| If you are even slightly health conscious, you | | | | food. For instance your body has an enzyme blueprint |
| probably are aware of the hundreds of diets, pills and | | | | called fructase for breaking down fructose the |
| specialty fake foods making fantastic promises about | | | | natural sugar found in fruits and vegetables, but no |
| how to slow your aging. Usually there is a 'no | | | | blue print for doing the same for the manufactured |
| problem' promise, there is nothing to prepare, just | | | | high fructose corn syrup and other artificial |
| eat this processed product and all you food problems | | | | sweeteners. So when you continually eat these |
| will be taken care of. | | | | product they do not get quickly absorbed into your |
| You can then expect your health to take dramatic | | | | blood stream to be used, but are dumped. They |
| about turns towards youth, and you will feel great | | | | accumulate in joints around the body. The immune |
| and look good. And of course this will happen in 30 | | | | system tries to attack them as if they are intruders. |
| days. Here is a winning idea to consider. | | | | This process produces a lot of inflammation which |
| I have many acquaintances who take exotic juices | | | | you experience this as joint pains or arthritis. Not only |
| for health while eating the worst of junk foods that | | | | is this discomforting, but it wears your immune |
| will accelerate aging. My premise is that if you have | | | | system down and you experience premature aging |
| the slightest smidgen of interest about how to slow | | | | with the accompanying health problems. |
| your aging, then there are certain foods that should | | | | If you are steadily eating fake sugar as a substitute |
| be considered for elimination from your day to day | | | | for sugar in soft drinks, coffee, tea, baked goods, |
| eating. | | | | cup cakes, fruit preserves and cereals you might be |
| I believe that knowledge is one of the most | | | | heading down a very dangerous food highway. |
| powerful and effective tools you can use to move | | | | Consider this, eating too much natural sugar is |
| you towards successful action in your quest to slow | | | | associated with aging diseases like breast cancer, |
| aging. Here are some things you should know. | | | | diabetes, Alzheimer's and other aging complaints. Fake |
| If you remove fake sugars, like high fructose corn | | | | sugar helps to enhance this prognosis. The Corn |
| syrup, and artificial sweeteners out of your diet you | | | | Refiners Association (CRA) will have you think |
| are taking a giant step to slowing your aging. The | | | | otherwise in their commercials defending their |
| truth is these kinds of sugars overwork your immune | | | | product, but I say you can't fool Mother Nature and |
| system. | | | | she made the fresh food rules. |
| One of the many jobs of the immune system is to | | | | Thinking about this can sometimes be daunting. This |
| defend you from bacteria, viruses and foreign | | | | is natural when you consider changing an ingrained life |
| intruders. The immune system treats fake food as | | | | process like eating the foods that you have grown |
| an unrecognized intruder and overworks itself trying | | | | accustomed to, and believed to be beneficial and |
| to protect you from this unnatural intruder. When this | | | | satisfying. |
| system is overworked it cannot protect you with the | | | | Or you might even be at the point a of full blown |
| vigilance necessary for successful aging. | | | | sugar craving crisis. Then you might want to say bar |
| All the food we eat has to be very quickly broken | | | | humbug! However, if your quest is to feel great and |
| down to get absorbed into the blood stream. For this | | | | look good as you age, then consider getting help in |
| the body produces particular enzymes for each type | | | | the form of mind/body or wellness coaching. This |
| of food. Your body has a natural blueprint of | | | | way you can make a smooth transition into a pain |
| enzymes that can be produced for the breakdown | | | | free, happier, healthier lifestyle. |
| and absorption of natural food, but not for fake | | | | |