonged exposure to the sun, smoking, heavy drinking, eating foods high in fat and cholesterol, are only a few things that make us more susceptible to age-related problems like high blood pressure, diabetes, heart and kidney problems. Also, our body's ability to prevent disease and react to high stress situations becomes less and less probable. Our postures change, our foot arches flatten, and weight seems to be on a steady increase until about 60 in both men and women.

So how can we prevent the seemingly uncomely effects of old age? As aforementioned above, the first thing to change is our eating and drinking habits. But when that's not enough, it doesn't hurt to seek out products with healthy ingredients. Resveratrol, for example, is an ingredient found in grape pulp and red wine that actually exhibits powerful antioxidant properties from plant compounds called polyphenols. In addition, Resveratrol has been known to decrease the likelihood of Alzheimer's, a loss in memory as amyloid, a substance in the brain, builds up and causes brain cells to die.

Resveratrol can be found in grapes, wine, and an anti-aging supplement called Resveralite. Doubling as a weight loss pill because of the green tea extract and hydroxycitric acid that comprises it, Resveralite decelerates blood sugar and cholesterol.

The amount of Resveratrol in Resveralite, as noted by the New York Times, "makes you look like a trained athlete without the training".

Of course, speculations abound about every new anti-aging supplement, but the ingredients in Resveralite are all natural, and its ingredients have kept Europeans living longer for centuries. So while it's important to stick to a no-smoking, low-fat, moderate-sun-bathing life style, there are supplements out there that will help us preserve our youth, and keep us healthy all our lives.

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