Beauty Tips: Natural Choices To Combat Ageing

Speaking at the Anti-Ageing Health and Beauty show, held at the London Olympia this past weekend, Geraldine McCulgan of the College of Naturopathic Medicine said: "What you eat today... you wear tomorrow."

The beauty therapist shared some helpful tips on natural choices for anti-ageing and the small changes that one can effect in one's lifestyle to help slow down ageing.

Accelerating ageing is affected by the following:

• Glycation - the process of sugar and it affects joints
• Inflammation
• Lack of nutrients
• Overload of toxins
• Free radical damages
• Stress
• Loss of ATP (Adenosine triphosphate) which regulates cellular energy
• Lack of oil and water

So if you want to slow down ageing, McCulgan recommends following a diet made up of whole grains, vegetables, legumes, mild-sweet and non-sweet fruits. One can also try the following things:

• Avoid refined sugar
• Eat protein with every meal
• Swap refined sugar products with wholegrain alternatives
• Eat plenty of fibre rich vegetables
• Include cinnamon - lowers blood sugar levels
• Consult the ORAC (Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity) scale - which identifies the anti-oxidants in foods

Inflammation is behind many degenerative diseases, so here we have some advice from Geraldine on how to reduce it:

• Eat organic
• Turmeric
• Ginger
• Green leafy vegetables
• Fermented foods
• Acid/Alkaline balancing
• Omega 3 fatty acids 

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