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Health & Fitness

If you want to stay young and healthy despite your age number you should consider this:

Move. One of the top excuses for not working out is just not having enough time. People don’t realize how much fitness they can pack in their day. Instead of sipping on a highly caloric latte for a pick-me-up during a midafternoon break, run up and down the stairs at work.  You’d be surprised at the energy boost, and you will lose some calories.

 Demand more from your workouts. Increase the intensity of your workout by sweating and pushing yourself a little more. Frequency and intensity are two variables that you have within your capability to alter. Don’t think your body can stand one more second on the treadmill? Just remember 93-year-old marathoner Mr. Mendes...

 Think of exercise as eye cream. Just as products can turn back the beauty biological clock, fitness can have the same Benjamin Button-like effect.  If you can consider fitness as an antiaging technique, then maybe you can make it more readily part of your routine.

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 Be zen. One of the factors for figuring out fitness age is having a normal resting heart rate — a regular one ranges from 60 to 100 beats per minute. By meditating, you can do your body some good by lowering stress levels.

 Decrease stress. Take some deep breaths and a bunch of “chill pills“. Cortisol will cause you to hold weight around your waistline, and one of the contributing factors for fitness age is waist circumference.

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 Eat Healthy. To keep itself running smoothly your body requires an array of essential nutrients, ranging from disease-fighting antioxidants to bone-building heavy metals. An inadequate intake of nutrients can cause a reduction in you physiological function, leading to poor health.

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