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Welcome to our 18th issue of Healthy World Digest!

In this issue:

* Antiaging exercise

* Anti aging supplements

* Antiaging herbs

* Recipe: Pasta, kasha (quinoa), stew

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Is it possible to "antiage?"

What can you do about aging?

Let's start at the beginning. Can we truly turn back the clock? Physically? That is, is antiaging possible at this time?

No.

Pure and simple. No.

You can't turn around the aging process unless you mean by it that you can turn around some conditions that are reversible. But normal aging is not reversible.

What you can do is simply attain whatever potential you have at whatever age you find yourself in. But you aren't going to run as fast at sixty as you did at twenty. Not unless there was something wrong with you at 20.

Aging results in several processes that we have no idea on how to reverse or even keep at just on the same place.

For example, cells reproduce but reproductions are microscopically imperfect, for many cycles. In time, as imperfect cells birth more and more imperfect cells, signs of aging increase.

Also, as cells age, they lose increasingly more fluid or water.

Infants are for the most part water. Seniors are not. This fluid loss leads to all kinds of cosmetic and performance loss. Just compare the dry skin of an octogenarian to the smooth skin of a toddler.

And yet, some people seem to be doing something right. And, maybe are a little genetically lucky. Dick Clark, for example. Until recently.

So, what are the basic things that you can do to attain your potential. Just a few easy tips to delay aging and seemingly "turn back the clock"

Let's start with the basics. Eat sensibly. Exercise consistently. Get some sunshine, every day, if possible. Drink lots of healthy water.

Here are some more specifics.

* Antiaging exercise

Exercise is of vital importance especially as societies around the world become more sedentary. But what exercise is rightly hailed as the best antiaging exercise?

Most exercise is antiaging but there is one in particular, or a specific group, that merits the designation of antiager.

Play. That's right. What kids and teens do all the time, at least before the internet, video games and cable TV.

Running, swimming, weightlifting, calisthenics: all good but if you really want to stave off aging, play active sports. Basketball. Tennis. A brisk game of softball or touch football. Martial arts would qualify too.

There are many possible reasons for the superiority of active games. Here's what I think.

Games force you to start-stop, like a type of exercise that's more and more being seen as great for fitness & health -> interval training.

Also, games force you to do things that you would never do under controlled exercise scenarios.

A basketball rebound where your arms are stretched way up, while legs are scissored in an awkward leap. A sprint to third base punctuated by a slide. A football catch, quick pivot, run to sideline then downfield.

Now, we're not expecting you to quite do all of that at 70. Or, maybe so. But even older people could play a quickened game of golf or a gentler game of tennis.

Games also make you to go a little beyond yourself. Not timing your workouts or keeping your eye on some gauge, games allow your competitive spirit to drive your activity to greater heights.

Finally, games are fun. They're good for your mental health. Instead the pure joy of play.

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* Antiaging herbs

How about a pair of antiaging herbs? Simple.

Be sure to include ginger and garlic into your life.

The two herbs have so many benefits that they may address issues you have no idea about. They could help you stave off cancer, hypertension, arthritis, diabetes, infections.

Best included fresh in foods or teas. But, if you have to take supplementally, that's fine too.

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* Antiaging supplements

How about a duet of the best antiaging supplements?

I would go with two antiaging vitamins. A surprise here is that one of the vitamins is not what we ordinarily think of as the King of vitamins, vitamin C. Vitamin C is great. If you're over 30, you should probably take some.

But these 2 supplements are even more vital for antiaging.

Vitamin E. The more we learn, the more vitamin E is viewed as good for basic cardiovascular health and for fighting age-enhancing free radicals.

It is difficult to get enough vitamin E in foods to manage aging-related processes so getting some via supplements would be smart as you age.

Even more crucial than vitamin E is vitamin D. Healthy World has a whole section on vitamin D (presently being moved onto another server) and for good reason.

Vitamin D, really a hormone, is more and more being seen as a master nutrient that addresses nearly every major condition including mental health.

Taking in vitamin D from the sun, in increments of twenty - 30 minutes daily, is one of the best things you can do for youth and vitality.

I've noticed I feel better and am happier on days I get some rays wearing only shorts and sandals.

On days you can't get sun, taking a vitamin D3 tablet is an adequate substitute.

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* Recipe: Pasta, kasha, stew

YouHoo, lucky you. I remembered to include a recipe in this month's Healthy World Digest.

A family dish, if your family is from Eastern Europe. I've enjoyed many a time a classic dish the Eastern Europeans call Varnishkas.

It's basically bow tie pasta, topped with cooked whole grain buckwheat (I get Wolff's Kasha) and topped with some stew, beef or chicken.

I looked at ways to make dish a little more health friendly and short of substituting, oh, beef flavored soyballs and broccoli for potatoes, it was kind of tough.

Come to think of it, broccoli doesn't sound too bad.

Well here was my twist. Buckwheat is healthy enough but its nutritional profile is very near pasta. So, the dish is over-carb laden. I thought I'd substitute quinoa for buckwheat.

Quinoa is a low carb, high protein, high fiber super grain that's quite tasty. Great in this kind of dish. Can also make a good pasta substitute in other dishes.

Just make sure not to overcook or else it turns very soggy.

Well, hope you enjoyed this month?s issue of HWD. Are you working on your New Years resolutions? If so, great. If not, hey, there?s 4 months left. Don?t give up.

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See you next month!

Sal

Owner, Healthy World Online