Age-Proofing: Top Five Strategies For Aging

Five strategies for age-proofing include: challenging one’s mind, staying active, eating wisely, maintaining a healthy weight, and not smoking. In attempts of avoiding Alzheimer’s and dementia one who continues to remain mentally active through puzzles, learning a language, or writing can lessen their risk and protect themselves against mental aging factors. The negatives of not maintaining mental active consist of losing sense of situations, and forgetfulness due to not challenging one’s brain. While staying physically active can keep one’s physical well-being intact as exercise can strengthen one’s body through aerobic and intensive exercise and this helps people avoid loss of functionality with aging, then the decision to eat healthy provides
good health through efficient amounts of vitamins, fiber, water, and calorie intake. Then maintaining a healthy weight throughout one’s life will eliminate the diseases more likely to occur due to being overweight since a healthy weight eliminates the factor of putting extraneous effort towards daily tasks of life. These few strategies keep one’s physical well-being in prime condition and away from possible diseases/disabilities caused by bad exercise and diet habits. In addition, avoiding smoking will provide a person more years of average life when compared to a person who smokes since smokers suffer illnesses that last longer and commonly have respiratory disabilities that limit their total ability later on, which makes quality of life suffer.