what is the key to aging gracefully?
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I think part of it is your own attitude. If you accept yourself and feel good about yourself, then you will probably appear as a more youthful person than your real age. Also, try to find ways to avoid stress.\n\nThe physical part can be eating plenty of veggies and fruits. Cut down on drinking, smoking and fatty foods (or eliminate these if you have that kind of will power). \n\nGo too realage.com,take their test and subscribe for the weekly newsletters for more tips on being younger than your actual age.
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You're always in your prime if you keep mentally fit. Our bodies will deteriorate as time goes on, but as they say "you're only as old as you feel", does work. Let yourself enjoy the things you used to do, smile and laugh a lot, dance to music (even on your own), have a drink, go out for a meal.\n\nSmile at someone in the street you don't know - you'll be surprised at the response!
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Getting older!!\nOoh.....just aged some more......
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Exercise. Make a list. Keep it simple. Go on vacation. Go in the tanning bed.
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Think less and act more.\n\nDon't let the goal of preserving the past memories hold you from making new and better ones. There are risks, but that is what life is all about, taking risks. You do not want to live till 80 to start reflecting about what you should have done when you were younger.
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To start with, living a long time starts with genetics, which you have no control over.\n\nBeyond that, the less food you consume, and the more exercise you get over your lifetime, the longer you are likely to live.  In fact, it has been proven that starving yourself leads to a longer life span.\n\nEat very little fat, lots of rice, vegetables and fish.  Do not smoke, use drugs, or engage in unsafe behavior.  Avoid stress, become a simple farmer.\n\nYou can drink wine in small quantities, a couple glasses a week at most.\n\nAfter you have done those things, the next possibilities become more extreme.  You can take a very expensive regimin of vitamins and antioxidants that will help your cells resist ageing.\n\nLive long and prosper!
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Old is a state of mind, not an age.
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u might start becoming pale and fragile
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Stop buying into the "youth culture" on TV, ads, etc.  Live day-to-day and hope that with age you've acquired wisdom; wisdom will never fade like looks will.  Don't regret your past decisions.  Love nature - it is the only truth on this planet.  Help others.  Don't lie, exaggerate or embellish.  Honor your own opinions.
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It can be fatal if you do not take care of yourself. Take your medications and watch what you eat and exercise and you can live a long and healthy life.
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We are all getting older and most of us will some day become "aged".  A society is known and remembered for how it treats its weakest and most defenseless, and the aged are certainly part of that group.   \n\nA society can support its aged by enabling them to retain as much dignity and independence as possible.  This can be accomplished in a variety of ways, including establishment of affordable accessible housing and provision of home care services for those who can no longer quite keep up with the demands of running a household.  Meals on Wheels are important to many older people, as are special transportation services, telephone services for the deaf and hard of hearing, and assistive living devices such as "grabbers" to allow a person to pick up an item from the floor without bending, walkers, and various tools that make everyday tasks easier.  If each of us did a couple of hours a week of volunteer service to help the aged, their lives could probably be made much happier and less stressful and many more older people could continue to live in their own homes.  Kindness, caring and compassion go a long way and make a huge difference.\n\nThe aged need human contact and companionship, just as we all do.  Pairing elementary and high schools with seniors' complexes can often do mch to alleviate the loneliness of old age.  \n\nSupporting the aged is not the responsibility of governments alone, but part of the responsibility of all of us.  It is sometimes good to reflect, and to remember that the people we affect unthinkingly today may be our caregivers tomorrow.   Getting old is a fact of life.  My approach is to treat the aged of today the way I would like to be treated when I am old.
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As you age, your body becomes less resilient to any type of stress.  \nthings that get harder when you get older include, but are not limited to:\n1. starting an exercise program, \n2. recovering from surgery\n3. recovering from a hangover.  \n\nThink about your body like a car.  An old car might need a constant supply of oil, just like you might need a constant supply of vitamins now.  Alcohol can deprive your body of nutrients.  Since your body needs those nutrients more than it did say 18 years ago, then your body will react badly to the alcohol.
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Our family is dealing with this issue at the moment. My father in law exhibits dimensia, which might be alzheimers, or it could be related to depression or some other factor. In any case, exercising the mind is the key to avoiding dimensias. \n\nLearning to read music, or doing crosswork puzzles flexes the mind. Drinking Gensing or Ginko does little or nothing for the mind.\n\nHard work, exercising the mind is the only way to slow the onset of senility.
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A great body, good health, and a longer life.
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eat less, exercise more.\n\nno mystery.\n\nno cost.\n\nnot hard.
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(1) Care not what others think if you, be yourself and do your own thing.\n(2) It's OK to love an older woman.
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Remember all your life that the most important person in your life is you and if you do not take care of you then you are of very little use to any other person.  This means to take care of the body and mind.  Eat well but only what you need stay away from mind altering chemicals Study and learn as much as you can and never stop learning.  Treat other people as you would treat yourself.  Your chances of being 90 and over will be very high.  No guarantees of anything in life.