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Welcome to the 1th issue of our newsletter:

Healthy World Digest

In this issue:

* Anti aging supplements

* Antiaging herbs

* Antiaging exercise

* Recipe: Pasta, kasha (quinoa), stew

Oh, and we wont harass you with numerous mailings or with articles that are longer than the Bible.

Just a few important, interesting, up to date, super beneficial health items that you could easily apply to you life or pass along to loved ones.

Is it possible to "antiage." What can we do about aging?

First things first.

Can we really turn back the clock?

Physically? That is, is antiaging possible at this time?

No.

Pure and simple. No.

You can't turn around the aging process unless you mean by it that you can turn around some conditions that are reversible. But normal aging is not reversible.

What you can do is simply attain whatever potential you have at whatever age you find yourself in. But you aren't going to run as fast at 60 as you did at 20. Not unless there was something wrong with you at 20.

Aging sets in motion several processes that we have no idea on how to turn back or even keep at precisely the same place.

For example, cells reproduce but reproductions are microscopically imperfect, for many cycles. In time, as imperfect cells birth more and more imperfect cells, signs of aging increase.

Also, as cells age, they lose increasingly more fluid or water.

Infants are in the main water. Seniors are not. This fluid loss leads to all kinds of cosmetic and performance loss. Just compare the ashy skin of an 80 year old to the smooth skin of a toddler.

And yet, some people seem to be doing something right. And, maybe are a little genetically lucky. Dick Clark, for example. Until recently.

So, what are the basic things that you can do to reach your potential. Just a few simple measures to hold back aging and seemingly "turn back the clock"

Let's start with the basics. Eat sensibly. Exercise consistently. Get some sunshine, every day, if possible. Drink lots of healthy water.

Healthy, clean, plentiful water cannot be overstressed. Our whole site is based on this idea. There are a very few signs of aging that are consistent and that we assume are a cause and/or result of aging.

Losing water is one of them, ie dehydration. You can't completely avoid it but it can be delayed.

Here are some more particulars.

* Antiaging herbs

How about a pair of antiaging herbs? .

Be sure to incorporate ginger and garlic into your life.

The two herbs have so many benefits that they may address issues you have no idea about. They could help you stave off cancer, hypertension, arthritis, diabetes, infections.

Best included fresh in foods or teas. But, if you have to take supplementally, that's fine too.

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* Antiaging supplements

How about a pair of the best antiaging supplements?

I would go with two antiaging vitamins. A surprise here is that one of the vitamins is not what we commonly think of as the King of vitamins, vitamin C. Vitamin C is great. If you?re over 30, you should likely take some.

But these Two vitamins are even more vital for antiaging.

Vitamin E. The more we learn, the more is vitamin E viewed as necessary for basic cardiovascular wellness and for combating age-enhancing free radicals.

It is difficult to get enough vitamin E in foods to stave off aging-related processes so getting some via supplements would be smart as you age.

Even more vital than vitamin E is vitamin D. Healthy World has a whole section on vitamin D (presently being moved onto another server) and for good reason.

Vitamin D, really more of a hormone than vitamin, is more and more being seen as a master nutrient that addresses just about every major condition including mental health.

Taking in vitamin D from the sun, about 20 - thirty minutes daily, is one of the best things you can do for youth and vitality.

I've noticed I feel better and am happier on days I get some rays wearing only shorts and sandals.

On days you can't get sun, taking a vitamin D3 supplement is a pretty good substitute.

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* Antiaging exercise

Exercise is of critical importance especially as societies around the world become more sedentary. But what exercise is properly hailed as the best antiaging exercise?

Most exercise is antiaging but there is one in particular, or a particular group, that merits the designation of antiager.

Play. That's right. What kids and teens do all the time, at least before the internet, video games and cable TV.

Running, swimming, weightlifting, calisthenics: all good but if you really want to put off aging, play active sports. Basketball. Tennis. A brisk game of softball or touch football. Martial arts would qualify too.

There are many possible reasons for the superiority of active games. My two cents.

Games force you to start-stop, like a type of exercise that's more and more being seen as great for health -> interval training.

Also, games force you to perform tasks that you would never do under controlled exercise conditions.

A basketball rebound where your arms are stretched way up, while legs are scissored in an awkward leap. A sprint to third base punctuated by a slide. A football catch, quick pivot, run to sideline then downfield.

Now, I'm not expecting you to quite do all of that at 70. Or, maybe so. But even older people could play a gentler game of tennis or a quickened game of golf.

Games also make you to go a little beyond yourself. Not timing your workouts or keeping your eye on some gauge, games allow your competitive spirit to drive your activity to greater heights.

Finally, games are fun. Good for your mental health. No questionable reverie you see during cardio classes. Instead the pure joy of play.

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* Recipe: Pasta, kasha, stew

YouHoo! Lucky you. Remembered to include a recipe in this month's newsletter.

This is a real family dish, if your family is from Eastern Europe. I've enjoyed many a classic dish the Eastern Europeans call Varnishkas.

It's basically bow tie pasta, topped with cooked whole grain buckwheat (I get Wolff's Kasha) and topped with some stew: chicken, vegetable or beef.

I looked at ways to make dish a little more health friendly and short of substituting, oh, beef flavored soyballs and broccoli for potatoes, it was kind of tough.

Come to think of it, broccoli doesn't sound too bad.

Well here was my twist. Buckwheat is healthy enough but its nutritional profile is very near pasta. So, the dish is too full of carbs. I thought I'd substitute quinoa for buckwheat.

Quinoa is a low carb, high protein, high fiber super grain that's quite tasty. great in this kind of dish. Can also make a good pasta substitute in other dishes.

Just make sure not to overcook or else it turns very soggy.

Well, hope you enjoyed this month's issue of HWD. Are you working on your New Years resolutions? If so, great. If not, hey, there's 4 months left. Don't give up.

See you next month!

Sal

Healthy Water