Its time for healthy eating, looking carefully after or nutrition, vitamins and mineral consumtion in order to keep our wellness. 

"Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength."
--Betty Friedan


Many people find that life after 50 is the time of reinventing the self. Some of us  women undergo menopause while men experience Partial Androgen Deficiency of the Aging which better known as male menopause or might suffer impotence  and like any other aspect in our wellness, our vision or memory could also erode when aging.
     

Quite often, our children and our parents have moved on, and are left to focus on our authentic self, our long delayed goals and dreams, brand new dreams and goals, our inner, spiritual life and our plans for a healthy, rewarding second act to our life.


One thing we restless Baby Boomers know for sure is that we don't plan to spend our final years being an invalid or confined in an institution of any kind. We'd rather be writing novels, swimming laps every day, playing tennis, marching for peace or maybe just shopping for fresh flowers for our dining room table.

To insure this unencumbered freedom may require a major alteration to our midlife lifestyle, health, diet and wellness plans.

Anti aging treatments become intrigue somewhat. We might find ourselves in need of a less stressful lifestyle, a diet overhaul, and a fitness wake-up call.



Pay Those Insurance Premiums in Your Fifties


Begin today for a transformative perfect fit:  give birth to a spiritual, creative, and more mindful self.  Know that the choices you implement now regarding your personal wellness, healthy lifestyle, salubrious diet, fitness program, wholesome eating, and a switch to eating wholesome foods will be the backbone of the rest of your journey and the foundation that supports your goals and dreams.


Eat a more alkaline diet--a diet that emphasizes fresh fruit, vegetables, roots and tubers, nuts and legumes and watch your calcium level by consumption of low fat dairy products. Get rid of prepared foods, foods with saturated fats in them, sugary foods, foods with chemical additives, and excessive alcohol consumption.


Keeping weight and not smoking can reduce death rates by 40 percent, and cardiovascular disease events, such as stroke or heart attack, by 30 percent in elderly persons.
 

The good news:  these benefits accrued to people who didn't adopt the healthier lifestyle until middle age .The authors of this study concluded that "people who newly adopt a healthy lifestyle in middle-age experience a prompt benefit of lower rates of cardiovascular disease and mortality." Now how's that for a great incentive to act now?


Did You Want That Scan For Here Or To Go?


Age-related disease does not necessarily go hand-in-hand with aging.  We need to find new role models who are enjoying an active, vigorous old age thanks to having paid attention to some basic requirements of the body.  People today will no longer accept being passive recipients of authoritarian medical care.


There has been a social-cultural change happening in the past decade or so with a shift of the responsibility for health and wellness on the individual and not on the conventional medical system.  You don't have to be a deer startled in the headlights of your conventional M.D. announcing at your routine office visit that you have some totally unsuspected, never imagined, incurable disease that came from God-Knows-Where.  Not if you're paying attention and living a healthy lifestyle.  This Website, www.lifestyle-after50.com, will continue to feature information, research and articles about just how to go about doing that.


Just look to the rise of alternative, integrative, holistic and complementary care medical systems.  And look to the rapidly growing success rates Cancer Treatments of America (CTA) care facilities which offer traditional cancer treatments approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) such as surgery, radiation, chemotherapy, and stem cell transplants.  Also offered are nutritional support , naturopathic medicine, mind-body medicine, spiritual counseling and other complementary and alternative therapies are also available. There's a whole new world of healing to discover when you become your own patient. 


What You Eat Equals How Well You Age


Your body doesn't let you get away with the nutritional sins it let you slide with as recently as during your Forties.  Now good nutrition plays a major role in your health from day to day or you pay.

Eat a low salt (preferably Sea Salt) diet, but be sure you are getting enough potassium; a low-fat diet is mandatory; you need a diet with plenty of fruits, vegetables and fiber.  This diet will reduce your age-related risks of heart disease, stroke, osteoporosis, diabetes, and other chronic diseases that are often age-related.



How Much Exercise Is Enough to Be Healthy?


You don't have to start practicing to run a marathon or compete in a triathlon to be fit in middle age.  The best benefits for the majority of middle-aged people come from just moderate levels of exercise, as compared to those of your peers leading a sedentary life.   Extreme physical activity is not only not needed for optimum health, but may cause injuries and diseases.


A recent study showed that engaging in weight training regularly can offset muscle shrinkage and functional impairment associated with again.  Seniors who participated in this study for six months of gentle exercises had almost as much energy and strength as people less than half their age.
 

And never forget the many, many benefits of walking every day or several times per week.   Don't forget that even the smallest amount of exercise boosts energy.  You really will feel more alive and motivated after a stroll around the block.   You'll feel better about yourself too--doesn't hurt to bring up that self-esteem a couple of notches.  And you'll sleep better that night.


Better your Lifestyle
 

1.  Gather information about the mind-body connection, and how the body heals itself.  Practice using it to heal small things like a sprain so you'll be ready when tougher healing challenges come along.  Never forget that you are a perfect, whole and healthy divine being. 

2.  One-half of all visits paid to doctors' offices each year can be directly attributed to stress.  If we can use our mind/body connection to make ourselves sick, we can use it to heal ourselves.

3.  Keep a positive attitude. Believe you will stay fit and healthy, and you will.  Along with this positive attitude, grow your spiritual foundation, beliefs, rituals, and readings.   Stay close to positive people and avoid negative ones. Remember in any situation there is one thing that is always true:  This, too, shall pass.

4.  Everything will get better if you meditate. Learn how to quiet the chatter that keeps you from being your authentic self.  You can't hear your higher consciousness when the monkey-mind starts pestering you with needless thoughts about what's for lunch, what's on TV tonight, or who won on that game show you watched yesterday.

Focus on your breaths going in and coming out.  When a thought comes into your mind, look at it as you would a passing cloud, say to yourself, "Thought," and go back to watching your breathing.  If you are a beginner and you can do this for ten minutes, that's good.  With time, it will get longer.

Many studies have proved that stress levels of the body are greatly reduced.  One study had students meditate for only 20 minutes for five days.  Researchers reported that they all had lower levels of the stress hormone cortisol in their saliva after a stress test, compared with students who got five days of instruction in a relaxation technique that didn't include meditation.

5.  Be mindful.  Connect with your inner wisdom and higher consciousness.  Pay attention to your intuitions. They teach and warn.  Learn how to live an inspired life.  You can be inspired as to what to eat, drink, and exercise to take and when it's time to rest, among other things.  Use your body's higher wisdom.   Listen to the still, small voice that is meant to guide you.  "As you sow, so shall you reap." (Job 4:8)  Sow wellness.  Sow health.

6.   Here's another big advantage of healthy habits. Follow the advice here on www.lifestyle-after50.com, and in addition to living to a healthy, active 100 years old, you can also enjoy an active, rewarding sex life.  Good sex is the result of good attitude and good health.


Studies show that when people believe they are fitter, they are. So do some honest inventorying of your weekly exercise routines, goals for improving your health and wellness. Write out plans for how you can better your lifestyle to in shape, more creative and more relaxing.  Keep learning about new healthy foods so that you can add variety and newness to your healthy eating habits, and discover new wholesome foods.