Anti Aging Foods

Anti-Ageing Foods

Enhancing Vitality, Youth and Longevity

While you cannot completely avoid free radicals, as they are produced in the body as part of normal everyday metabolism, you can help protect your cells against their effects by ‘mopping’ them up with antioxidant nutrients. A healthy diet combined with supplements, plenty of filtered water and a balanced lifestyle will contribute to your cellular protection.

Diet and Anti-Ageing

There is little point in taking vitamins and supplements to combat the ageing process if your diet is unhealthy.

Drinking two litres of filtered water a day is of major importance in flushing damaging toxins from the body, supporting the kidneys and preventing dehydration. Dehydration is thought to contribute to senility by causing brain shrinkage. It certainly contributes to dry, unhealthy-looking skin.

Tea, coffee and alcohol should be reduced as they can cause dehydration. An additional cup of water should be drunk for each cup of coffee, tea or alcohol taken.

Green tea has many health attributes, benefiting conditions such as cancer, cardiovascular disease and dementia. A 2006 Japanese study (the first of its kind) found that consumption of green tea is associated with a lower prevalence of cognitive impairment (decline of brain function). No benefits were found for coffee. The researchers concluded that drinking two to three cups of green tea a day can reduce the risk of dementia by two-thirds.

A diet high in fibre and nutrients and low in saturated fats, additives and preservatives and refined carbohydrates, such as white flour and sugar, is desirable. Eat plenty of brown rice, good quality wholemeal bread, beans, lentils, organic fruit and vegetables and nuts and seeds.

Eating too much refined sugar speeds the ageing process and depletes the body of chromium, potassium, magnesium and zinc.

Saturated fats, found in red meat, dairy produce and fast foods, can block the pores in the skin and accelerate ageing.

Avoid hydrogenated fats. These harden your arteries and accelerate cell ageing.

For beautiful skin we need essential fatty acids found in fish, fish oil, nuts, seeds and avocado.

Blueberries and bilberries are superior antioxidants, especially benefiting our brains. Studies have found that blueberries are able to reverse the mental deficits associated with ageing. Add 50-100g of blueberries a day into your diet (frozen blueberries are just as good).

The nervous system including the brain can be nourished by oats, lecithin and essential fatty acids, including fish oil, nuts, seeds and avocado.

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