A slightly heavy question: How far do you think you are from getting older?
In fact, from a physiological point of view, human basic metabolism starts to decline slowly from the age of 25. Skin aging begins to show up before the age of 30. Bone density began to decrease slowly at the age of 30 ~ 35…
So to live to be 100 years old with quality, is what the secret of correct anti-aging? Let’s do a little test first.
Measure your dietary anti-aging index
If the answer is yes, add 1 point for each title:
1. Do you seldom attend banquets and dinners in restaurants (less than 2 times a week)?
2. Do you seldom replace a meal with biscuits, chocolate, frozen dumplings and instant noodles (less than twice a week)?
3. Your dishes are cooked at a relatively low temperature. Do you like cold mix, stew and cooking, and there is little extra oil on the plate?
4. Do you drink more than 7 cups of water or light tea every day and do not drink fruit juice or sugary drinks?
5. Always keep yourself seven percent full, don’t eat too much, and don’t make yourself feel particularly hungry?
6. Do you eat breakfast every day?
Do you like porridge, rice and dishes with coarse cereals?
8. Do you eat coarse grains, whole wheat, brown rice or potatoes (such as sweet potatoes, potatoes, yams, taro, etc.) more than 3 times a week?
9. Can you eat 200g of dark green vegetables (such as spinach, rape, lettuce, cauliflower, etc.) every day?
10. 如果蔬菜总量达不到每天 500 克, 你会保证吃 1 份新鲜水果吗?
11. Do you drink soya-bean milk, soya-bean milk and eat various soya-bean products more than 4 times a week?
12. Do you eat no less than 50g of meat or fish and no more than 150g of fish every day?
13. If you don’t eat fish meat during the day, will you eat eggs, soybeans and bean products to make up for it?
14. Do you drink half a kilo of milk or 1 ~ 2 small cups of live bacteria yogurt every day (excluding milk drinks and yogurt drinks)?
15. You seldom drink alcohol. If you drink no more than one glass of red wine and no more than half a bottle of beer?
The higher the score, the stronger your anti-aging ability in diet.
See how many points you score. Which questions have you deducted points for?
Low Score for 1 ~ 5 Questions: Prevention of Obesity
One of the dietary points to prevent aging is to maintain a high metabolic rate and prevent obesity.
Due to the decrease of metabolic rate and physical activity, there is often a more obvious weight increase trend after the age of 30.
Especially for women aged 40 ~ 45, due to the arrival of menopause, estrogen secretion level decreases, and various physiological aging will show a sudden acceleration trend.
Women who originally had less visceral fat began to have more fat distributed in the waist, abdomen and viscera, and their bodies tended to be central obesity.
Often eating out, eating fast food and eating high oil and sugar all indicate that you have a higher risk of obesity, thus accelerating aging.
6 ~ 10 Questions Score Low: Prevention of Chronic Diseases
The second key point of diet to prevent aging is to be comprehensive, diverse and balanced to prevent chronic diseases.
In addition to obesity, it is also the time when various chronic diseases begin to invade after the age of 30. Now many people, at a young age, have found fatty liver, hyperlipidemia, diabetes, gallstones and even various tumors.
The rule of three meals and paying attention to the intake of dietary fiber are not only conducive to weight loss, but also conducive to the prevention of various chronic diseases.
Adequate antioxidant substances prevent aging of skin and body tissues. Adequate vitamins make the body and skin full of vitality. Intestinal tract remains unblocked, and harmful environmental pollutants are not easy to stay in the body.
If you stick to a healthy lifestyle and pay attention to nutrition and exercise, you can maintain normal physical indicators, ideal physical fitness, good physical resistance, tall and straight posture and strong bones until you are 45 years old.
Low score in questions 11 ~ 15: Be careful of muscle loss
The third key point of diet to prevent aging is to ensure the amount of protein and prevent muscle degeneration.
With the increase of age, the basic metabolic level decreases obviously, which is also related to the gradual atrophy and degeneration of muscles.
In particular, some friends who have experienced random diet and weight loss often lose more muscle than others in several ordeals.
According to a survey, 27% of white-collar women aged 30 to 40 have climacteric manifestations to varying degrees: emotional instability, difficult weight control, frequent physical and mental exhaustion, dysphoria and insomnia, dry skin, hair loss…
In fact, these are hidden climacteric symptoms, which means that the body is aging ahead of schedule, that is, early shift.
Only by ensuring the necessary protein intake every day and actively exercising can body tissues be repaired in time and not easily appear.
We cannot often appease our hunger with vegetables and fruits, nor can we ignore a meal casually.
Fish, poultry, meat, eggs, milk and soybean products are all sources of high-quality protein, accounting for 30% or even more than 50%.
Only by forming reasonable eating habits as early as possible, maintaining a good mood and adhering to regular exercise, even if you live in a stressful and polluted environment for a long time, can you resist the pig-killing knife of the years and not be fed fat by pig feed, so as to retain your youthful appearance and health.