How to Add Anti-Aging Foods to Your Healthy Diet

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Mediterranean olives ripen on the tree

Could the secret of anti-aging be food? While the acai berry seems to get all the press for anti-aging and weight loss many other foods are anti-aging superstars. Many anti-aging foods are part of the Mediterranean diet and taste delicious. Diet is an important part of the anti-aging puzzle. Try adding some or all of these healthy foods to your diet. If you replace highly processed foods with the Mediterranean diet and exercise daily you'll lose weight, feel better and stay young. And you don't have to just eat acai berries.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

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Things You'll Need:

Desire to eat healthier
Desire to live longer
Desire to lose weight.

Step 1

Raspberries ripen on the vine

Berries- Add fresh, frozen or dried acai berries, blueberries, raspberries, or strawberries to cereal, oatmeal, muffins, smoothies, whole grain pancakes or just eat them as a snack. Berries pack a lot of nutrition without a lot of calories. Berries are high in flavonoids, cancer fighting antioxidants, vitamins and fiber.
Step 2

A cup of ginger tea warms the body and the soul

Ginger can boost your digestive system, tastes great in stir fries, soups and breads and can help alleviate aches and pains.In the winter, ginger tea can soothe and warm the body.
Step 3

Avocado- high in healthy mono-unsaturated fat and skin-happy Vitamin E. Avocados taste great in vegetarian sandwiches, burritos, guacamole, or eat half as a snack topped with a squeeze of fresh lemon and sea salt.
Step 4

Add raw broccoli to your daily salad.

Broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, brussel sprouts, kale, radishes.Try sauteing broccoli with olive oil, garlic and crushed red pepper and toss with whole wheat pasta. Lightly steam or saute these cancer fighting vegetables to keep most of the nutritional value intact.
Step 5

Try hot dark chocolate.

Dark Chocolate- Choose good chocolate high in cocoa percentage and low in sugar,just a couple of squares a day will give you heart healthy benefits.
Step 6

Fresh and delicious gazpacho.

Two more reasons to love the Mediterranean diet red wine and tomatoes. For heart healthy flavonoids, keep the red wine consumption to one four ounce. glass a day for women. Two ounces for men. Tomatoes are the lycopene champions, shown to help protect against certain type of cancer, but choose organic whenever possible, studies suggest that organic tomatoes are higher in lycopene. Also combining tomatoes with healthy fats such as olive oil, avocado and nuts makes for better absorption. So add tomato slices to your avocado sandwich. Top your quick tomato sauce with whole grain pasta and toasted nuts.
Step 7

Adding just 1/2 tsp. of cinnamon to your daily diet may lower your LDL cholesterol. New studies on cinnamon suggest it may regulate your blood sugar, has anti-clotting properties, can help with arthritis pain, and smelling it may help with cognitive function and memory. Add it to oatmeal, smoothies or peanut butter.
Step 8

Nuts are another anti-aging heart healthy food. Try walnuts, almonds, cashews, pecans, Brazil nuts and Macadamia nuts. For best nutritional value buy dry-roasted nuts without additional fat or salt and eat only a small handful a day.
Step 9

Garlic adds flavor and health to every recipe.

Garlic is the backbone of the Mediterranean diet. Try to incorporate at least a clove or two a day in your food. Garlic is said to lower blood pressure, help regulate blood sugar and is a strong natural antibiotic. Try hummus with raw vegetables as a snack.