Friday, October 07, 2005

Startling New Evidence: You Can Slow the Aging Process

By David Kern



What if you could actually slow your rate of aging, and live healthier longer, simply by eating certain foods? U.S. Government scientists now say it’s possible.

Floyd P. Horn, then Administrator of the scientific research arm of the USDA, broke the exciting news in February 1999.

“Young and middle-aged people,” said Horn, “may be able to reduce risk of diseases of aging -- including senility -- simply by adding high-ORAC foods to their diets.”

I don’t know about you, but I find that statement tremendously exciting: “simply by adding high-ORAC foods.”

Buddy, Can You Spare Some ORAC?

Unfortunately, most Americans have no idea that there may be a simple solution to preventing- or at least postponing- the ravages of decline, disease, and feeble old age.

ORAC stands for Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity. It’s a test developed by the USDA and Tufts University to measure the antioxidant speed and power of foods and supplements. The ORAC test is quickly becoming the accepted standard for comparing antioxidant capacity.

And as you may know, oxidative stress, or free-radical damage, is implicated in all diseases associated with aging, including cancer, heart disease, stroke, Alzheimer’s disease, and diabetes- a short list of the 5 major killers of Americans.

She Told You So

An easier way to understand ORAC is to look at particular foods. Let’s take spinach, for example. We all know spinach is good for us. Mom said so. And Popeye.

When USDA scientists tested spinach, they found it has an ORAC value of 1260 units per serving. So spinach qualifies as a “high-ORAC food,” which may help slow the aging process.

It turns out Mom was right. She knew it would keep you healthier. But she probably never told you that spinach may keep you younger- to actually help you age more slowly.

Sound the Alarm

We have an epidemic of age-related disease in America. The statistics are shocking. The CDC (Centers for Disease Control) in Atlanta now says that 80% of elderly Americans have at least one chronic disease. And 50% have two or more!

And the ORAC tests help explain these terrible numbers. The truth is, our diets are woefully deficient in nutrient-dense, high-ORAC foods.

USDA researchers estimate that you need somewhere around 5,000 ORAC units in your diet every day to get the ORAC benefits that slow aging and prevent disease.

But they also estimate that the average American gets only 1,200 ORAC units a day. This means that most of us are eating our way to one or more of the chronic diseases of aging.

Is it any wonder, then, that the diseases of aging are out of control? The average American gets less than the antioxidant (ORAC) value of one serving of spinach every day.

So what do you do if you hate spinach? No worries! There are many foods that rank high on the ORAC scale. Many delicious fruits and vegetables have high ORAC values: prunes, raisins, blueberries, blackberries, kale, alfalfa sprouts, and Brussels sprouts are all rich in ORAC. Just find the ones you like, and eat more of them.

Vitamin C, a common health supplement, scores 1,890 units per gram. (For comparison, spinach delivers 12.6 units per gram) And that’s another very good reason to supplement your diet with antioxidant vitamins.

But if you want to get serious about a true anti-aging diet, there are specialty food ingredients available that deliver far higher ORAC values than ordinary foods and vitamins.

The Next Level of ORAC

Scientists are now testing “superfood” antioxidants that can give you astonishing ORAC protection- much higher than ordinary foods and vitamins.

One of these new generation ORAC foods, derived from the skin of immature apples, tests as high as 13,000 per gram on the scale- over 1000 times more powerful than spinach!

Anti-aging enthusiasts are now using these super-antioxidant ORAC foods to get maximum protection for aging and related physical and mental decline.

Why? Because high-ORAC foods may slow aging. And the next-generation ORAC food ingredients are showing remarkable health benefits in human and animal studies, against the same diseases associated with aging- heart disease, cancer, diabetes and Alzheimer’s.

So let me ask you:

If you are growing older

If 80% of older Americans have at least one chronic disease

If the USDA says that high-ORAC foods may slow aging

Isn’t it time that you consider adding a lot more high-ORAC foods to your diet?

Or maybe, you didn’t get the memo.

David L. Kern is a health researcher and specialist in anti-aging nutrition. “There is now solid scientific proof,” he asserts, “that we can actually slow the aging process.” Discover the latest breakthroughs in high-ORAC anti-aging nutrition at http://www.applepoly.com/anti-aging.

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Thursday, October 06, 2005

Anti Aging Tips & Techniques

By Balaji B

Aging occurs due to the growth of the tissues and other elements in side the body. Even the cells grow and die as time passes "there was nothing to stop these changes" but this sentences is no more existing. Man has found ways to slow stop and even reverse the growth of human bodies. Anti aging is a process in which a person can stay young for a long time.

Anti aging techniques slows down the aging process so that the person stays young and fit. The main part of the anti aging techniques is the nutrition that is taken by a person in his lifetime. Healthy food habits are the key to anti aging techniques.

Creams have become the widely used products among the products used for anti aging. There are sub types in the creams they are natural creams, artificial creams and the last important one is herbal creams. Herbal creams are basically preferred by some people because every one believes that herbal will not give any side effects. But be careful that before using the treatment consult with your doctor or with your beautician so that it doesn’t give negative results. There are separate treatments for every individual. As both men and women are equally interested in this anti aging treatment we should be able to carefully differentiate the treatments.

We should also be careful in using these treatments because supervision is a must for several treatments. And in some cases diagnosis is needed to know the condition of the patient. Only by knowing the condition treatments are started because there are separate treatments for every individual depending upon their health. If you follow all these safety measures you will lead a very good young and energetic life as you have lived in your youth.

Nowadays people are interested in using natural anti aging treatment. A mixture of collagen cream and the active ingredients from plants is a familiar natural anti aging treatment that works perfect on wrinkles in the skin. There is another one eating good vitamins rich food is a very well known anti aging treatment. As we have seen many treatments about the anti aging we should not get confused about using these treatments. These treatments are helping us to grow younger.

There are many types in anti aging treatment. One type is anti aging medicine it includes improving the skin texture and moisture of our body. The anti aging treatment can increase energy levels, sexual performance, immune system vigilance and they also work on the age related growth factors. The anti aging treatment also helps to re-contour the body, restore muscle tone, and reduce the fat in body. The results through the anti aging treatment are wonderful changes in biochemistry which enables the look and make you feel that you have got back your youth.

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Eleven Benefits of Green Tea

By David Chandler

Green tea is known to provide 10-40mg of polyphenols and has antioxidant activity greater than a serving of spinach, broccoli, carrots, or strawberries. Studies show that green tea contains antioxidants, polyphenols, theanine, as well as a wide variety of vitamins and minerals. Green tea is definitely good for your body.

Enhances Health

Tea is known for its incredible power to prolong life. In recent research into green tea, results show its power in preventing disease as well.

Prevents Cancer

The death rate from cancer is known to be significantly lower for both women & men in Japan. Why is this you may ask? As much as 5-6 cups daily are consumed in areas that produce green tea, making it the main beverage to drink. This suggests that the main ingredients of green tea (tannin, catechin); in sufficient amounts lower the standard mortality rates for stomach cancer.

Restricts Blood Cholesterol

There are two types of cholesterol, one is "bad" cholesterol (LDL), and heavy accumulation of these in tissues can lead to atherosclerosis. The other is good cholesterol (HDL) that prevents accumulation of excessive "bad" cholesterol. It has been proven and demonstrated that green tea catechin restricts the excessive buildup of cholesterol.

Controls High Blood Pressure

High blood pressure is a serious burden on the vascular system and is known to cause heart disease, stroke, and other cardiovascular diseases. Green tea is known for lowering blood pressure.

Lowers Blood Sugar

Green teas given to diabetes patients cause a decrease in the blood glucose levels. Green Tea has the capability of lowering blood sugar. The sugars and carbohydrates in our food are digested mainly in the duodenum, where it is converted to glucose and then absorbed into the blood stream.

The agent that regulates the intake of blood sugar into tissues is insulin. Diabetes is characterized by lack of insulin or not the body not using insulin properly, which does not allow proper absorption of glucose into tissues and leads to a high blood sugar level that must eventually be excreted into urine. If this high concentration of blood sugar continues for a long period, it will affect the vascular system and cause serious diseases including arteriosclerosis and retinal hemorrhages.

Suppresses Aging

Oxygen plays a key role in metabolism, but can also be an unhealthful agent. As a free radical, oxygen in the body can corrode cell membranes, which will damage DNA and the fats. This then leads to diseases such as cancer, cardio-vascular disease and diabetes. Lipid peroxide created by fats combined with oxygen tends to build up in the body and create aging.

Consumption of antioxidants such as vitamins E and C promises longer life, and we already know that green teas are rich in those two vitamins.

Refreshes the Body

Green tea caffeine taken in proper quantity stimulates every organ in the body and clears your mind. The small amount of caffeine (about 9 mgs of caffeine) present in a normal serving of green tea can stimulate the skeletal muscles and smooth the progress of muscular contraction.

Deters Food Poisoning

It has long been known that green tea has the ability to kill bacteria and is known to deter food poisoning. Treating diarrhea with consumption of strong green tea. Green tea is a powerful sterilizing instrument for all sorts of bacteria that cause food poisoning.

Prevents and Treats Skin Disease

Soaking in green tea has been successful as a treatment for athlete's foot. Bedsores and skin disease can be prevented or healed by using a green tea bath.

Stops Cavities

Green tea contains natural fluorine and is thought to aid in the reduction of cavities in schoolchildren. It has been known for some time that small amounts of fluorine can strengthen teeth and help prevent cavities.

Fights Viruses

Green tea catechin and theaflavin, which are both present in black tea, have a strong effect on the flu virus. It is also thought that the anti viral capability of green tea catechin may have some beneficial effect on the AIDS virus.
Additional Information

  • Green Tea drinkers appear to enjoy better health.
  • Catechin is 100 times more potent than vitamin C and 25 times more potent than vitamin E.
  • Green Tea drinkers have half the risk of fatal heart attacks. Compounds in the tea called flavonoids stop blood platelets from forming clots, much like aspirin does.

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Slow The Aging Process By Watching What You Think

By Beverly Marshall

How to stop the old aging process is the ultimate age old question. Overtime, the cells of our body grow and die. There is nothing that can stop this process totally, but we are finding out so much more about the body and aging that we can slow down the ravages of time. So much of anti aging is a mind body connection. If you want to keep as young as you can in your body, you should stay young in your mind as well. Energy will follow what you focus on with your mind; so if you are worrying about how tired you are feeling, or how stiff your body is, or you are counting the wrinkles or gray hairs on your head, your energy and the energy around you will give you more of what you are focusing on. I propose to you that one of the first tips for anti aging is to stop thinking about aging; and start focusing on healthy you are, how good you feel and how great you look.

Another easy tip for anti aging is looking at the foods you eat. I remember when I was a kid in the 50’s and 60’s and there was almost no fast food or processed foods in the grocery stores. I remember when there were no TV dinners and you couldn’t find a box of Meat Helper anywhere. It was also rare for us to be overweight too. I didn’t have any friends that were overweight and you probably didn’t either. Eating too fast, and not eating enough of the good unprocessed foods such as fresh fruits and vegetables is one reason we are more unhealthy and age quicker than years past. If you aren’t getting enough vitamins in your diet, you might consider taking supplements. There are a host of vitamins on the market today so ask your pharmacist what brand is recommended and trusted for potency.

We women are looking for the magic wrinkle cream or body lotion that will erase wrinkles. If you find one that erases those wrinkles will you let me know? Some creams are better than others and some have natural herbs in them. Some doctors tout clearing up brown spots and reducing the signs of aging with retinoids. These retinoids are the most documented of the anti agers. It all goes back to prevention and sunscreen instead of trying to clear up the skin damage when it is already done.

It is also well known that stress will make you sicker and age you more quickly than just about anything. You have heard the expression “I just aged 5 years from that experience” or “I just lost 5 years of my life”. What can you do to live a more stress free life? If you can’t pick up and move to the country like I did, you have to find ways with exercise, meditation, leaving the work at the office, listen to classical music on the commute and so on to de-stress. Here again, stop a moment when it is quiet and focus on how relaxed and de-stressed you are. See yourself very calm and happy and everything is happening just as it should. If you have never tried doing that, I suggest you try just slowing down for a brief moment and see how good that feels. “Stop and smell the roses” as the saying goes. Sleep is also critical so don’t try to be super anything and take care of yourself first. If you aren’t taken care of, how can you possibly give back something you don’t have?

If you really want to slow the aging process, focus your attention on health, your family, friends, and how good it is to be alive. Be grateful for what you have in life and wake everyday knowing everything is playing out exactly as it is supposed to. Try not to “sweat the small stuff” and monitor your reactions to things. It usually isn’t the event that stresses us; it is how we react to the event. If you don’t let the event take control you will remain calm and your body won’t get thrown into a fight or flight mode. Whenever you can keep your blood pressure normal you are ahead of the game of life.

Beverly Marshall is a successful freelance writer, certified Aromatherapist and Feng Shui consultant. Her many articles offer guidance, suggestions and common sense ideas to change your life. If you are interested in products and information regarding alternative medicine, vitamins, osteoporosis, menopause, essential oils, insomnia, anti aging, dry skin and more; her many articles can be found at http://www.alternative-medicine-4u.com

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Sunday, August 21, 2005

Seven Reasons Why You Might Take Hoodia

By Christopher Ruane

Good health is all too easily taken for granted until something unexpected happens in life. A drug that solves a typical health problem is seen as a minor miracle for its sufferers. Today's medicinal world is littered with supposedly high benefit drugs that proclaim a lot about obesity reduction but do nothing to cure the disease state.

We are still a long way from being able to provide cures for illnesses. What if at this time, a medicine with effective remedial measures for checking and reducing obesity was discovered?

It is time to wonder at an old practice from the ancient tribe of South Africa that used Hoodia the miraculous drug and thus unfolded its miraculous quality. It is astonishing to note that thousands of years of their past practices, is becoming extremely relevant in our world today.

With Hoodia Gordonii, there may come a decrease to the production of synthetic weight-reducing medicines. The extract of the plant Hoodia, is currently emerging as the greatest weight-reducing drug with no current known side effects. There are several notable reasons why Hoodia is becoming THE ideal alternative for treating obesity.

It is a natural ingredient while the synthetic drugs are usually made from complex chemical reactions that may generate harmful side effects quite apart from the primary benefit. On the other hand, Hoodia products are a concentrate of the extract collected from the mother plant. This is the first reason why Hoodia scores over other drugs, though of course even natural medicines can have problems too.

It is effective in reducing weight notably. It works on the appetite of an individual and minimizes it. Now, when normal food intake falls down, the body starts to burn the stored food to release adequate energy. Extra food is stored in the subcutaneous layer as fat that gives the extra weight overweight people carry around.

When Hoodia extract is taken, the appetite reduces and the brain gets the feeling that it has taken food. The body thus has to burn out the extra fat to procure the energy needed for its various works.

Obesity is also caused by an excessive and unbalanced eating habit. When you take Hoodia, the urge to eat dies down so one can get out of the habit of eating the excess calories that causes the unwanted obesity. It reduces food intake.

However if you eat just junk food anyway and no proper natural foods you are quite likely to be overweight and have other problems than obesity such as diabetes and high blood pressure.Taking Hoodia supplements won’t change that alone unless you change your eating habits towards healthy foods.

Hoodia has a positive effect on the mood of an individual.
It is currently termed as a foodstuff rather than a medicine.
Many medicines raise the body temperature and increase the rate of perspiration. This can often result in further complexities. Hoodia is thought to be completely safe from such effects.

The production of Hoodia is done under Quality Control measures and care is taken to assure good quality.

Thus, Hoodia is the most authentic remedy for obesity; efforts are on to enhance its utility further.

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Saturday, August 20, 2005

Protect your Hair and Skin while you Sleep

Most women today treat their hair in a manner that will cause some damage. Colour, highlights, chemical perms, bleach, blow drying, curling tongs and straightening irons – all leave their mark. But did you know that one of the most damaging things for you hair could be the cotton pillow you sleep on at night.

Whilst your cotton pillowcase may feel soft, cotton is highly absorbent causing it to draw moisture from your hair and your skin while you sleep. The natural oils found on the scalp are uniformly distributed along the hair shaft with the simple act of brushing, but these oils are then absorbed by the cotton drying it. In addition the weave of the cotton is abrasive tending to grip individual strands causing them to break and the hair to tangle. This is why your hair can look such a mess when you wake in the morning.

The answer to this problem – Satin - or more particularly The Beauty Pillow with its uniquely designed Satin Pillowcase that prevents sleep wrinkles, protects your hair and allows your hair and skin to breathe and retain all its natural moisture while you sleep.

For decades now hair care specialists have been recommending satin pillowcases to protect your hair and your hair style while you sleep. Firstly satin is not absorbent so it allows you hair to breach and retain its natural moisture, and secondly the hair slides over the pillow preventing it from breaking and tangling.

Most medical experts now also recommend satin pillows for patients being treated for cancer and hepatitis C, where the treatment tends to cause frictional Alopecia (al-lo-pee-shah) the abnormal loss of the hair root and hair shaft from the hair follicle caused by the hair rubbing against the abrasive cotton and causing heat damaging the hair cuticles with heat.

Sleeping on a satin pillow helps prevent the cuticle heating up during the night as the head moves around and puts pressure on the hair because the head and hair flows over the satin. It is also better for your skin in helping to prevent facial creases caused by the face laying in the same position for an extended time.

The Beauty Pillow was developed following a year of testing of various designs to ensure maximum slide of the head and hair over the pillow. It’s unique construction ensure that your head slides much more easily than just using a plain satin pillowcase as you move during the night preventing damage to your hair and wrinkles on your face.

We also wanted a product that was easy to travel with. The Beauty Pillow is just 50 cm by 30 cm and simply sits on top of your cotton pillow, so if you are in a hotel, staying with friends or even in hospital, you can benefit from the pillow. Being small it easily packs in an overnight case, so you can use it while travelling on a train or plane in place of or in addition to the travel pillow provided.

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Tuesday, August 16, 2005

7 Tips to Keep Your Skin Looking Great

By Sheila Dicks

1. Healthy Food: Keep your skin fresh and glowing by eating antioxidant-rich foods. Choose foods that are bright in color, such as broccoli, carrots, blueberries and tomatoes. When you eat healthy and exercise regularly you are much more likely to have great skin.

2. Sunburn Treatment: First to avoid the chance of sunburn always use a sun block that blocks both UVA and UVB rays. If you are unfortunate and get sunburn, take a bath in lukewarm water using a moisturizing bath product such as Aveeno. Follow with a moisturizer.

3. Help for Rough Hands: Use Mary Kay, Satin Hands. It has an exfoliant and a moisturizer that leaves hands feeling ever so soft. Or, apply an extra emollient cream at night and then slip on a pair of cotton gloves and you’ll wake up with hands that feel much softer.

4. Eliminate Bumpy skin: If your skin feels rough (has little bumps) use a body scrub once a week and you will feel a difference.

5. Get rid of Back Pimples: If you get pimples on your back try a body wash that is make for acne (such as Clearasil) and watch your acne disappear.

6. No More Pillow Marks: To avoid waking up with creases on your face use a satin pillowcase. A satin pillowcase is also a great trick to keep your hair in place.

7. Skin that feels fresh: If you have a problem keeping the shine off your face during the summer and your face feels greasy by noon, change your cleanser and/or moisturizer to oil controlling.

Sheila Dicks is an Image and Wardrobe consultant who helps women learn how to dress to suit their body type and look fabulous. You can reach her at http://www.sheilasfashionsense.com and get the Free Report “ 7 Things Your Girlfriends Won’t Tell You About Beauty and Fashion”.

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Saturday, July 23, 2005

The Beauty Pillow - Aids Sleep, Prevents Wrinkles


Orders are coming on from all over the world for our unique Beauty Pillow and we are receiving lots of very positive comments on the benefits.


Not only does the Beauty Pillow move with my face preventing those unsightly wrinkles that I so often used to wake up with but it is so comfortable to sleep on. The soft cool satin against my skin is such a wonderful feeling when I go to bed. Just after purchacing my Beauty Pillow I went away for a few days to stay in a hotel and I so missed my pillow, I found it hard to sleep. On my next trip I remembered to put my pillow into my case and what difference. This will be an essential item in my packing for the future. What a great idea to make it small enough to pack in an overnight bag. Richelle, Hull UK

After having now slept on the pillow for almost three months, I can safely say that I’m glad I tried it. Gone completely are the creases across my face that I sometimes developed, especially after a deep sleep. These creases often lasted until lunchtime, prior to using the pillow and were less than attractive. Julie, Leeds

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Saturday, June 25, 2005

Aloe Vera

This cactus-like plant, which originated in Africa, has a gel like inside known for thousands of years for it moisturising and medicinal properties. The Egyptians where the first to use the plant for medicine thousands years ago, it is said to boost the immune system and contains natural anaesthetic and antiseptic agents.

The powerful aloe leaf contains more than 75 nutrients and 200 active compounds, including 20 minerals, 18 amino acids, and 12 vitamins, which are all able to fight infection.

Skin problems.

Aloe vera can also be used to heal various irritating skin condtitons,such as eczema acne and psoriasis. Work done in the Ukraine has discovered that Aloe Vera gel contains a hormone that that helps accelerate healing in wounds and third degree burns.

Inflammation

According to experts, aloe juice contains unique mix of vitamins, minerals, amino acids, enzymes and chemicals that damp down inflammation. It also helps arthritis sufferers. And can be used to relive heartburn and peptic ulcers.

Constipation

Aloe Vera contains soapy substances called saponins that cleans the bowel, and pulpy Fibres called ligins, which absorb and toxins to help bowel motion.it also used for indigestion, and can be a powerfully laxative.

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Saturday, June 11, 2005

Raisins may keep you from the dentist

Raisins are good for you but did you know they may keep you from the dentist?

It has been found that raisins could protect your teeth. That little snack fights the bacteria that cause gum disease & cavities. This contradicts the long held belief that all sweet food is bad for your smile.

The study by Dr Christine Wu suggests that contrary to popular belief, the chemicals in this popular snack food suppress the growth of several species of oral bacteria associated with cavities and gum disease.

Raisins contain oleanolic acid, oleanolic aldehyde, betulin, betulinic acid and 5 (hydroxymethy1)-2-fur-fural all of which slow down the growth of bacteria and also stop it sticking to teeth to form plaque which can make the teeth fall out. Dr Wu, of the University of Illinois at the Chicago College of Dentistry says, “It is mainly added sugar that contributes to the problem.” The dark colour of fruits comes from caramelisation of natural sugars during drying.

(Research was funded by the California Raisin Marketing Board.)
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Saturday, April 30, 2005

Weight Loss and Hoodia Gordonii

You cannot fail to have noticed the growing emphasis recently on television on weight loss and healthy eating. 'You Are What You Eat' and 'Jamie's Kitchen' have been followed by a rash of new documentaries and discussions looking at the damaging effects of processed food. In 'Supersize Me' a man who attempted to eat nothing by MacDonald’s for a month was warned mid way though the experiment that it would kill him if he didn't stop.

Yet it's interesting that at the same time we have had an election campaign and not one politician seems prepared to make obesity and healthy eating an election issue. In one programme discussing the results of a young boys dramatic behaviour change when nutritionalists identified that he was intolerant to wheat and dairy, the presenter asked if anyone could go to see their GP and get tested. The answer is NO.

The evidence that food is one of most significant causes of behavioural problems in children and the huge costs to the NHS of dealing with degenerative illness caused by overeating and poor diet are now indisputable. Yet politicians are not prepared to address the issue. Properly managed, the NHS could provide significant support to us all by helping us top eliminate from our diets the foods that our bodies are intolerant to. The cost of this testing is not huge - yet it seems they are more prepared to spend thousands on drugs and surgery to fix the health problems resulting from poor diet and to help us eliminate the problem in the first place.

Why? Well its a political problem. Politicians depend on funding from major corporations for their election campaigns - many of the companies that provide that funding are large and significant players in the giant Food and Pharmaceutical industries. Active campaigns that negatively impact sales for these companies are therefore impossible. So we are left to take care of ourselves.

What we try to do on ez Anti Aging is to provide advice and suggestions on where you can get the support to help you to regulate your diet, avoid obesity and prevent the aging effects of poor foods and life style. The more healthy your body the longer you are likely to live - there is no dispute on that.

One product we have recently discovered that enables anyone to suppress the desire to over eat is Hoodia Gordonii. This cactus like plant from the African Kalahari Desert has been know about for thousands of years by the Sans Bushmen who, when on long hunting trips chew on the succulent heart of the plant to reduce hunger and increase energy, and are able to go days without eating and still remain strong and energetic.

While the Bushmen knew all about the powers of Hoodia, it was not until the mid 60's that the first research was done on Hoodia as an appetite suppressant ant it has taken 30 years for laboratories to isolate the specific appetite suppressing ingredient called P57.

In 2001 a double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical study in overweight, but otherwise healthy volunteers using the P57 extract from Hoodia Gordonii. The participants were split into two groups, one group received the P57 and the other received a placebo. Both groups were told to continue their normal diet and exercise. On average the P57 group (Hoodia) ate about 1,000 calories a day less than those in the control group. To put that in perspective, the average man consumes about 2,600 calories a day; a woman about 1,900.

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Saturday, March 26, 2005

Vitamin C - Collagen & Antioxidants

For a really effective Anti Aging Strategy, he most important of the antioxidants that you should be taking is Vitamin C. Most nutritionalists now recommend that we take at least 1000 mg per day as it one of the only vitamins that cannot be stored by the body.

Vitamin C strengthens the body's white blood cells, the chief defence against invation by bacteria and viruses. There is strong evidence that people who do not take enough Vitamin C are more vulnerable to infections and illness from the common cold to cancer.

Vitamin C helps give us energy by aiding in the production of other essential body chemicals including L-carnitine which transports fats into the mitochondria where fats are converted to energy.

Vitamain C helps with the production of neurotransmitters the brain chemicals that help the nerves in the central and periferal nervous systems inproving our ability to think clearly and move our bodies.

Importantly for ez Anti Aging, Vitamin C enables your skin to resist wrinkles, by helping to produce Collagen, the strong connective tissue that holds our bodies together.

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Fight free Radicals - the key to anti aging


I am sure you have heard of Free Radicals. It's one of those often quoted and more often misunderstood terms, but understanding what causes free radicals, how they damage our bodies and how to defent against them and repair the damage they cause is essential to living longer and looking younger.

In simple terms Free Radicals are the by-product of producing energy. Every time we burn something we produce heat energy and as a result free radicals. Even the body produces free radicals when it converts glucose into energy.

Free radicals are a part of life - we can't stop them, but if we don't defend against them then it is likely that we will age prematurely, suffer from degerative illness and die painfuly.

How do Free Radicals cause all that damage?

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Everything in life is made up of molecules which in turn are made up of atoms. Atoms comprise of a nucleus at the centre with pairs of electrons spinning around them. When energy is being created such as by burning, the atoms are agitated speeding up and bumping into each other causing some to lose an electron.

These now unstable atoms, called free radicals, then aggressively attack biological tissue to try to grab an electron to stablaise themselves, in turn creating further free radicals and a chain reaction.

One puff a cigarette creates 100 billion free radicals which then all attack the skin and internal organs like the lungs creating a chain reaction which can lead to cells dying.

Frying food, burning petrol and diesel , exposure to sunlight etc all result in billions of free radicals attacking your body. Radiation is an even greater cause of free radical.

To defend yourself against this continuous onslaught from thousands of billions of free radicals every minute (mostly a direct product of our modern lifestyle) we all need to put in place clear Anti Aging strategy.

At eZAntiAging.com we will be providing simple tips and product recommendations to help you put into place immediately an Anti Aging Strategy to start building your defences and enjoying a longer healther, younger lookling, life.

Saturday, February 26, 2005

The Beauty Pillow

We all know that as we age our skin loses elasticity, but did you realise that sleeping on a hard cotton pillow can cause you to wrinkle while you sleep. I discovered this a few years ago myself. I noticed that when I woke up in the morning, instead of my skin seeming relaxed and refreshed, I had developed wrinkles overnight. They were not permanent but it took a while for my skin to return to normal. These tension lines are the start of permanent wrinkles and I respoved to do something to stop them.

I set to work developing a pollow that would not cause my face to wrinkle overnight. After a few experiments I finally came up with a very simple design.
With its soft satin flowing cover, The Beauty Pillow allows you face to relax giving the skin a chance to release the stresses of the day so that you wake up feeling and looking younger.

I have had my Beauty Pillow now for 3 month and after a week I noticed a difference in my face. The lines around my eyes weren’t as noticeable and I have no longitudinal lines going down my face. The Pillow is so comfortable to sleep on I cannot sleep without it now. I am very satisfied with the product and have recommended it to all my friends. Janice Dobson, Hull UK

The Beauty Pillow really works as an essential part of any anti aging campaign. It is very important to take the right supliments to help your skin to maintain its elestacity, and to clean and moisturise your skin, but you spend 8 hours a night asleep and its importan that while you do, your skin really gets a chance to relax and let go of the tension that causes premature wrinkles.