Many people fear aging. We view it as a menace that must be slowed with modern science and loads of cosmetics. In the end, everyone will age and there’s yet to be discovered a real fountain of youth. The key to aging with grace is to handle it properly. Luckily, there are several things you can do on the path to old age and that you should consider to preserve your health. We will go through three of them below.
Diet
You’ve probably heard the expression, “you are what you eat”, and although it can be embarrassing, the phrase holds some truth. Stuffing yourself with beer, fries, burgers, and bacon daily until age 40 will likely make you look far worse than a colleague who enjoyed juice, kale, beans, and oatmeal well into their eighties. Most of us fall between these two extremes for meal plans. If you find it hard to abstain from dietary decadence, make a list of your favorite flavors. Certain flavors like sweets and fats are quite addictive to our taste buds. Some helpful ways to conquer our desire for these things is finding the more natural sources of sweets and fats and consuming them regularly. Rather than gorging ourselves on strawberry ice cream, we can choose fresh strawberry smoothies. Rather than happily consuming hamburgers and fries twice a day, we go for canned chili and a delicious kale salad with olive oil. Most of the classical flavors that we get addicted to have a simpler natural source that we should investigate further. Consuming that simple natural source of our favorite flavors removes the hatred we have for rabbit food.
Friendship
Surrounding ourselves with people we care about is very important for encouraging a long life. When we feel stressed and discouraged with how our aches and pains are increasing over time, having people to talk with is very helpful. Every person is valuable, and isolating ourselves from others can be a form of suicide. We are social creatures, and building society into our schedule is necessary, whether we like it or not.
Exercise
Exercise is also important for helping us become healthy individuals as we age. If it was not a habit when we were younger, there is no time like the present to begin. If you do not know what exercises to try, aim for a simple 30-minute stroll through your neighborhood once a day. This is not too taxing, and it gets us outside of ourselves and into nature. Having a Utah lawn service handle major chores like mowing and weeding can remove the pressure you feel to not exercise on other days.
Aging healthily is a practice in personal discipline and commitment. There are many who have gone before us. There is no need to despair at the sign of your first gray hair, simply keep up with good habits, friends, and healthy living both spiritually and physically.