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Extending Your Health Span

Your Health Span depends on your Lifestyle. If you knew exactly how to do that, you would do it.

Good News: You don't need to start perfect. Start; and learn to by practice to be better.

You can significantly increase your health today, and your healthy lifespan, if your lifestyle allows you to look after yourself.

Changing Your lifestyle to Live Longer?

We only take actions that make sense to us, based on our values, and what we believe about the world. If we believe that becoming obese, and losing mobility and putting up with pain is Local File"normal aging" we're in trouble before we start.

What you Eat Matters

What you eat profoundly affects your long-term health. Your body will adapt to whatever diet you choose to feed it, but not without long term adverse results, if you choose your diet badly.

Sadly, there is strong commercial and political pressure to sell you FOOD of various kinds.

Much of the well-known information about food, even "official recommendations" are propaganda, and not science based.

Take an interest in food, and slowly you will learn how food is used in the body.

If your health is good on a mixed diet, that's an easy diet to follow. If you keep sugar to a minimum and carbohydrates quite low, that should serve your well for a lifetime. However, Local Filehistorically people have not had the control over food that most modern people have. The body doesn't expect to get the same diet, year after year for 70+ years. Until recently, that wasn't even possible, and it might not be good for us.

If the mixed diet, a little bit of everything, is starting to give you problems, there are other choices. Over time, whatever is the "best diet" for you will probably change.

Diseases Are Connected

You should already know that Local Filemetabolic syndrome is caused by your lifestyle, and can easily be resolved. Obesity and Type 2 diabetes can be overcome.

Heart disease, has an unknown "cause" but they now think that "inflammation" is the problem. Inflammation is closely related to lifestyle too. As is your cardio-vascular fitness.

Local FileCancers derive from pre-cancers, that have to find a metabolic pathway to grow and develop. If your body is healthy, that's very difficult. Cancers need glucose to grow, and most cancers find oxygen toxic. This provides two opportunities to attack cancers long before they become tumours.

Strokes are less common if you eat saturated fats.

Local FileAlzheimer's is a lifestyle disease. It's suggested the nutritional ketosis is protective.

Your Intention to be Healthy

If you don't intend to be healthy, your chances of success are small. Everyone can improve their health with better knowledge.

However, setting goals and good intentions are not enough. That doesn't work in the long run.

It does help to put your intention in writing.

Local FileIt also helps to keep a health diary, even if the entries in it, are occasional.

Make time for the things you intend to do, like exercise, or spending social time with friends. Put it on the list.

Your Work and Activity

We were made to be active and working and thriving. You need a "work" to do. Preferably a task you love to do. You might also need the sort of work that earns you a living. If so expect to get paid.

Voluntary work, keeps you involved with others, and upgrades your skills. So long as you love to do it, being a volunteer is a healthy thing to do.

Your Family and Friends

We all need the company of other people. Other people give us good models to live up to, and ways to keep our social and intellectual skills alive.

Other people give us feedback on how we are progressing ourselves.

Your Capacity to Learn

Abandon trying to be healthy one disease at a time. Local FileMost of us have, or are developing "lifestyle" causes, for the diseases we have. Local Filemetabolic syndrome, Local FileAlzheimer's, Local Fileheart disease and rheumatoid arthritis, are all examples.

The solution is to keep your whole body healthy, not just parts of it. New information provides the building blocks for fresh concepts and different behaviours. However, trust in the new information has to be built. Do small low risk experiments with your new things you are learning.

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