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Eating Well For Healthy Aging Antioxidants: a Key to a Long and Healthy Life How do antioxidants help keep you young? They serve as “housekeepers” in the body, cleaning up free radicals—unstable particles that damage healthy cells and thereby contribute to aging and disease. Many of the fresh, organic and natural superfoods we sell contain high levels of antioxidants. These all-important nutrients help block and counteract damage from free radicals by stabilizing cells and neutralizing their harmful effects. Certain antioxidants, such as vitamin C, vitamin E and beta-carotene, must be obtained from food or a combination of food and supplements. The body manufactures others, such as CoQ10. Because the production of certain antioxidants declines with age, some experts feel it may be beneficial to boost levels through supplementation. USDA Food and Nutrition Center’s top food sources of antioxidants: small red beans blueberries red kidney beans pinto beans whole cranberries artichokes hearts blackberries prunes raspberries strawberries red delicious apples granny smith apples pecans sweet cherries plums russet potatoes black beans gala apples Source: USDA Food and Nutrition Center . Small Changes, Big Rewards In addition to nutrition, we’d be remiss if we didn’t discuss how lifestyle affects your biological age.
If it feels overwhelming, it might help to know that any positive change, no matter how small, is a step in the right direction to keep disease at bay and to keep you on the path of healthy aging. |
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