【Abstract】The magic power of food against the ravages of time is far more troublesome and effective than those costly cosmetics and health products in bottles. Here are nine recommended foods for anti-aging. Besides delighting your taste buds, they can also bring you a slim figure, a youthful heart, extraordinary immunity, and a pleasant mood, truly making you an ageless woman.
【Explanation】Fresh Cheese
Care Keyword: Saving Memory
Even though you're not old yet, but easily forgetful? If you worry about your declining memory, try eating some fresh cheese. The linoleic acid rich in fresh cheese is a "panacea" to improve memory. Its trace element zinc helps regulate the synthesis of neurotransmitters, thereby improving brain function. Because cheese has high calcium content, it is also one of the best foods for calcium supplementation and strong bones.
Eating Tips
In order to fully utilize your memory and thinking ability, besides cheese, you can also add some brain-boosting foods to your diet, such as eggs, milk, whole wheat bread, peanut butter, green peppers, cauliflower, pork liver, oysters, etc. In addition, wine contains abundant antioxidants which help stimulate nerve cells. A small glass of wine every day brings many benefits.
Tuna
Care Keyword: Fighting Fat
Worried about gaining weight but don't want to diet? Then you need to choose the right foods, like tuna. Tuna is a low-sugar, low-fat, low-calorie food, but it is rich in high-quality protein and other nutrients, very beneficial for women's weight loss, with a great texture. Moreover, researchers have revealed that tuna is rich in iron, which is especially advantageous for young women who lack iron.
Eating Tips
Tuna is known as the best source of protein. Eating 85 grams of tuna provides 20 grams of protein without worrying too much about gaining weight. This is undoubtedly more conducive to successful weight loss compared to getting essential proteins from other meats.
Honey
Care Keyword: Purifying Blood
For women, choosing bread with honey for breakfast is undoubtedly wise. However, it’s better to use dark-colored honey rather than light-colored ones. According to an American study, dark honey is the best guardian of human cells because it contains abundant antioxidants that protect cells. These substances are highly beneficial for purifying blood and preventing cardiovascular diseases.
Eating Tips
If you like outdoor running exercises in winter, you should eat more honey. Honey is rich in carbohydrates, helping exercisers effectively maintain their blood sugar levels. Undoubtedly, eating a spoonful of honey before and during exercise can rival the effects of chocolate.
Oranges
Care Keyword: Enhancing Immunity
Among all fruits, oranges contain the highest amount of Vitamin C, approximately 30% more than ordinary fruits. If you want to stay away from colds, flu, and other illnesses this winter, the simplest and most effective way is to eat more oranges. They are renowned for enhancing the immune system and resisting diseases, with effects comparable to cold medicine. Additionally, their role in skin care cannot be overlooked.
Eating Tips
One orange can provide the human body with 75 milligrams of Vitamin C. If you ensure eating 1-2 oranges daily, that will sufficiently meet your daily Vitamin C needs without having to consider obtaining it from other foods.
Broccoli
Care Keyword: Youthful Heart
Broccoli contains a plant dye called flavonols, which strengthen the body and have cancer-preventing properties. Research conducted by the University of Minnesota on 34,000 women proved that the flavonols in broccoli well protect the heart and reduce the incidence of myocardial infarction by 15%~20%, a boon for postmenopausal women prone to myocardial infarction. However, other bioflavonoids, such as those found in tea or apples, do not have these specific disease-prevention effects.
Eating Tips
Besides broccoli, the unsaturated fatty acids rich in walnut kernels can also effectively prevent myocardial blockage. You should ideally eat 12 per day. Furthermore, women who consume 200 grams of fruits and vegetables daily (equivalent to two apples and one portion of vegetables) can reduce their risk of myocardial infarction by about 60%.
Peanut Butter
Care Keyword: Eternal Youth
Peanut butter may not be everyone's favorite, but due to its richness in Vitamin E, its powerful antioxidant properties cannot be ignored. Regular consumption can help women resist the ravages of time.
Moreover, peanut butter is known as the best energy food. Two hours before a sports competition, if athletes eat a piece of bread coated with two teaspoons of peanut butter, the "good" monounsaturated fatty acids it contains can help them sustain a feeling of fullness and slowly release carbohydrates, maintaining good physical strength and condition.
Eating Tips
The benefits of peanut butter are not limited to this. Recent medical studies show that consuming peanut butter along with other nuts (such as walnuts, hazelnuts) can greatly reduce the risk of women developing type 2 diabetes.
Coffee
Care Keyword: Food Aphrodisiac
If you're troubled by a decreasing sexual interest, try coffee's aphrodisiac effect. Of course, coffee's role in improving attention, relieving stress, preventing senile dementia and Parkinson's disease, cannot be ignored. In addition, it can increase the efficiency of painkillers by 40%. Everyone's reaction to caffeine varies, so each person should find their own maximum limit of coffee consumption. Generally speaking, three cups a day is appropriate.
Eating Tips
Coffee can cause calcium loss in the body, but drinking coffee with added milk or creamer can effectively prevent calcium loss. Coffee is also beneficial to the skin, so after drinking a cup of coffee, drink 1-2 cups of water.
Chocolate
Care Keyword: Escaping Emotional Lows
During the long winter, if you always feel depressed? Have a piece of chocolate, and your gloomy mood will improve significantly. Chocolate has a miraculous effect in dispelling depressive moods: the carbohydrates and fats contained in chocolate release happiness hormones and endorphins in the brain, making people feel happy. Moreover, chocolate contains a substance called phenethylamine, whose antidepressant effects have already been proven by scientists.
Eating Tips
Western countries are currently popularizing a new dietary control therapy: chocolate-controlled diet therapy. As long as you stick to it for two weeks, both weight and blood pressure will decrease. But the prerequisite is: the cocoa content in chocolate must reach at least 70%.
American Almonds
Care Keyword: Maintaining Shape
In the past, people often equated the fat content of food with weight gain, but American almonds perfectly refute this misconception. Studies show that adding a handful of American almonds to your daily diet does not lead to weight gain; on the contrary, it can help women lose weight.
This is because, first, eating American almonds and other nuts produces a significant sense of fullness. Eating a small handful before meals can reduce the intake of other high-calorie foods; secondly, the dietary fiber in almonds can lower fat absorption rates. Eating almonds does not result in ingesting as many calories as indicated on the nutritional label, so it does not lead to weight gain.
In addition, some studies have shown that women who eat American almonds more than five times a week have the lowest Body Mass Index (BMI) among all adults.
Eating Tips:
American almonds are indeed a satisfying and convenient snack. A handful of almonds (about 23 kernels), approximately 28 grams, contains 160 calories, while being rich in flavonoid antioxidants, vitamin E, and magnesium. Women can enjoy it as a healthy snack, especially suitable for eating before meals.