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Eat to Grow Slim
Replace unhealthy foods with health-supporting foods in your diet. This means you need to consume fewer high calorie, dense, dry foods like pastas, bread and cereal.
The Grow Young and Slim Plan is not a quantitative diet, which means you can eat all you want, as often as you want, as long as you choose the proper foods. Even though there are no set guidelines for how much you should eat, we strongly recommend that you avoid overeating because overeating is very hard on the body. The key is to pay attention to your body’s hunger signals and eat numerous, small, high water-content meals as you are hungry. This will burn fat and keep your blood glucose at healthy levels all day.
Choose freely from the following foods:

• • High water, high fiber, low calorie foods
  For rapid fat reduction and high energy, eat as much as possible in this category. They range from about 10 – 70 calories per cup and are rich in fiber and water, which have almost no calories:
  Lettuce, cucumbers, celery, mushrooms, cabbage, bok choy, cauliflower, all types of squash, turnip greens, green beans, mustard greens, bell peppers (green, red, yellow), asparagus, broccoli, spinach, tomatoes, carrots, Brussels sprouts, beets, artichokes, gazpacho soup, veggie soups, sprouts, water chestnuts, radish, endive, eggplant, zucchini, okra, watermelon, gooseberries, tangerine, lime.
• • High water, high fiber, medium calorie foods
  These fruits are also to be eaten in almost unlimited use. They range from about 70 to 101 calories per cup:
  Grapes, peaches, apricots, oranges, pineapple, pears, papaya, honeydew and most other fruit.
• • Medium water, high fiber, medium calorie foods
  These foods should be eaten in moderate amounts per day because they have more food density and calories. It’s best to limit them to four one-cup servings per day. They range from 109 to 137 calories per cup:
  Mangos, Durian (Malaysia) olives (about 6 green or black olives), green peas, potatoes, corn, sprouted seeds, sprouted beans, sprouted grains, wild rice
• • Low water, high fiber, higher calorie foods
  These foods should be eaten in smaller amounts per day. They range from about 191 to 291 calories per cup, so it’s best to limit them to three cups per day in order to stay slim:
  Bananas, beans, lentils, pintos, etc, brown rice, sweet potatoes, avocado, corn tortillas, soy milk, soy cheese, rice milk, rice ice cream

Nick Delgado,

In today’s modern era every one wants to turn back the clock. Living in good health was the main concern and will remain the main goal of many people. Aging is the process of becoming older, a process that is genetically determined and environmentally modulated and Anti-aging refers to the methods and efforts that help to slow down the aging process.

The active ingredients found in anti-aging cosmeceuticals are alpha lipoic acid, dimethylaminoethanol, hyaluronic acid, kinetin, vitamin E, vitamin C, rosemarinic acid etc. Aging skin becomes thinner, rougher, drier and more sensitive, and hence will bruise and burn easily. Also, skin loses its elasticity and this leads to wrinkles, which is the bane of most women’s lives. As skin ages, certain changes occur and these demand that we make changes to our skin care regimen.

Living longer and looking younger is an extremely high priority for many. People do not want to appear old and most of us try to stay as youthful as possible both in appearance and nimbleness. People wanting to stay younger looking, try all kinds of anti-aging systems, from anti wrinkle creams and potions to botox injections and even surgery. Health spas providing rigorous exercise programs, special diets, massages and facials have become regular breaks for some.

Looking and feeling younger can be achieved naturally and you can look and feel much younger by working from the inside out.

Many people write to me with questions about aging. Although I am certainly not a geriatric specialist, I do have some personal thoughts on how we might reduce the effects of aging. I do NOT believe that as we age, we automatically acquire age-related conditions. I believe that we induce them by not caring for ourselves as we should. Sure, some of our physical experiences are inherited, yet there is so much we can do to slow things down.

Today’s market contains many popular treatments for the anti aging process. You can buy a verity of minerals, vitamins, ointments, and lotions in the effort to look and feel younger. Some will provide some benefits and others will just drain your pocketbook. It is important to know and understand the effects of any anti aging therapy prior to starting any treatment.

Everyone has a genetic predisposition at to how they will age. Some people have a genetic predisposition that will cause their hair to turn gray in their early thirties while others will have a genetic predisposition to have a lot of wrinkles by the time they are fifty. Some aging will occur regardless of anti aging therapy and aging is a normal part of life but the trick is to age as gracefully as possible.

Recent scientific research on Bird’s nest found it contained rich amino acids and rich in antioxidant. The two essential elements which help to generate new cell and counter free radicals in our body.

Anti-oxidant

Bird’s nest is rich in antioxidant. Antioxidants are substances or nutrients in which can prevent or slow the oxidative damage to our body. Health problems such as heart diseases, macular degeneration, diabetes, cancer etc are all contributed by oxidative damage. Antioxidants may also immune defense and therefore lower the risk of cancer and infection.

Amino Acids

One of the fastest growing segments of the skin care industry is natural skin care. Many people want to remove synthetic chemicals from their lives in general and this includes what they put on their skin. Manufacturers, for the most part, decide what is called organic or natural. For our purposes these terms refer to ingredients derived from nature, such as plants and the earth; with a minimal amount of processing.

Collagen is very important to healthy skin. In fact Collagen is is a Greek word that means producing glue, which means connective tissue. Collagen helps to control the shapes of cells and that’s why collage wrinkle fillers are so successful.

Break a bone or suffer a wound and Collagen will be there to help regenerate and help you heal more quickly. In fact, 75% of our skin is collagen. As we age the effect of many years of sun exposure, toxins, facial movements, and gravity all begin to show. And because our body is not able to apply enough collagen to the face so we loose our elasticity, which is the ability for the skin to bounce back. That’s why collagen wrinkle fillers are so successful. They replace some of that lost collagen making fine lines and wrinkles appear smaller.

Baby Boomers need not suffer through the aches and pains of life as we age. One of the best supplements is the Acai Berry. Packed full of preventative alternatives for medicine to help you age gracefully.

Acai Berries contain VERY HIGH amounts of essential fatty acids & omegas which have proven to lower LDL (bad cholesterol) & maintain HDL (good cholesterol) levels. Essential amino acid complex along with trace minerals are vital for proper muscle contraction and regeneration. Aside from the energy and fluid replacement, Acai Berries provide a nutrition profile complete with vitamins, minerals, and essential fatty acids (omega 6 and 9). The fatty acid ratio in Acai resembles that of olive oil. Studies suggest this is a contributing factor to the low incidence of heart disease in Mediterranean populations.