The word about antioxidants has been out for several years now. More and more people are waking up to the fact that poor nutrition habits are going to cost them years down the road. The young people still don’t believe that they’re ever going to get old and many of them currently have the attitude that they won’t live that long anyway, but then again just about everyone has that attitude when they’re young and foolish.
We’re too busy when we’re young to give a damn about growing old, after all, that’s a long way off. Then, we blink our eyes and we’re 30, blink again and we’re 40, the kids are growing fast and will soon be gone. Then what seems like one more breath and we’re 50. Then, what seemed like so long in the future is suddenly upon us and we start becoming concerned about holding on to life as long as we can. Suddenly our health “matters” to us. After all, you don’t see too many older folks going around doing stupid things that will endanger their health. It’s not because they can’t do it, it’s because life has become more precious when the reality of death is so nearby.
So, it’s not the young, foolish people who will appreciate any information that they can get for free, informing them of ways to lengthen their life. It’s the older folks who have come to realize that health and longer life go hand-in-hand so they will actively seek out methods and techniques to allow them to stay in this life a bit longer and in good or at least adequate health. You see, once the reality of life’s limits hits you right across the face, once those long ago phrases like, “that’s 20 years away, don’t worry about it,” seem ridiculously foolish, the diseases of old age become a harsh reality and most people know that without good health, life’s quality is reduced with each passing day. Without quality in life, life, in general tends to lose it’s meaning because the term “quality” is a highly subjective term while, at the same time, a term that has significant meaning to all of us.
So, let us talk about what the “big deal” is about antioxidants.
What if…when you were at that youthful state in your life, you would have had enough foresight to realize that you were going to appreciate life more as you grew older and would be seeking out methods to extend your life? What if you would have started eating foods and taking supplements that contained powerful antioxidants way back then and had continued to take them until the present time?
Chances are, you’d be in excellent health right now and you’d look at least 20 years younger than you do right now. You’d probably also not have degenerative conditions hampering your life. You’d still have tremendous endurance, still be almost as strong and still be able to eat all the foods you ate back then while maintaining pretty close to the same weight. Why, you ask, could this be happening just because I was eating antioxidant containing foods daily?
Antioxidants have already been proven to significantly reduce the number of free radicals in the body. Free radicals bouncing around and destroying other, healthy molecules is the very reason that we age and our bodies start breaking down and deteriorating. The more that we introduce free radicals into the body, the more they multiply and destroy tissue on a microscopic scale. When you multiply millions of microscopic tissue destructions on a daily basis, it starts to add up. When methods of introducing those free radicals into the body such as smoking, drinking alcohol, being over-exposed to sunlight or taking strong drugs occur frequently the result is inevitable: tissue and then organ destruction. This is how fatal diseases are introduced into the body. This is how the body is destroyed by rapid aging.
Unless you had tremendous foresight when you were young, you probably ate lots of high fat foods, may have smoked, drank a considerable amount of alcohol and probably exposed yourself to lots of ultra-violet rays in the summertime, among other things. During this period, it’s also a probability that you didn’t know much about antioxidants and therefore did not take them on a regular basis. That’s why you’re in the shape that you’re in today. And now, you’ve reached that age of wisdom when you realize how stupid some of the things you did in your youth were, however, nonetheless, you want to slow down the aging process and try to gain some of your health back.
You can get back some significant health but it’s not going to happen overnight.
If you’re one of those people who started taking powerful vitamins and minerals several decades ago and have continued taking them this whole time, odds are, you are in better shape than those who did not. I’m not talking about the across-the-counter cheap stuff you can buy at any food store. I’m referring to the more expensive vitamins and minerals that have high intensity antioxidant vitamins in them.
There are some people who will tell you that “you can only absorb so many vitamins and you pee the rest out.” We have no argument with that thought, however, tissue cells that are saturated with an overabundant amount of vitamins and minerals prior to them being peed out will demonstrate more resilience and stamina then those who take a few vitamins a week and ignore the rest. The body loves vitamins!
Notice that when vitamins are mentioned, minerals accompany them? Without minerals, vitamins are useless. So, if you are only taking some over-the-counter vitamins and no minerals, you’re practically wasting your time. Get some minerals (all kinds) to go along with the vitamins.
The point of all this is to encourage everyone, young and old alike, to take some action. Find a way to incorporate an antioxidant diet into your daily nutrition intake. You don’t have to eat a whole lot of food, just some antioxidant fruits and veggies and/or take adequate supplements.
One of the best ways to do this is by juicing your fruits once a day and mixing in some vegetable juice with them.
If you’ll do this, you will live longer and you’ll live healthier…period. Oh, it might also be a good idea to stay away from some of those free-radical producing activities. At least cut down on them and take more antioxidants.
Of course, the young folks will continue to do what they always do until they lose the “stupid” but the older folks may heed the warning.
Here’s to your long and healthy life!
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