With increasing age, the human body inevitably enters the aging stage, which is a life journey that no one can escape, but people can accelerate or slow down the aging process through their own behavior, which has been confirmed by practice and theory. At present, scientists believe that the culprit of aging is the accumulation of oxygen free radical damage to human cells. Many external factors also accelerate human aging through this mechanism. Among the many factors of aging, in addition to genetic factors, other environmental and life factors are mostly under the control of people. Stay away from these ageing factors, and the human body will achieve longevity and health. What factors can accelerate aging?
1. Eating too much. One nutritionist called this "calorie-paved path to aging." In order to emphasize this point, some experts bluntly say that "the more you eat, the faster you die." This statement is not alarmist.
Eat too much, or not
A large number of animal tests have proved that proper food restriction for animals can prolong the life of animals. Especially in childhood, food restriction can make the body's immune system develop late, degenerate later, until middle age, the activity of the immune system remains at a high level. If he is overnourished in childhood, his cellular immune system develops rapidly, and after middle age, the immune system deteriorates rapidly, increasing the incidence of cancer and other aging diseases. Practice has proved that eating too much and overnutrition are the culprits leading to senile diseases such as hyperlipidemia, arteriosclerosis, hypertension, obesity, diabetes, etc. Study the diet of long-lived elderly people in ancient and modern China and abroad, and "eat less" is their common habit.
2. Eat too well. Eating too much essence leads to too little intake of vitamins and fiber, especially food fiber has laxative, detoxifying, anti-cancer, lipid-lowering effects, especially important for middle-aged and elderly people. Otherwise, it will cause a large amount of toxic metabolic decomposition in the intestine to be absorbed by the body, accelerating cell aging.
Eat more multigrains and eat more coarse grains
3. Too little exercise. The ancient Greek thinker Aristotle said: "The most likely thing to make people old is to be inactive for a long time." "It has also been said that chronic physical inactivity equals chronic suicide. Lack of exercise leads to premature aging, which has not only been confirmed by scientific experiments, but also confirmed by countless long-lived elderly people.
Moderate exercise is good for the body
4. Bad psychology. No narrow-minded and selfish person in ancient and modern China or abroad is long-lived and has a high life. Long-term narrow-mindedness and lust make him calculating, impetuous, and psychologically stressful, which directly causes the dysfunction of the human neuroendocrine system. This state of mind plays a more prominent role in accelerating the aging process of the human body than any other factor. The ancient longevity health practitioner Confucius followed the "benevolent life", and the core of Laozi's health preservation was "quiet and inactive".
Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching
5. Bad habits. Irregular sleep, irregular diet, is also one of the factors that accelerate aging, especially in the elderly, irregular life and living so that the already deteriorated various cells can not get normal rest and nutritional supplements, in the long run, human cells from structure to function is bound to accelerate aging. All kinds of staying up late, working overtime, clubbing, playing mahjong, and frequent parties are not the right choices for middle-aged and elderly people.
Stay up late, or not
6. Bad habits. Among bad habits, experts compare smoking to the number one killer of accelerating aging, and alcoholism as the second biggest killer. Smoking accelerates aging has been widely recognized, and there may be some confusion about the effects of alcohol on the human body. Alcohol has two sides to human health, people can stay young by drinking alcohol, and they can also accelerate aging by drinking. Heavy alcohol consumption increases the incidence of cardiovascular disease, accelerates brain damage, increases the incidence of cancer, and increases the chance of premature death.
Smoking, accelerated aging