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Other healthy fats include olive oil, and flaxseed. Eat moderate amounts of calcium foods such as milk, yogurt, and cheese for healthy teeth and bones. These foods fight against osteoporosis, a disease, which can result in the thinning of your bones.

Stay away from sugar as much as possible. Avoid manufactured white breads, cakes, cereal, alcohol, cookies and candy. Watch out for fruit juices, they are very sugary. Eat the fruit instead. Sugar is sticky. When there is extra sugar floating around in your blood stream, its sticky glucose molecules latch onto proteins. This process changes the structure of proteins preventing them from doing their job in the body.

Stay away from partially hydrogenated fats; these man-made products are terrible for your lipid profile, which is an indicator of health. These trans fats cause increased cholesterol. Use moderate amounts of butter, good fats instead of margarine, trans fats.

Along with drinking plenty of fresh clean water and doing moderate exercise, the foods you eat can fight aging successfully. Over one third of the people over 65 are aging badly because of poor food choices. You can live longer, be healthier, and happier when you get older by consuming a high anti-oxidant, nutrient rich, well-balanced diet.

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