Originally published July 27 2005
Diet is the key to aging gracefully
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
The key to maintaining a more youthful appearance as you age is not to find the secret fountain of youth, but to eat a healthy diet filled with vitamins and minerals and to exercise regularly to protect cell mitochondria from decay with age, writes Dan Olmsted in Science Daily.
"There's no sense trying to make people live longer if they're shortening their lifespan by smoking or eating lousy diets, and we're talking about a sizable percent of the country," Ames told United Press International.
In 1998, Ames won the prestigious National Medal of Science, and in 2001 he was awarded Oregon State University's first $50,000 Linus Pauling Institute Prize for Health Research.
He is a senior scientist at Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute in California and scientific advisory board member of Juvenon.com, which markets an anti-aging supplement he developed.
Ames combines plain-spoken reminders to eat right and stay fit with esoteric insights into the nature of the aging process.
It's clear that there are all sorts of ways of aging yourself faster because of bad diet.
Mitochondria are the power plants in every cell.
Just the way iron rusts or fat grows rancid, we're all going rancid from these oxygen radicals coming out of our metabolism.
We can do that, but there are lots of things you can do that will age your mitochondria faster, and one of them turns out to be not getting enough vitamins and minerals.
They start pouring out oxygen radicals, byproducts, into the cells.
The solution isn't very complicated -- a multi-vitamin-mineral pill that's kind of an insurance pill.
So you should eat some yogurt every day, low fat, and maybe take a little extra magnesium.
And also you need to eat fish a couple of times a week because fish has DHA, which is a long-chain Omega-3 fatty acid and 30 percent of the brain is made of DHA.
What we've been doing is looking at rats that get a good diet -- much better than people do -- and trying to see what we can do to make the mitochondria in old rats look like more like young rats.
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