ryladmin, Author at Reclaim Your Longevity

Active People Reflect Healthy Lives

July 16, 2015 By ryladmin Leave a Comment

Think your muscles are just for looks?

Admittedly, those with finely tuned ones do get their “lion’s share” of attention but strong muscles are healthy muscles and represent much more than “just looks.” They represent life itself and are the key to preventing many age related diseases as well as supporting active lifestyles into later years.

Becoming weak and feeble as one ages is not a result of aging itself but a result of inactivity. Slow controlled loading of your muscles along with adequate resistance can rapidly rebuild your strength and youthful vitality. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Exercise, Reduce Disease Risk Tagged With: fountain of youth, muscle mass and health, resistance training, strength training is key to fountain of youth

Chronic Disease Kills

July 7, 2015 By ryladmin Leave a Comment

At one time, infectious disease took first place when it came to deaths (it is still a threat), but modern day lifestyles have given rise to chronic diseases that have now become the leading cause of deaths and disability in the US and Europe.

Even in places where infectious diseases are still rampant, chronic disease is a major cause of pre-mature death and can be considered a modern day holocaust accounting for 70% of all deaths. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Reduce Disease Risk Tagged With: chronic disease, the rise of chronic disease

Awesome Avocados

June 23, 2015 By ryladmin Leave a Comment

Looking for a nutrient dense food that is high in fiber and provides you a smorgasbord of important nutrients like folate, vitamin E, vitamin B6, vitamin B5, vitamins C and K, magnesium, potassium, lutein, folate, carotenoids, iron and chlorophyll among others?

Avocados are your answer.

This flavorful buttery smooth to the palate fruit provides some surprising but powerful health benefits and is considered a “super-food.” [Read more…]

Filed Under: diet Tagged With: avocados, butter substitute, super-food avocado

Meditate for a Mind-Body Connection

June 12, 2015 By ryladmin Leave a Comment

Meditation has been used for centuries as a method for calming and clearing the mind and relaxing the body.

It is a known technique that works and has been used for stress reduction by the medical profession by both doctors and hospitals world-wide…but can it actually help you to lose weight?

Meditation is a tool…a very powerful tool that allows you to release your thoughts and in so doing, transcend into a peaceful state of being. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Healthy Mind, Reduce Disease Risk

Healthy No-bake Raw Desserts…Yummy Apple Balls

June 5, 2015 By ryladmin Leave a Comment

Eating fresh raw foods is finally becoming a mainstream diet. As more and more people wake up to the fact that their bodies, minds and habits are all part of the same scene that is out-picturing in their lives and that in order to display perfect health and vitality each one needs to be balanced and healthy.

Switching to eating fresh raw foods during our regular meals such as breakfast, lunch or dinner is a challenge but is there a way to eat fresh when we’re in the mood for a sweet snack or when enjoying dessert?

Must we always feel guilt after participating in these sense enhancing activities? Is it really that bad to enjoy something “sweet?” [Read more…]

Filed Under: diet Tagged With: raw desserts, raw food snacks, raw foods, raw whole foods

The Controls to Aging are on the Inside Not the Outside

May 29, 2015 By ryladmin Leave a Comment

Aging is a natural part of the human experience, it is a natural part of the process of life…however getting “old” is something that is within our control.

Getting prematurely old…accelerated aging is avoidable if we are addressing what our bodies need now.

What kind of quality of life do you have when you are older but unable to participate with life anymore? You have no energy or stamina so even normal functions of daily living become difficult. You can no longer climb a flight of stairs by yourself and even rise from a chair without a struggle. Forget about the extracurricular activities like dancing and biking and even taking a nice long walk. At this point, the fun is gone and if you can’t enjoy life anymore and have fun then what’s the purpose of being here? [Read more…]

Filed Under: Exercise, Healthy Mind, Reduce Disease Risk Tagged With: fountain of youth, getting old, premature aging

Healthy Mind…Healthy Body

May 19, 2015 By ryladmin Leave a Comment

Thanks to modern science, what used to be considered “science fiction” when it came to looking beautiful has now become aesthetically available to nearly anyone who wants it.

Potions, lotions, wrinkle creams, Botox and even surgery…are all used in the war against aging…some with pretty amazing results. [Read more…]

Filed Under: diet, Exercise, Healthy Mind, Reduce Disease Risk Tagged With: anti-aging, healthy mind

Are “Negative Thoughts” Controlling Your Behavior and Defeating Your Goals?

May 14, 2015 By ryladmin Leave a Comment

Whether you choose to believe it or not….makes no difference…the truth is, “your mind leads the way, no matter what you attempt to achieve in life.

And, no where is this more obvious than your attitudes and beliefs towards your eating and work out habits.

If you set out to make important positive changes in your life, it will be nearly impossible to achieve them if you enter into this process with a mind full of self-defeating negative thoughts. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Healthy Mind Tagged With: control your thoughts, negative conditioning, positive thinking, subconscious programming

6 Habits Sure to Age You

April 28, 2015 By ryladmin Leave a Comment

Enjoying good senior health and longevity means paying attention now…it means making the right choices early on and eliminating any bad habits you are practicing now that could effect and threaten your future physical well-being.

How you look and feel when you are older is dependent on how you treat yourself now. It also has everything to do with whether you are speeding up the aging process or slowing it down.

Let’s look at some habits that will definitely age you: [Read more…]

Filed Under: diet, Exercise, Healthy Mind, Reduce Disease Risk Tagged With: aging habits, habits that age

Exercise and Endorphins are a “Happy Team”

March 31, 2015 By ryladmin Leave a Comment

Working out is no longer just about working out your physical frame and building muscle. Many recent studies are now focused on how exercise boosts brain function regardless of age or level of fitness.

Studies prove that making time for exercise (treating it as a priority) provides some serious mental benefit’s such as an increase and boost in mood and lowered rates of depression. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Anti-aging strategies, diet, Exercise, Healthy Mind, Reduce Disease Risk, Uncategorized Tagged With: endorphins boost mood, exercise and endorphins, feel good hormone