What can you eat to delay the aging process?
Here is some good advice: http://bit.ly/4AkgSz
What do you think is best to eat as you get older?
Some people seem to be old when their biological age is still young. Someone said to me the other day, ‘ I’m thirty already, so old!’ Maybe it seems like that when you are a teenager but when thirty is a long distant memory it seems strange to think that some people consider it old.
One of the ways to keep your brain young is to be redy to try new experiences. I did so over the weekend. I went on a foraging weekend with Fat Hen. A group of 15 people foraged for edible plants and sea weeds on the beach and in the hedgerows and then went back to the farm for delicious chef cooked food. It was wonderful. Anyway we were told about making Haloumi cheese and needing something like rennet to separate the surds from the milk. I remembered we used to eat ‘junket’ when I was a child. We didn’t know about yogurt then. My mother bought some rennet in a bottle aded it to milk which curdled and we ate it with sugar and it was delicious! No-one else in the group had ever heard of junket and I realised then how much older I was than them. Tell me if anything like that has ever happened to you?
I was chatting to a friend on the beach yesterday about how, at the start of the second world war in 1939 many children were evacuated from big cities to the country side because it was thought to be safer for them there. He was reminiscing and saying to me ‘Were you evacuated?’ I replied, ‘Well I wasn’t born then!,’ ‘Oh dear me, he laughed, ‘I thought for a moment we were the same age!’
Just as we assume the listener is familiar with the pop music we grew up with or the films we saw in out teenage years so too do we assume that people are a similar age to us!
However I believe it’s health to have friends and acquaintances of all ages. As you get older, particularly it’s important to keep in touch with the world around you, be ready to keep on learning new things and be willing to try new experiences too. When you do that then even if you are beginning to look older you will still have a swing in your step and a smile on your face and your spirit will remain young too.
If you are heading towards retirement you will find my book ‘Get ready for retirement’ offers you many snipets of good advise to have a life after work. You can buy it from Amazon and Lulu.com/sekersley
It’s a strange thing about getting older. You don’t notice it that much yourself until you catch a quick glance of yourself in the mirror and notice a few more lines or a few more grey hairs. One of the tell-tale signs is mentioning something that happened what seems like yesterday and being greeted with a blank look by the other person. Mentioning the name of an actor and similarly the other person doesn’t know to whom you are referring.
How can you remain as fit and healthy as possible for as long as possible?
Eat healthy food, every few hours; exercise regularly, walking is one of the best ways to achieve this; read and learn; drink lots of water; have a positive mindset; don’t smoke; learn to relax when you feel tense and have enough sleep. Keep your brain active too.
Let me know other tips in the comment box!
I’ve had my cholesterol checked annually and this year as before it’s raised. However my GP told me I don’t have to take statins which I’m pleased about as I don’t like taking long term medication unless absolutely necessary. Apparently a high cholesterol is not so worrying for women and a cardiologist may even take some women off their statins. More important is whether or not you smoke, have high blood pressure, have heart disease or a strong family history of heart disease. My only risk factor is being overweight and I hate diets! However what I do like is the way of eating advoted by the Food Doctor. www.thefooddoctor.com I love all his books and recipes. When I eat the way he suggests I don’t feel like eating sugary foods.
Make sure you keep body and mind flexible and moving. What is the best way to exercise? My favourite is walking the cliff paths in Cornwall, lots of ups and downs to help keep a good balance, while exercising and connecting with the wild sea and scenery. Even walking for half an hour from your own front door along the street or local park will do you a power of good. For some people having a dog motivates them to get up and get moving each day.
What will motivate you? Remarkably aches and pains disappear when you exercise although they may have been the excuse not to exercise
Click HERE for exercise tips for boomers
‘It doesn’t seem such a bad life, being retired,’ said my son glancing through my latest copy of SAGA magazine.
There are lots of benefits: free bus travel, fee swimming sessions, reduced train fares and reduced entrance into museums and shows!
But disadvantages too: as I’m recovering from a sprained ankle and realise I can’t yet get back to doing what I was just less than a week ago – It’s all rather frustrating!
So the mixed pleasures of seeing my grandchildren and then not being able to climb down the rocks to be on the beach with them yesterday. However gratitude that my injury is minor and by this time next week I will throw down my crutch and climb down the clff path with renewed agility.
Yesterday I was on my way to the dentist to have a tooth out and didn’t notice there were 2 steps to go down from the room where I do yoga because I was lost in thought about the tooth extraction and whether or not I would have a local anaesthetic to have the tooth out when I suddenly found myself sprawled on the floor with several people asking me whether I wanted rescue remedy, comfrey or report the accident in the accident book (I was in a public building).
I said I was fine and when the acute pain of a sudden fall wore off I hobbled down the road to the dentist to have my tooth out. I had a local anaesthetic which was great, I didn’t feel anything wxcept for my painful ankle. By the time I got home I had a hugely swollen ankle and wondered what to do to treat the sprained ankle. My husband knew what to do – he applied a crepe bandage and found me a crutch and even explained how to use it.
You have to hold the crutch with the arm on the opposite side to the injured ankle. Then walk like ‘Jake the peg with his extra leg’ bad leg forward at the same time as crutch forward. Good leg forward and crutch and bad leg back. Brilliant . I’ve noticed how lots of people don’t seem to get how to use the crutch!
Of course there are all sorts of things that can act as crutches – something which can offer a bit of help during a difficult time for example. The important thing to remember is a crutch is not for always, it’s a way of enabling you to get through a difficult patch.
My book ‘Get ready for retirement- how to have a life after work‘ can do that too because many people find the transition into retirement needs the support of a crutch for a while until you get used to the change of identity and new lifestyle.
Be inspired by the man written about here:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/money/article824052.ece
You too can keep your grey cells active by learning mkore about the internet and grey surfing in your retirement.
Computers and the internet make life so much easier in many ways: keep in touch with friends and family by email. Get information about whatever you want to know by putting your questions into search engine such as google or yahoo.
Whatever you decide to do remember that your brain as well as your body needs to be used when you are retired. So, to have a life after work and to help you with your retirement planning take a look at www.getreadyforretirement.co.uk You can sign up for a free report about the 6 essential things you need when thinking about retirement.
While on holiday in Itacare, Bahia, Brazil I copied the footwear of the locals: flip flops. My feet unaccustomed to the new pressures of the flip flop's straps. My feet more used to being enclosed in socks and town shoes, have reacted to the flip flops with several blisters. However I know that in a few days the skin will heal and the skin will adapt to their new footwear.
Life after ( or even before) retirement can be like adapting to flip flops too. At first doing something different may feel strange and you may be tempted to stop as I almost decided to abandon my flip flops. However when you persist the scars heal and you adapt to the new situation. As you prepare to retire or adapt to the transition called retirement, there will be many opportunities to do something different. Be brave and go ahead. Take the opportunities which retirement brings to do something different, even if it seems at first as though you won't be able to adapt. Most things need repeating or doing 21 times to become automatic. So keep your goal in ind and don't give up too soon,
For more useful strategies to have a life after work read my book 'Get ready for retirement – how to have a life after work' available from LULU
