The Best Foods For Anti-Aging

  • Dairy products. The calcium and fortified vitamin D in dairy foods are essential to strong bones. They help prevent osteoporosis and keep you active into your golden years. Include 3 cups of low-fat milk, yogurt, or other dairy products a day to ensure strong bones for life. By choosing low-fat instead of regular dairy, you’ll help keep your cholesterol levels in check, making you less likely to get heart disease.

Aging Foods To Avoid

For the best anti-aging diet, it’s important to limit foods that can harm your body. Follow these three guidelines and it should be fairly easy.

  2. Limit sugar as much as possible. Eating too much sugar can make your blood sugar levels fluctuate too much. Over time, excess calories may make you insulin resistant, which can lead to type 2 diabetes. Diabetes damages your blood vessels and often leads to heart disease. Avoid excess sugar as much as possible to stay healthy as you age.
  3. Spare the salt. Eating too much salt, a form of sodium can raise your blood pressure. Over time, high blood pressure can damage many parts of your body, including your kidneys, your eyes, and your brain. Limit sodium to 2,400 milligrams — about 1 teaspoon of table salt — throughout your entire day. If you have high blood pressure, your doctor may suggest you eat even less, about 1,500 mg a day. Check labels for the sodium content in canned, frozen, and boxed foods. Packaged foods typically pack in a lot of salt — you may be eating more than you realize.

Fuel Your Body

Can you get the benefits of nutrients through supplements, instead of thinking so much about what you eat? Not necessarily. You need calories from food to have the energy to do everything you want to do. For steady energy, eating three modest-sized meals a day, and healthy snacks between meals are recommended. Drink plenty of water. Dehydration can drain your energy and cause your skin to dry out.

Also, research shows that nutrients in whole foods interact in complex ways to protect your body. Isolating a single nutrient in a supplement rarely offers the exact same benefit. It is smarter and simpler to plan your diet around foods, not nutrients. What you eat will largely impact how you age and how you feel.

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