Anti-ageing Tips.

Scientists believe that as well as a calendar age, you also have a biological or ‘body’ age, which is determined by your health and lifestyle. We all know people who seem younger than their years – and those who seem old before their time. Our diet, activity levels, and even our emotional health all have a direct effect on the ageing process. How long your body and mind stay fit, active and healthy is determined by how you live your life.

If you want to know your true biological (body) age, answer this quiz.

Start with your calendar age, add or subtract years according to your answer.

1. Do you get at least 30 minutes of moderate exercise (like walking) on most days ?
YES – Subtract 1 year.

2. Do you exercise really intensively on a regular basis?
YES – Add 3 years

3. Do you rarely, if ever, do any physical exercise?
YES – Add 2 years.

4. Are you more than 10% over the recommended weight of your height?
YES – Add 3 years

5. Are you the correct weight of your height?
YES – Subtract 1 year.

6. Are you under stress or pressure on a regular basis?
YES – Add 4 years.

7. Do you actively practise stress reducing technique such as meditation or yoga?
YES – Subtract 3 years

8. Have you experienced three or more stressful life events in the past year (for eg; divorce, bereavement, job loss, moving house) ?
YES – Add 3 years.

9. Do you smoke?
YES – Add 6 years.

10. Do you have a cholesterol level of 6.7 or high?
YES – Add 2 years.

11. Do you have blood pressure that’s 135/95 or over?
YES – Add 3 years.

12. Do you eat five or more portion of a range of fresh fruit and vegetables every day?
YES – Subtract 5 years.

13. Do you regularly eat processed, packaged or fast food?
YES – Add 4 years.

14. Are you a vegetarian?
YES – Subtract 2 years.

15. Do you eat oily fish three times a week?
YES – Subtract 2 years.

16. Do you drink two or three small glasses of red wine, up to five days a week?
YES – Subtract 3 years.

17. Do you drink more than 21 units of alcohol a week(if you are a man) or 14(if you’re a woman)
YES – Add 5 years.

18. Do you have an active social life and a supportive network of friends and family?
YES – Subtract 2 years.

19. Do you have an active sex life?
YES – Subtract 2 years.

20. Are you happily married?
YES – Subtract 1.5 years.

See what changes you can make in just one day. What an idea!