The aging process is for
greater part no mystery anymore. It consists for a great part of daily damages done on macroscopic, tissue, cellular and genetic levels. These add up as years are passing. These damages have specific causes like oxidating agents, sun beams, mechanical wear and tear, psychological stress, lack of some nutritional components and too much of others, like fat. Another component of aging is reduction of telomere chains at chromosome ends, as each cell division occurs. However, body has means to repair these ends again, with an enzyme called telomerase. The rapidity of aging process depends on lack of efficiency in this repair process. The above mention aging causes also slow down this repair process.
The factors causing aging, also causes other diseases like cancer and coronary heart disease. Both aging and these diseases can in great extend be prevented with knowledge possessed today, and damages can in great extend be reversed. The components to achieve this are:
-Adequate dayly food containing whole cereals, peas, beans, vegetables, fruit, fish, mushroms, fouls and seafood, and with just a moderate amount of red meat.
-Just a moderate amount of fat and most of fat supply comming from sources like olive, fish, nuts, sun-flower, etc. Then you will get a good balance between mono-unsaturated fat (olive), poly-unsaturated fat of omaga-3-type (fish) and poly-unsaturated fat of omega-6-type.
