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Stay Beautiful and Energetic with Age
Filed Under (Women's Health) by admin on 28-10-2008
Tagged Under : Energetic with Age, Stay Beautiful
healthy Eating
Without the right fuel your body will sputter out like a Ford Pinto. It’s great being young and eating whatever you want but the fast metabolism doesn’t last. As you get older, your metabolism slows and eating like a teenager leads to a sagging gut. To keep the youthful body, switch to a mature way of eating. Here are some basic guidelines for an age-proof diet:
1. Cut the Junk Food – Cut it out of your diet completely. It serves no purpose. Junk food is merely salt, sugar, empty calories, and an assortment of artificial chemicals. Once you break the addiction and become accustomed to healthy snacks you won’t miss the junk.
2. Minimize Highly Processed Carbs – Sugars, pasta, and white breads are all examples of highly processed carbs. These foods give you a quick burst of energy that quickly wears off and leaves you burned out. They also have the highest calorie count of any food group. Staying lean is all about burning more calories than you consume. By substituting slow carbs like beans and whole grains you can immediately decrease the amount of exercise you need to stay lean.
3. Eat Lightly – Most people spend the day working at a desk. We don’t move around much, so we don’t burn many calories. As a consequence, you don’t need to eat that much. Think of your body as a car engine. The more fuel gets processed, the more wear and tear inflicted on the engine. Thus, the more you eat, the more wear on your body. Try to get avoid eating for indulgence. As Socrates said, “Thou shouldst eat to live, not live to eat.”
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