6 Important Areas Of An Anti Aging Diet

The best way to determine whether or not an anti aging diet works is to go to your next class reunion.

Take a close look at all your classmates, and then ask them about their diet.

How to Interview People About Their Diet

You’ll need to know some questions to ask to determine what works. Here are my top six questions that always give me insight into any anti aging diet:

1. How often do you eat protein foods?
2. Do you eat a lot of fruits and vegetables?
3. How often do you eat sugar?
4. Do you have cabinets filled with processed foods?
5. When you cook, do you use margarine, vegetable oil, olive oil, or coconut oil?
6. Do you eat to satisfaction or stop eating before you are full?

The bottom line on aging is that for anti aging benefits to appear, diet must be attended to. A normal American diet frankly will leave you looking old and decrepit long before your time. Using plastic surgery to fix your face may take off some years; however, the rest of your body will show the signs of aging and it will still be obvious you are aging – not so gracefully.

Determine What’s Working and What’s Not

Here’s a little more info on the answers you are looking for to these questions:

1. How often do you eat protein foods?

Protein foods such as eggs, dairy products, beef, bison, lamb, pork, chicken, fish, shellfish, turkey, duck and wild meats are loaded with the proper strings of amino acids needed for your skin. Eating what your body needs for protein is absolutely essential for the production of collagen in skin that gives skin its plumpness.

About 60 grams protein a day is considered a minimum, but levels up to 150 grams per day are often needed, depending on how tall you are and whether you are male or female, active or inactive. Sixty grams is equal to about 9.5 ounces of protein, where an egg equals about one ounce, an ounce of the meats mentioned above is equal to one ounce, and an 8-oz container of yogurt is equal to 2 ounces.

By increasing your protein in your meals, your diet automatically becomes an anti aging diet.

2. Do you eat a lot of fruits and vegetables?

One of the best dietary habits you could ever start is juicing. How often would you eat a pound of carrots? Not very often! Yet you can get the nutritional benefits of that whole pound of carrots in one 8-oz glass.

By adding 2 cups spinach leaves, a big handful of parsley and 3 ribs of celery, you’ve now consumed about 10 servings of vegetables in one day. This gives you a huge nutritional advantage, and your vitality increases within three days. Try it.

In the meantime, make a mental note on what eating few vegetables (and fruits) in the diet does to the skin of your friends.

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