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Aging as a Whole is a Vicious Cycle
Whenever anyone seems to be aging so badly that signs of senility, feebleness, and disability are present, it’s important to investigate their lifestyle.
Problems crop up in a person’s daily routine that are too often ignored, especially when they are only “showing their age.” It is estimated that between a third and half of senility cases result from the following treatable factors: Malnutrition, side effects from drugs, smoking, alcohol abuse, dehydration, depression, inactivity.
All these factors begin in awareness, stemming either from neglect or from habit. Alone or in combination, any of these factors can dramatically affect how a person looks and acts.
Not drinking enough water every day is one of the most common conditions in old age, chronic dehydration being a major cause of preventable aging. It is an avoidable complication that leads to many problems.
The ultimate solution doesn’t lie with medicine but with personal change. People in nursing homes improve remarkably after altering their lives in the simplest ways–giving them a potted plant to tend, allowing them to make up their own menus and take charge of tidying their rooms. These people regain a sense of usefulness and worth.
Adapted from Ageless Body, Timeless Mind, by Deepak Chopra (Three Rivers Press, 1998).
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add your comment »people that had life time of bad habit are hard
for them too change, this tip do help , As I
learn on my own , I`m glad that people these day
are doing more too take care of them selfs!
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Adding more water to their diet will help their lifestyle, but it will be most beneficial if it is followed, or preceded, by introducing a diet rich in whole grains. That means subtracting white bread, white rice, white flour. No more refined grains. When whole grains are ingested, they need to be flushed out. It is very common that people who eat whole grains will turn to water when they first feel the brans and fibers of the grain picking up residual waste in their systems from a lifetime of not-so-great eating.
It's good to start small, but it's always good to have a "big picture" attitude when it's your quality of life, and life, being considered.
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I wish I could drink more water...instead I drink lots of different teas now. Warm drinks are probably better in the Winter anyway. I did a water tasting evening once where different types of mineral water were tested. Most of them had so many additives that they turned off the taste buds so much so that is some cases when the body should have needed lots of water after eating something salty, the body was not registering any need to drink water at all.
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As people age they forget to drink, their natural thirst register seems to diminish and they can go a whole day on one cup of tea. I agree with Deepak, drinking water has to be one of the best ways to stay well.
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A water pill would be a great invention against dehydration and help the skin to stay supple from the inside. Most of the foodstuffs today have chemicals that most likely use up any water content which would normally helpm to keep fluids stored in the body tissue. Not much use really in putting on creams on the outside of the skin when the drying up is happening to a greater extent in the inside.
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These are indeed wonderful tips to adopt in our daily life, these small changes can have a magical effect on our personality and wellbeing. Thank you once again Deepak, God Bless.
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