Have you inherited your response to stress?
Do stressed out parents produce stressed out kids? According to psychiatrists there is a link. Parental stress places the child at a great risk of becoming stressed as well.
Besides the genetic risk of becoming stressed, children of stressed parents also learn the tendency to get stressed out in reaction to life’s challenges and this is copied directly from our parents.
Since stress accelerates the aging process – inheriting a stress gene could be bad news for your anti aging health.
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Four core exercises to try for free
If you haven’t tried a core exercise program yet – here’s a few free core exercises you can have a go at without calling in a personal trainer.
One of the best things about a core exercise regimen is that you can do it for free in the comfort of your own home. All you need is a fitness ball and somewhere soft like a carpeted floor or a mat and you’re ready to go.
Core exercise can be one of the easiest forms of anti aging exercise to fit into your schedule – however busy you are. Even better – core exercises help strengthen your core and firm those stubborn areas of abdominal flab which settle as we get older.
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Why laughter is a great anti aging medicine
Stress has been shown to accelerate aging and disease – anything you can do to reduce stress has to be good. So how about laughing more?
Recent research has shown that laughter really does help us in managing stress. Adopting a humorous view of life’s difficulties can take the edge off everyday stressful situations.
Laughter prevents stress building up and stops the release of damaging stress hormones into the body.
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Ten ideas for a home gym on a budget
The cost of gym membership can seem like a luxury in these cash strapped times – especially if you don’t go as often as you should. But getting enough exercise – weight bearing and cardio – is important for anti aging health
Even the most committed gym bunny may want to top up at home between visits. Setting up a home exercise area can be a great way to stay fit without spending a fortune.
The key thing is not to try and reproduce what the best gyms offer. That’s really what a gym membership buys – use of expensive exercise equipment without the outlay.
But do you really need the high cost hardware to keep fit?
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Cardio exercise the fun way – dance fitness
Cardio workouts in t he gym can be a chore but doing regular cardio exercise is vital for healthy aging. Combining cardio exercise with the fun of dance is a great way to keep fit over 40.
As we all know heart pumping aerobic exercise is an essential part of any anti aging health strategy. But – for many of us – “workout boredom” can get in the way.
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Swim your way to core strength
Many of us now know the importance of core strength exercise as you get older to firm up abdominal flab, build flexibility and prevent back problems.
You may have looked for the best free core exercises on the web without realizing that the solution may lie in a familiar activity that you haven’t even considered as core exercise – swimming.
Swimming offers you something like a positive double whammy. For starters it’s an extremely good form of aerobic exercise – flooding your brain with oxygen and raising your pulse rate.
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Aging is not the cause of high blood pressure
Did you know that as a woman once you get into your mid 50’s you are more likely to suffer from high blood pressure than a man?
As a woman – though the risk of high blood pressure increases with age – getting older does not in itself cause high blood pressure – the root causes lie elsewhere.
High blood pressure is a serious condition because of its effects – it will likely ruin your chances of healthy aging. The worrying thing is that though you may have high blood pressure – the chances are you don’t even know it.
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How to cope with stress – eight practical tips
Learning how to cope with stress is important for healthy aging.
The effects of stress impact on your looks and health so you need a few tricks up your sleeve to help you cope when it matters.
Here’s eight practical tips – coping strategies in the jargon – that will help you manage stress better when life throws the bad stuff your way.
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Walk your way to a better butt
Great legs and a toned butt are a real confidence booster and a svelte lower half makes you look instantly younger.
Healthy aging means keeping your muscles toned and body fat under control. But that’s not just about exercising more it’s also about exercising smarter.
Cardiovascular exercise helps burn off calories but the trick is to pick the right cardio exercise if you want a younger looking butt and a great swimsuit shape.
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Improve your core strength for healthy aging
You really need to focus on core strength as you get older.
Although loss of core muscle tissue starts as early as in our 30s and 40s, it’s later in life that we really start to notice how much those changes affect us.
As core muscle fibers shrink and become less flexible, our backs are no longer as strong as they once were and our stomachs start to look flabby.
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