I saw this on the news the other day and thought it was interesting:
Your Anti-Aging Checklist
Food: Antioxidants (5 servings a day)
In brightly colored foods like blueberries, sweet potatoes, broccoli, tomatoes and acai
Green and white tea (4 cups a day)
Red wine or Concord grape juice (1 glass a day)
Fiber (25 grams a day): In fruits, vegetables, beans, brown rice, whole wheat pasta, "100 percent" whole grain bread and chia
Omega 3 fatty acids: In roasted or ground flax seeds, walnuts, hemp, salmon and spirolina algae
Olive oil (1 to 2 tablespoons a day): Do not heat this delicate oil to smoking point or it will be damaged and lose its benefits
Exercise
Get your heart rate up (3 times a week)
Find your target exercising heart rate: 220 - [your age] X .80
Do strength training (30 minutes a week)
Meditation
Yoga, prayer or meditation (5 minutes a day): Releases nitric oxide, which relaxes blood vessels
Sleep and Sex
Sleep (7 to 8 hours a night)
Monogamous sex (2 to 3 times a week)
Vitamins
Vitamin D (1,000 units a day)
Calcium (600 mg twice a day) with Magnesium (200 mg twice a day)
DHA Omega-3 (600 mg a day)
Baby aspirin (2 a day, for a total of 162 milligrams)
Multivitamin (Take half in the morning, half in the evening): Pre-menopausal women need a multivitamin with iron and 5,000 units of vitamin A. Men and post-menopausal women need just 2,500 units of vitamin A.



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