Anti-Aging Diets
The Cretan Diet
The “Mediterranean diet” traditionally relies on fruits and vegetables in quantity, vegetable oils, and fish. It is also a frugal diet, under which the society had virtually no overweight people. This diet is an example of traditional Mediterranean food.
The Okinawa diet
The inhabitants of the island of Okinawa in Japan have life expectancy the longest in the world. Their traditional diet has many points in common with the power of the “Mediterranean diet” use oil as fat, consumption of vegetables and fish, frugal diet. It is close to the traditional Japanese diet.
The Atkins diet
Another anti-aging diet: the Atkins method! This name may be familiar because it is offered by an American doctor in the 60s a diet that had a great success and it’s among the most popular diets. It offers a diet low in refined sugars and bad fats, rich in protein, and vitamin…
Water: source of youth
At all times, water is the first principle of youth. It helps maintain tissue hydration and in particular the skin and it is the most potent anticancer drug. Needs are 1.5 liters for women and two for men every day. To maintain the plasma must ensure a minimum water intake of 1.5 to 2 liters per day. Part of the water contained in foods containing food and the other party (minimum 1 liter) should be given as a drink: water, teas, coffee, tea, vegetable broths, and juices.
In periods of high heat losses must be offset (transpiration) that are more important. Similarly, in case of fever, increase intake of 300 ml per degree above 37oC.
It should make it a habit to drink before feeling thirsty, and even without thirst.
Proper hydration has positive effects in the fight against constipation and to maintain serum sodium (blood sodium, which regulates blood pressure) and urea to normal values.