Aging and Disease - Lifestyle Diseases and Secondary Aging
Aging and disease are intimately related so focus on preventing lifestyle diseases, otherwise known as secondary aging. Chronic illnesses both cut life short and make it miserable. However, you can prevent that!
Primary vs. Secondary Aging Longevity really depends on your genes and how well you prevent chronic illness that can cut your life short. Genetic factors are inherited, but the way they play out IS under your control. You can do this by staying healthy and disease free. Some strategies for avoiding lifestyle diseases are: - Avoiding or quitting smoking
- Getting the right exercise
- Eat a nutritious diet and avoid junk foods
- Avoid overuse of prescription medications
- Do not use recreational drugs
- Get the required amount of sound sleep every night
I will outline strategies for doing so on this website, but of course it’s up to you to follow them, or at least use them as a guide as you navigate your way toward better health. As you will see many of these conditions are related and share the same root causes. Good Health Is A ChoiceAging and disease are sometimes taken as being one in the same. Many people don’t understand that disease comes from poor nutrition and lack of proper exercise, not age. While it is true that the body deteriorates with age, good health can still be maintained into advanced age if you live a healthy life. Lifestyle diseases involve a choice by people to neglect the proper care of their body. You can make the choice to avoid these by building wellness into the way you live on a day-to-day basis. Believe it or not, it isn’t all that hard. It’s just a matter of habits! Many people have misconceptions about health, nutrition, and exercise. They believe it means giving up all of the things that are fun, taste good, ect. Good health is a choice The truth is that you CAN enjoy life to the fullest and stay healthy doing it! My job is to show you how by giving you information on aging and disease and pointing you toward great products and resources to make it possible for you to live a better life, by avoiding secondary aging as much as possible. Focus On What You Can ControlThe relationship between aging and disease is sometimes deliberately distorted to make you believe that certain diseases are inevitable with age, like arthritis, heart disease, and senility. You can prevent these conditions despite what you may have been told. The impression that the advertising media wish to convey is that genetics is destiny, and that if you have a family history of a certain disease, you are destined to suffer from it. I call this popular mythology. Lifestyle diseases are largely preventable. While it’s true that secondary aging is related to your age, it is not dependent on age. These conditions are more likely to affect older people because years of bad nutrition and lack of exercise has its consequences. Take Control of Your HeathSome of the topics on this site may not seem to be directly related to antiaging, but the relationship between aging and lifestyle diseases makes it necessary to include them, and show you how they can be avoided, or even reversed if possible. Check out my antiaging blog as I will be posting items of interest that I come across sometimes on a daily basis. The bottom line about aging and disease is that both are very much under your control, if you have the right information and the will.
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