Cut Down On Your Our Calories To Look Younger And Live Longer

Washington, July 4 (IANS) Cut those calories out - and look younger and live longer. That’s what the latest research says. While not much is known about how curbing calories affects aging, researchers working with mice found it decreases a thyroid hormone called triiodothyronine (T3) which, in turn, slows metabolism and tissue aging.

The new study, by scientists at Saint Louis University, found that even reducing 300 to 500 calories daily, had a similar biological effect on humans and, therefore, may slow the aging process.

“Over recent years, there has been a huge amount of debate about whether calorie restriction slows the aging process in humans,” said Edward Weiss, co-author of the study.

“Our research provides evidence that calorie restriction does work in humans like it has been shown to work in animals. The next step is to determine if this, in fact, slows age-related tissue deterioration.

“The only way to be certain, though, is to do a long-term study.”

In the study, Weiss, to determine if calorie reduction would lower T3 levels in humans, recruited volunteers to lose weight through exercise.

Volunteers were in good health and comprised sedentary, non-smoking, 50- to 60- year-old men and post-menopausal women with average or slightly above average body mass index (BMI) values.

Volunteers were randomly assigned to one of three groups — a calorie-restriction group, an exercise group or a control group — and followed for one year.

Volunteers in the calorie restriction group lost weight by reducing their daily calorie intake by 300 to 500 calories per day. Volunteers in the exercise group maintained their regular diet and exercised regularly.

Volunteers in both the calorie-restriction and exercise groups experienced similar changes of body fat mass. However, only volunteers in the calorie restriction group also experienced lower levels of the thyroid hormone.

Because it also slows metabolism, Weiss warned that calorie-restricted weight loss could make people more prone to weight gain over time.

On the other hand, people who lose weight through exercise are not as likely to gain weight back if they quit exercising. The key to maintaining a healthy weight, Weiss said, is keeping a consistent diet and exercising regularly.

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How Do I Stop Over-eating And Live Longer?

How Do I Stop Overeating…and Live Longer?

Have you ever eaten a big meal and then felt really hungry an hour later? I know this feeling and it always comes during holidays when I am not eating my normal diet. I am chronically hungry and feel that no matter how much I eat, I could eat more. The food that I am normally craving is not fruit or nuts…it is generally heavy food like bread, biscuits or potatoes. Some people crave sugar.
What is happening in our bodies when we feel this way explains what research continually shows as the number one cause of aging? In Nigeria today, the average life span of men is 45years. This is as a result of certain types of food we eat, lack of exercise and sometimes overeating (the wrong food).
Food that Quickly Turns to SugarCarbohydrates are foods that turn to sugar inside the body. The carbohydrates that create the highest amount of sugar very quickly are called high glycemic and are sugar (obviously), and carbohydrates such as bread, pasta, potato, and rice. Other foods such as fruit, vegetables (apart from potatoes), nuts and lentils turn to sugar very slowly and are called low glycemic.
Each time we eat a big bowl of pasta, a couple of slices of toast or some sugary foods, there is a surge in the blood sugar level. The body panics “I’m not supposed to be dealing with this type of food. What is going on?” You see, our bodies are not built to consume high glycemic foods…they have only been around for a short period of time relative to our evolution.
A vital hormone called insulin is secreted by the pancreas and encourages the sugar in the blood to move into the cells so that it does not harm the body and so that it can be turned into energy. Because the pancreas is worried that there is this unnatural amount of sugar, it releases loads of insulin, so the blood sugar is now excessively low.
Now the body is worried because there is no sugar around, so it thinks that it is not going to have any energy. Other sugar raising hormones are called upon to compensate, and so are we. This is when our bodies begin to scream “give me some sugary food to get my blood sugar up again.” This is why I was dying for some carbohydrates after just finishing a huge meal an hour before. How do I stop overeating? Cut out high glycemic foods that make us addicted to the sugar rush. And this ridiculous amount of sugar eventually turns into fat.

Who wouldn’t want to feel and look young in their sixties?

I know I do. I think there are certain tricks to learning how to stay young, which include the following:

1. Attitude plays a big part in your quest to stay young. You can’t expect to feeland look young if you don’t believe that you can.

2. Taking care of your body is an important element instaying young.

3. You need to watch your diet and eat nutritiously.

4. Taking multi vitamins and certain herbal medicines can help youmaintain good health, and help you have a lot of energy and drive.

5. Caring about others and your own future will give you a reason to stay young.

6. Doing things that challenge your mind will help.

7. Challenging your body through exercise will help.

8. Stress reduction can be a big help.

9. Learn to relax and smile and laugh a lot and have a sense of humor.

10. Keeping a list of all the things you want to do and all the places you want to go to will help.

Sometimes we have to motivate ourselves to want to stayyoung. We need to take a few minutes and think of all the wonderful things wecan do that require that we have the energy and ambition to do them.It’s always a good idea to be optimistic about all the wonderful things the futurehas in store for us. We can look forward with pleasure to having more time tospend with our children and grandchildren, but let’s not forget that we stillwant to be productive citizens whether that means continuing to work, findingnew part time jobs, or volunteering our services to a worthy cause. It’simportant to stay active.

Set for yourself a series of goals that you wantto accomplish. Look at this list of goals in the light of your past experiences.Decide what you have accomplished so far in your life, and what you still wantto do. Determine what your priorities are, and what it will take for you toaccomplish them.Be proud of all you have accomplished, and be sure you goforward into the future with the same positive attitude that got you to thisjuncture in your life.Most important, be happy. You have a lot of great things to look forward to; staying young at heart is one of them. It’s time to relax and livelonger.

Forget Your Age

Now, pause for a moment. Say to yourself, 'I - this person sitting here - I can be one hundred years old.' Say it aloud. Listen to your words. Repeat them.

This idea is new to you. Is is a new kind of thinking. Take your time with it. Accept the idea of living to be one hundred. In imagination, extend your life forward, far into the future. Figure out what the calender year will be when you are one hundred. Think what the world will probably be like, what new, interesting, unheard-of things probably will be happening. Say to yourself, 'I shall be alive then. I can be alive in the year___'

Accept those years. They are yours. This is not wishful thinking or idle daydreaming. It is simple acceptance of scientific fact. Science has increased your life span beyond wildest expectations.

You can live one hundred years. This means that whatever your present age is, you are young.

Suppose you are forty-five. Heretofore you have been saying to yourself, 'I am forty-five.'

But now that you have been told that you will live to be one hundred, you are saying to yourself, 'I am only forty-five'

What happens?

You begin to feel young!

It is an established scientific fact that all living creatures can live seven to fourteen times as long as the time required to attain maturity. Man attains maturity at the age of twenty; therefore he should live one hundred and forty years.

A man of sixty or seventy is still young. He has lived only half his natural life. Old age can be treated just as other illness because what we are accustomed to regard as normal old age is actually an abnormal, premature phenomenon.

But to live long without growing old - how can that be done?

From the dawn of recorded history, mankind has sought the fountain of youth.

You are as young as your glands, some scientists have said.

I believe that I am one of those lucky ones.

I believe that you are as young as you look, feel, think, hope, believe and act. And I believe that the way you look, feel, think, hope, believe and act depends on three things:

1. Good food


2. A strong, vibrant body


3. An adventurous spirit

In short, I believe that you are as young as your diet.

The world over, scientists studying the extension of life are finding more and more evidence that the fountain of youth is good nutrition.

Passport to a New Way of Life

You are making a mistake!
Just now, you opened this blog. It is on your screen right before you: a blog by Sider Macvills, entitled Look Younger, Live Longer. You intend to read this blog like any other blog. Like an ezine or detective story.
Now that is a mistake.
The blog before you is no ordinary blog. You are looking at a passport to a new way of living. You are not just beginning to read. You are beginning a new adventure, a journey of discovery.
Like any journey, this one requires a certain amount of courage at the outset. Courage to do new things, think in new ways, entertain new ideas, some of which may surprise and startle you.
Like any journey, too, this one requires at the outset a certain amount of confidence and a sense of excitement. Confidence in the guide and in the value of the goal. Excitement at the prospect of setting forth into unfamiliar territory, of testing your own ability to grasp new concepts and accept new points of view, some of which may seem not only unfamiliar but unorthodox.
However, I promise you that like any adventure undertaken with courage, confidence and excitement, this one will reward you richly from beginning to end, every step of the way.