I remember seeing a pain medication commercial on TV many years ago. A woman was in the laundry room folding sheets, in considerable pain. Her friend, the laundry spectator, told her about an amazing pain medication she used. Fast forward a few days and drugged-up Mabel was folding sheets pain-free.

Folding Sheets

At the time, I thought [and still think], “Back pain from folding sheets? Seriously?”

Why do so many people approach aging as an inevitable decline into a rocking chair.

“I’m getting older. I guess I need to get used to more aches and pains.”

“Headaches and poor sleep are a fact of life now.”

What if doing nothing more than changing your diet — something within the control of each and every one of us — could slow down, stop, even reverse the aging process? Improving your diet can:

• Reduce joint pain
• Improve the quality of sleep
• Reduce bone loss
• Reduce strength and muscles loss
• Reduce memory loss
• Eliminate fatigue and headaches
• Promote weight loss and leanness
• Improve the look of your skin

Your diet — your daily eating habits [as opposed to a ‘diet’] — affects the aging process and damage being done to your body. Eat poorly: age quicker and increase the chance of chronic degenerative disease. Eat well: age gracefully and reduce your risk of a chronic degenerative condition.

The choice is yours.

Over the next few days, we are going to explore some of the keys to managing the aging process through controlling your diet. By reducing inflammation, oxidation, and advanced glycation end-products [AGEs], you can gain an upper hand on father time and go a long way to ensuring a quality life well into your eighties, nineties, and beyond.

It may even have you folding sheets pain-free for the rest of your years.