As time passes, if one does not take care of oneself, it affects the health, skin etc. It renders dark spots, marks and wrinkles which deepen over time. Along with maintaining oneself, nutrition at the right time helps the skin retain its firmness and glow. For this, the following guidelines can be followed:
• Walk and take the stairs as much as possible. This helps the muscles to remain tight, enables better blood circulation, keeps cholesterol levels low and keeps body weight in check.
• Instead of sleeping on your sides or on your stomach, sleep on the back. This will help keep wrinkles at bay and the stomach tucked in.
• Urinate before a meal and after a meal as well.
• Drink at least 10 glasses of water a day. This will help keep away body odor and keeps the skin glowing.
• While having a bath, make sure the water is neither too hot nor too cold. Add one spoonful of Vinegar and half a spoonful of salt in the water to avoid chapping of skin.
• Avoid eating at irregular times. Instead eat at regular times properly. Avoid too much spice or oil in your food.
• Substituting dessert for a fruit or lemonade is healthier.
• Keep yourself occupied and encourage more hobbies. This will keep the stress levels down and will boost self-confidence.
• Intake of curds and buttermilk should be made a habit.
• Indulgence, anger, worry and infatuation make for enemies to good health.
• Eat salt sparingly. Eat calcium enriched food (instead of calcium supplements).
Our body produces cells throughout our life while the older, useless cells are destroyed. In old-age, the production of cells slows down and this induces changes in the body. The production of energy also comes down. The brain cells count decreases; weaker cells degenerate and regeneration of new cells stops, causing deficient hearing and sight in old-age.
The body’s ability to fight diseases decreases in old-age as a result of which infections and diseases are easier to catch. The body can succumb to cancer much more easily due to lack of immunity.
To overcome age-related disorders, resort to wholesome food for help.
Grains are the primary source of food for us. Without grains, a meal isn’t complete. We derive the energy and calories required for daily work from grains mostly. The lifestyle and culture of today’s time is quickly having its impact on our food and food habits. These primarily encourage the consumption of grains that are refined. The reason being that we all lead such busy lives that we do not even have enough time to eat properly and eat right. The easy availability and easiness in eating refined foods have made them as popular as they are today. In this process, the Rusk from the wheat is removed; the Dal is polished, resulting in the doing away of important nutrients from the food we eat.
The most important nutrient in grains is carbohydrates. Cholesterol and fat-free is said to be wholesome food filled with necessary nutrients like Vitamins and Proteins. Eating wholesome food has many advantages like generation of energy. Vitamin E is an anti-oxidant which helps in increasing hemoglobin. Vitamin B6 and Folic Acid as well as minerals are found in these food grains. These grains protect our bodies from diseases of not only the heart but others as well. But the process of refining food grains destroys all these advantageous qualities of food grains. Wholesome food (unrefined grains) helps in fighting and avoiding diseases like cancer, diabetes and obesity. Unrefined grains are wholesome food because it has fiber which helps in keeping the digestive system strong and healthy besides boosting the immune system and fighting cholesterol. Today, we really need this kind of wholesome food to fight the new diseases that affect even kids. We are surrounded by diseases like obesity which start at a very young age due to the lack of wholesome food in our diet, like wheat bran and coarse meals made of wheat. These kind of tastes need to be cultivated in children up to 10 years of age so that they develop a habit of eating these. Later these habits are difficult to form, especially due to the availability of the wide variety of fast-food which not only is unhealthy despite the good taste, but is also one of the major causes of obesity.
