Just a short conversation to continue our focus on some anti-aging strategies we all need to stay youthful while maturing chronologically:

1) the complete list of age defying foods I found at Women’s World as follows: blackberries; walnuts; strawberries; artichoke hearts; cranberries; brewed coffee (yea!); raspberries; pecans; blueberries; ground cloves.  Hint: if you’re using a liquid nutritional supplement, check to see if the base antioxidant ingredients include some or all of the above fruits.  Also, check ORAC (measure of a supplement’s anti-oxidant capability or strength) value.  If possible look further than just the claim on the bottle or website.  There’s boo-coo supplements out there claiming everything from water drunk by 120 year old folk to “highest ORAC value of any antioxidant on the market”.  Don’t get hoodwinked into buying expensive products that don’t live up to their claims (oops, said more than I planned to),

2)  Laugh a lot.  Believe it or not, research shows that laughter provides a powerful defense against the cell-damaging molecules knows as free radicals!  Studies done on folks who watched a TV sitcom increased their ability to zap those molecules by 30%!  Laughter reduces your body’s production of stress hormones according to Dr. Richard Shames.  “As stress hormone levels plummet, our body’s ability to neutralize free radicals goes way up.  (Not giving up CSI and all my “who done it shows” though),

I think that does it for tonight!  I’ll post some more tips and tidbits tomorrow - well sometime tomorrow!  I have four meetings in the city tomorrow beginning at 9:00 a.m., so look for me here at the close of the work day tomorrow!

Have an awesome evening and drink some fruit juice while watching something that makes you laugh!

  Linda