| - | How to look younger?Simple health and beauty tips to delay aging | While there is no magic treatment for making you young again, it is indeed possible to look and stay younger if you take better care of yourself and follow a few simple anti-aging tips from Allure: | | | THE BASICS: More than 90 percent of aging is genetic. But 10 percent, we can control with sun avoidance, applying sunscreen without fail, and not smoking.
REDUCE STRESS: Chronic stress wears you out continuously over time, causing long-term injury to your body's cells. In fact, little stressors of everyday life can be even more damaging to you than a major trauma like losing your job or getting divorced. So, how can you avoid this damage caused by everyday life? Starting a strength-training program can make your real age 1.7 years younger, and calling a friend daily reduces the aging stress causes by eight years. (Related article: Reiki for stress relief)
SLEEP: Regularly skimping on sleep can age you. However, regularly getting too much sleep -- more than nine hours a night -- appears to age you by several years as well. The optimal amount is six to seven hours for women and seven to eight for men.
DIET: You can more powerfully influence the skin through what you ingest than what you put on it. Therefore, it's important to have a diet rich in essential fatty acids, especially omega-3 fatty acids. | |
| ANTIOXIDANTS: No matter what sunscreen you're wearing, the skin is  generating free radicals that break down collagen and cause skin cancer. Antioxidants provide another line of defense against environmental injury to the skin.
SEX: Great sex can stave off all sorts of age-related problems, from weakened immune systems to chronic stress. It releases feel-good chemicals like endorphins and oxytocin, before and during climax. Plus, it can lower blood pressure and increase cardiovascular health.
SUN: Believe it or not, a little bit of unprotected sun exposure -- 10 to 20 minutes a day can help your body produce vitamin D, which decreases aging of your arteries and immune system. | | | |
