Generally speaking, the health of normal people will reach the peak state around the age of 25, after which the human body will slowly enter the aging stage, health begins to decline, and after the age of 40, aging accelerates, and the functions of various parts of the body begin to decline. In addition to their own reasons, there are many external factors that cause our body to accelerate aging, the following is to introduce some external factors, I hope you can pay more attention to your daily life, try to delay the aging of your body.
| Trans fats accelerate heart aging
The survey found that every 2% increase in trans fat in the total daily dietary calories increased the risk of coronary heart disease by 25%. In addition, a high intake of trans fats increases the risk of diseases such as diabetes, colon cancer, prostate cancer, breast cancer, and gallstones.
The sources of trans fatty acids can be divided into natural and synthetic two, and the main ones we need to control are synthetic. Common foods containing trans fatty acids include cream pastries, chocolate pies, pastry snacks, wafer biscuits, filled cakes, egg yolk pies, cocoa butter chocolate products, ice cream, french fries, etc.
When buying food, you can focus on the ingredient list. Where labeled with artificial fat, margarine, vegetable cream, creamer, cocoa butter, refined vegetable oil, shortening, artificial ghee, vegetable fat and other ingredients, may contain trans fatty acids, as little as possible.
A way to take care of the heart
1. Press and knead the Neiguan acupoint
Stretch out your arm with your palm up, clench your fist and raise your wrist, you can see that there are two tendons in the middle of the arm, and the inner guan point is between the two tendons that are two fingers wide from the wrist. Press and knead Neiguan points to help blood qi flow smoothly, press down vertically with your thumb, and knead for about 3 minutes each time until you feel sore and numb.
2. Clap your arms
Patting the inside of the arm to stimulate the meridians is equivalent to giving a benign stimulation to the heart and helping to increase the blood supply function of the heart.
| Alcohol and drugs accelerate liver aging
There are two common substances that accelerate liver aging: alcohol and drugs. Studies have found that 58% of liver cancers are alcohol-related. Once drunk, hepatitis may be triggered; Regular consumption of 3 glasses of beer a day can become an independent risk factor for liver cancer; For every 10g increase in alcohol per day, the risk of liver cancer increases by 4%.
As the largest detoxification organ of the human body, the liver is responsible for decomposing toxic substances absorbed by the human body, improper medication or excessive consumption may increase the burden on the liver and damage liver function.
Ways to take care of the liver
1. Pay attention to your diet
Daily intake of 90g of high-quality protein can repair liver cells and promote the regeneration of liver cells; Vitamin C can reduce the damage of free radicals to liver cells, and can appropriately increase the intake of green pepper, kale, cauliflower, etc.; Usually, you can eat more mushrooms, quail eggs, sesame, malt and other foods.
2. The safest amount of alcohol to drink is 0
A drop is healthy if it doesn't stick. Adults who have to drink alcohol should be strictly limited. The recommended daily drinking limit is: beer 1 listening (350 ml) or red wine 150 ml or white wine 25~50 ml.
3. Stretch your waist
The main sentiment of the liver is mainly unimpeded. Working for a long time or maintaining one movement can easily lead to liver qi stagnation. Stretch out, people will feel comfortable, to achieve the role of regulating emotions, broadening the chest and managing qi.
| Laziness accelerates the aging of the spleen
Lack of exercise is almost a common disease of modern people, and the main limbs and muscles of the spleen, if your limbs and muscles are usually rarely active, how can the spleen and stomach be strong? In addition, eating too much greasy food will also hurt the spleen; Spicy food will consume qi and hurt the body, cold and cold food will damage the spleen and stomach yang, and too much sweets will produce phlegm and dampness.
The way to raise the spleen
1. Regularity of life
Exercise frequently, do not be hungry for "fear of trouble", but also damage the stomach, resulting in a weak spleen and stomach.
2. Rub your belly
Half an hour after meals, the palm of one hand or the root of the palm is attached to the abdomen, the other hand is pressed on the back of the hand, rotate clockwise, long-term persistence, can increase gastrointestinal peristalsis, enhance spleen and stomach function.
| Smoke and dust accelerate lung aging
The lungs like fresh air very much, and walking in nature is a good way to nourish the lungs. But there are a lot of turbid gas in life that hurts the lungs and is ignored by us. This includes cigarettes and fumes. There are hundreds of harmful substances in tobacco, and 69 carcinogens have been identified, which will increase the risk of lung cancer, nasopharyngeal cancer, esophageal cancer, gastric cancer and so on.
In addition to the well-known cigarette hazards, the smell of the bathroom, the oil smoke in the kitchen, the dust during cleaning, the musty smell in the empty room, and the odor when rummaging through old things can cause damage to the lungs.
Ways to take care of the lungs
1. Lung soup
You can drink some lung soup in daily life:
Take 2 slices of ginger, 3 pieces of white radish, and 3 roots of coriander, remove the leaves and leave the stems. Put it in the pot together, add an appropriate amount of water and rock sugar, boil for 15 minutes and serve.
2. Take a deep breath
Inhaling fresh air into the lungs by taking deep breaths increases lung capacity and makes our lungs healthier. When exercising, it will strengthen the contraction of the lungs, and when you feel phlegm, you will consciously cough twice, which can more easily cough out the dirty things on the lung lobes.
3. Self-protection
In addition to opening the windows regularly every day for ventilation, it is also necessary to frequently dry old things to remove mold and wear dust masks when cleaning.
| Heavy salt accelerates kidney aging
For adults with light physical activity, the recommended intake of salt is 5g/day, but the average daily intake of mainland residents is about 12g, which is seriously exceeded! The kidneys are most afraid of eating too much salty things, and when we eat too much salt, the excess sodium will be excreted from the kidneys and damage the kidneys.
Ways to care for the kidneys
1. Pay attention to high-salt foods
In addition to paying attention to salt restriction in daily cooking, we should also pay attention to "invisible salt" - processed foods such as soy sauce, chicken essence, monosodium glutamate, pickles, and cooked foods contain hidden salt, which should also be paid attention to.
2. Tiptoe
Standing on tiptoe can stimulate the foot less yin kidney meridian, dredge the foot three yin meridians, and make the qi in the body run upward, thereby warming the kidneys and stimulating the qi.
| Ultraviolet rays accelerate skin aging
UV rays have more impact on skin aging than any other environmental factor. Sunlight contains a large number of ultraviolet rays, ultraviolet rays can thicken the stratum corneum of the epidermis, but also damage the elastic fibers of the dermis layer, causing photoaging of the skin, accelerating the process of skin aging, accelerating the synthesis of melanin, making the skin collagen production insufficient, slowly appear loose, wrinkled, rough, darkened. No skincare product is as important as sun protection.
A way to take care of the skin
1. Pay attention to sun protection
Do a good job of sun protection before going out in the sunny season, sun exposure can promote calcium absorption in the body, but not excessively.
2. Pay attention to your diet
Daily life can eat more foods rich in provitamin A and carotene, which can enhance skin resistance, improve skin condition, and help reduce the production of spots. The top three people rich in provitamin A and carotene in life are: mango, broccoli, carrot.
| Small ways to slow down aging
1. Good living habits
Although aging is a natural law, if we develop good living habits, we can delay aging. Don't stay up late, go to bed before 11 p.m. every night, so that your metabolism can function properly.
2. Avoid tobacco and alcohol
In this way, the possibility of cardiovascular disease can be reduced, high blood pressure, diabetes and other cardiovascular diseases will damage the microvessels in the brain, in order to delay brain aging, control blood pressure, blood sugar and cholesterol, maintain a healthy weight.
3. Always eat "nutrients"
In daily life, try to avoid some diets that are harmful to the body, occasionally contact is not a big problem, try not to eat for a long time. Eat more foods that are good for major organs, ensure balanced nutrition, enhance the resistance of various organs, and delay their aging.
4. Aerobic exercise
It is recommended that middle-aged people participate in aerobic exercise with moderate difficulty and easy to adhere to, and their oxygen intake can reach 8 times that of quiet time, including walking, running, cycling, swimming, aerobics, etc. Long-term exercise can increase hemoglobin content, improve immunity, improve cardiopulmonary function, and prevent coronary heart disease and hypertension.