Posts Tagged ‘inflammation’

Wrinkle Prevention Is Easier Than Treatment

Sunday, September 12th, 2010

There are endless advertisements out there suggesting you buy the lastest, greatest product for obscene dollars guaranteed to have you looking ten years younger in a few days time.  Sounds good, but now let’s getreal.

1)  If your Mother or Grandmother got wrinkles early in adulthood, chances are you’ll have a tendency to wrinkle sooner than you’d like.  Heredity does play a role.

2)  Do you work in an extremely cold, windy, or even sunny environment?  Your skin can suffer becoming dry and flaky or even worse.  These conditions can cause wrinkles much sooner than if you work in a less hostile environment.

3)  It is said that people who live in high humidity areas wrinkle less because there’s more moisture in the air.  High humidity is good for the skin.  Have you noticed that people who live in tropical areas almost always have gorgeous skin even during their advancing years?  They truly represent simply anti-aging.

4)  Don’t take hot showers.  The hot water will cause you to lose natural oils needed to protect you from dry skin.  You will need to do more moisturizing and exfoliating so the new skin will better take in moisturizers.

5)  Medical conditions such as diabetes can cause dry skin, causing you to wrinkle sooner.  Smokers often have more wrinkles too, because researchers report that smoking depletes vitamin C causing wrinkles.

6)  Make sure you’re hydrated by drinking at least 5 to 8 glasses of purified, non-chlorinated water every day.

7)  Pay particular attention to your facial expressions.  Frowning brings on furrows and lines, and those around the eyes are particularly difficult to smooth out.  Tension causes you to frown, speeding the formation of lines, so get a handle on the stress by trying deep breathing exercises and/or yoga.

8)  Your diet is of great importance.  Go for some “superfoods”, including wheat grass, barley grass, chlorella and spirulina.  These foods make up a powerhouse of antioxidants, minerals and vitamins that aid the body in preventing and reducing wrinkles.  Healthy skin structure can be achieved by eating more Omega 3 fatty acids such as those found in fish.  Chlorella will bind heavy metal toxins such as mercury and remove them.  These toxins can be a burden on your liver, cause allergies, inflammation and wrinkles.

9)  Exercise!  Even if you only have enough time to walk around the block, take a few minutes just for yourself and your body will benefit.

Wrinkles to some degree will come eventually, but by adding some of these preventive measures, you should live younger longer and enjoy your youthful skin and energetic body.

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Have a fun and successful day,

Vida

White Sugar, Brown Sugar, Sugar Everywhere

Friday, December 4th, 2009

Brown and wite sugar cubeEveryone wants to stay young. The great news is that today there are great anti aging programs and products that can help us stay young. However, if you’re trying to avoid aging, you may actually be contributing to the aging process if you’re eating a lot of sugar.

Yes, sugar may be making you look older faster. There are many new studies out there today that show that sugar contributes to the process of aging. Findings have been showing that consuming sugars on a regular basis can cause the body to start an inflammatory response. This response actually makes you age faster and it can even lead to various diseases, including Alzheimer’s cancer, heart disease, and arthritis.

Dermatology studies have even shown that not only can sugar be causing inflammation responses within the body, which makes aging occur, but when you eat sugar, it could even be causing more wrinkles to occur. Glucose is able to attach to proteins within the body, and the proteins that keep your skin looking young and healthy, elastin and collagen, are two proteins that are the most susceptible to sugar.

So, if you are consuming too much sugar, you’re actually making your body age faster. Not only will that affect the way you look, but the consumption of sugar can make you more at risk for age related diseases as well.

The good news is that you can help to combat the problem with sugar. One option is to stop eating sugar, but if you can’t totally eliminate sugar from your diet, supplementing with antioxidants can help. Some studies are showing that making sure you get plenty of antioxidants can help to block the inflammation response that occurs when you consume sugar.

By trying different combinations of sugar to sugar substitute such as Stevia can save you not only calories but cuts your sugar intake by a high percentage. That’s a good thing for your anti-aging program.

Have a fun and successful day,
Vida