Remi Diagbare

I have a passion for aging gracefully. I am one of those who believe that your age shouldn?t determine the substance of your existence. That is to say, the fact that you were born 60 years ago does not mean you should carry it as a badge by looking the age.

I admire women locally and internationally, who have beaten the age scrounge and are looking ten/twenty years younger than their biological age. Age is only a number, you are as old as you want to be is a popular saying in beauty circles, which is true. If you want to look thirty, you work towards it and do everything possible not to look a day older. Some women go the extremes by putting themselves under the surgeons scapel. I have no criticism for how it is achieved, what I advise every woman is do all it takes not to age before you age.

Did you know that from age 35 the signs of aging begins to creep in, slowing down the extent of deep crevices on the face and physical quality will depend much more on taking some of the issues treated below very seriously.
After all, age can just be a number rather than substance. Read on.

Calcium for your bones

Healthy bones are important to not only great posture and good looks, they?re also extremely important in protecting against fractures and breaks that can age you so quickly and severely limit your ability to get around and do the things you need to do. The two most important nutrients for maintaining bone health are calcium and vitamin D. Bones require the mineral calcium to be strong and dense, and calcium requires vitamin D in order for absorption. Calcium is taken away from our bones every day to meet various other needs in the body, such as for normal metabolism, and then put back when we take in calcium.

If you don?t give your body calcium, the bones will continue to be stripped of calcium and become porous and extremely weak, leading to osteoporosis ? a disease that you don?t want to have, above all costs (this will be treated in this column soon). You can find calcium in all dairy products and vitamin D is normally added too ? look for it on the label. Calcium is also supplied in dark green leafy vegetables, like pumpkin leaves (ugu) fish with softened bones for eating (sardines), and calcium-fortified foods, such as orange juice. You can get a day?s supply worth of vitamin D in just 1 hour of sunshine! But remember to use sunscreen as we are exposed to if you?re going to be out in the sun much longer.

Healthy mind

Above all, even more so than losing your physical abilities, mental decline is the most debilitating condition of all. Alzheimers, a disease that affects some people over the age of 65. There is no known cure for Alzheimer?s, although many experts believe that proper nutrition may play a role in the prevention and sometimes reversal of the disease. Even in people who do not have Alzheimer?s, poor nutrition may contribute to a loss of memory and mental alertness. B-vitamins play an important role in maintaining mental abilities, and should be included in a healthy diet. B-vitamins are found in meats, poultry, milk products, fruits and vegetables, nuts and seeds, legumes and whole grains ? all of which are found in a balanced diet.
Do you eat a healthy, balanced diet? If not, start focusing on natural, unprocessed foods and consider adding a multivitamin to your regimen.

Ageless fashion sense

It?s a kind of scary vision; to see someone dressed in something that doesn?t enhance their beauty, but detracts because it wears them, not the other way around. However, one can understand this trend when you see some of the fashion that is foisted on the so-called ?older? crowd ? and by ?older? I mean over 45.

There is a tendency in this society to conscript older women to the tying of wrappers and boubous, who says you can?t wear fitted clothes and torn jeans? who says because you are fifty you shouldn?t wear clothes to accentuate your figure. Mind you the word is accentuate, not terty. Your sense of style should not be old but, zesty and fun.

Age is a state of mind, and if you are happy with the way you look and your fashion sense, dress to make yourself happy first. It?s just nice to know, that there are ways to be comfortable, fashionable and that changing your taste doesn?t mean you?ve become boring, just perhaps a little more subtle with your accents.

Source: Vanguard