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How to Stay Younger Longer

Staying Young = The Pursuit of Healthy Lifestyle Choices

While there's no stopping time, there's plenty you can do to foil the aging process. How well you age depends largely on your lifestyle. Your chronological age doesn't necessarily correlate with how old your body thinks it is. According to Michael Roizen, coauthor of YOU: Staying Young, "there are about 191 things that go into calculating your real age and 149 of those things are within your control to change." You can, for example, quit smoking cultivate strong social support, receive regular chiropractic care to insure a healthy immune system, get regular exercise and eat right. Regardless of your lifestyle up until this point, making healthful changes today can turn back the clock- or at least slow it down. 

When eating healthy and proper exercise are added to a healthy lifestyle, research show that you may wind up lowering excess blood sugar levels, even if you're not diabetic. This is turn, could help you maintain your memory. Fighting the current trend of an unconscious lifestyle and the expectation that modern medicine will someday find an answer is difficult and certainly requires a significant degree of commitment. But, as a Roizen says, "the promise of enjoying a 25 year old's energy well into your 60s is pretty strong motivation" to adopt a healthy lifestyle now. 

People averaging less than six hours of sleep during the work week over a period of years were shown to have almost five times the chance of developing type 2 Diabetes compared to those averaging six to eight hours of sleep, according to research presented March 11, 2009 at the American Heart Association Conference in Florida.

The Bottom Line... 

All the studies this week point to the importance of developing and sustaining healthy lifestyle habits if we are to live a healthy life. And certainly one factor in being able to enjoy a healthy level of energy throughout one's life, is getting adequate sleep. In addition, we often hear in the office that new practice members almost always experience improved sleep and more energy following their series of adjustments. Let's include chiropractic in your healthy lifestyle. 
  

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