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You are often asking us for advice on how you can improve your chances of a healthy aging while waiting for efficient medical treatments. The answer is simple: Daily exercise, a healthy diet, and reduced stress level whenever possible, If you chose to drink, stay away from hard liquor and prefer the occasional beer, or a glass of red wine once in a while with a nice meal and some friends.

Exercise can be a long walk, a short jog or one of the many different sports that are available to all today. Try to have different activities and make sure that all your muscles get involved. This will keep you in good shape, help you eliminate toxins and help keep your heart functioning well.

Diet is a huge aspect of life and you can really make a positive impact on your health by switching to a healthy diet. Allow yourself some exceptions from time to time.

Here is a list of recommended staple foods for a healthy diet from which you can create a million recipes.

Vegetables:

• Leafy greens: Beet greens, Butter lettuce, Collards, Dandelion greens, Dinosaur kale, Mustard greens, Red leaf lettuce, Romaine lettuce, Spinach, Swiss chard.


• Fibrous vegetables: Aspargus, Beets, Bok choy, Carrots, Celery, Cucumbers, Daikon, Green beans, Green peas, Onions, Sugar snap peas, Watercress, Zucchini.


• Starchy vegetables: New potatoes, Parsnips, Pumpkin, Squash, Sweet potatoes, Turnips, Yams.


• Sea vegetables: Dulse, Nori, Kelp

Legumes

• Beans: Adzuki, Black, Chickpeas, Fava, Kidney, Navy, Pinto


• Lentils: Brown, Green, Red


• Peas: Black eyed, Green, Yellow

Seeds
Flaxseed, Hemp, Pumpkin seeds, Sesame seeds, Sunflower seeds.

Pseudograins
Amaranth, Buckwheat, Quinoa, Wild rice

Fruit
Apples, Apricots, Bananas, Berries (blackberries, blueberries, cranberries, raspberries, strawberries), Cherries, Dates, Dragon fruit, Figs, Grapefruit, Grapes, Kiwis, Mangos, Melons (cantaloupe, honeydew, watermelon), Nectarines, Oranges, Papayas, Peaches, Pears, Pineapples, Plums, Pomegranates

Oil
Coconut oil, Extra-virgin olive oil, Flaxseed oil, Hemp oil, Pumpkin seed oil

Nuts
Almonds, Macadamia nuts, Walnuts, Brazil nuts, Cashews, Filberts, Hazelnuts, Pecans, Pine nuts, Pistachios.

Grains
Brown rice, Millet, Spelt, Teff

Additives
Agave nectar, Apple cider vinegar, Balsamic vinegar, Ginger, Nutritional yeast (tastes like cheese), Stevia (tastes like sugar).

Stress makes you age faster. It makes your body more vulnerable to diseases. Cutting out on caffeine and adopting a healthy diet will greatly reduce stress on your body. You should also make time to enjoy the outdoors and the wonders of nature and try to stay away from very stressful situations whenever possible.

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