How can you prevent wrinkles?
Unfortunately, there may not be much you can do; a study from
Denmark shows that skin wrinkling and aging are influenced heavily
by genetic factors (Age and Ageing, January 2006). However,
this doesn't mean that you can smoke or spend many hours in the sun,
two behaviors that are known to increase wrinkling. The authors
studied twins to show that skin aging is associated equally between
genetic and environmental factors. You increase your chances of
having aged, wrinkled skin by smoking, exposing your skin frequently
to sunlight or being thin. You are less likely to suffer wrinkling
if you are married and are not poor or depressed. The researchers
also found that looking older with severely wrinkled skin is
associated with dying earlier.
How about memory loss; will
exercise protect you? Nobody really knows how exercise helps prevent
loss of mental function, but every factor that helps protect you
from getting a heart attack or stroke also protects you from
dementia. Anything that protects blood vessels also protects your
brain. Heart attacks and dementia are associated with eating too
much fat, saturated fat, fried foods, refined carbohydrates, too
many calories, and not eating enough vegetables, nuts, beans and
other seeds; being overweight, not exercising, taking more than two
alcoholic drinks a day, and smoking. The Nurses’ Health Study from
the Harvard School of Public Health shows that exercising your
muscles improved cognitive function in older women. Another study
shows that more than 85 percent of middle-aged people who start an
exercise program drop out in the first six weeks. Those who stay
exercise with others:a spouse or friend, with a personal trainer, or
in an organized group or class.
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