Age More Gracefully: 11 Foods For Midlife Women

I get it. When you're 50 and over, and a woman you have to "age more gracefully" while men just age at 50+ "And the risk of age-related disease increases with each passing year" Nonsense. I'm 53 years old and am as healthy as a horse. 11 Foods for Midlife Women? Where's the 11 Foods for Midlife Men? "Famed actress and octogenarian Bette Davis said getting older isn't for sissies. " Oh for goodness sakes! Getting older isn't a catastrophy. You're not automatically going to have a rough time of it when you get older and when it comes to women, aging is made into such a song and dance production number. I'm 53 and female. I have no aches and pains, no wrinkles, I'm not insecure about my few gray hairs, I've been smoking since I was 30 without a single bit of cancer, and without a car I can walk any long distance and I'm hardly heaving. I'm not huge at all, and if I shrink a little with age, I'm small already so I won't know the difference.

i take them all except tumeric alot i take in supplement form lutein is great for the eyes..you can get lycopene from watermelon too..i will be 54 and most think late 30's i also think good genes and working out with weights helps too

You must be pretty thin since you don't eat or try to eat but once a day. I had read in Ayurvedic philosophy, we really don't need to eat much or even eat every day...and you live longer when you restrict calories...so you're on that path, but the smoking and drinking -- OY --not good, but hey, you have good genes. I love your bio "Don't breed or buy while homeless animals die." To me, with that bio, you're a good person...so I'm Fanning you. Good luck with your program.

All good stuff, all of which I try to eat more of with two exceptions I used to drink a lot of tea and eat a lot of spinach, which grows exceptionally well on a sandy patch of my garden, giant croker sacks full every day, but I've cut way down on oxalates.

I have always wondered why articles that list foods for certain "health benefits" never list the ?!health risks!? of those same foods? For example, spinach and cranberries can be bad for some people who have had a history of certain kinds of kidney stones. And turmeric is a blood thinner and could affect someone with certain health issues or who are already taking blood thinner medications. A friend of mine gave me a very helpful book, "The Tao of Nutrition" by Maoshing Ni and Cathy McNease (Seven Star Communications, publisher?!). It has helped me rearrange my eating habits and saved me endless dietary issues that I believe the always well intending physicians of today may have treated as a more severe health issues. I also believe that doctors are essential in ultimate health diagnosis, but some physical symptoms can also be studied by the individual, with careful diet analysis, to better understand their own unique reactions to foods. Remember readers, this is only what I believe from what I have studied and learned for myself. I am not writing a health commandment or trying to set any FDA guidelines, this is just a "comment!"

Oh please......you DO see what I was driving at. Drown me in technicalities and salad dressing.

Lighten up -- the article is about looking younger.It is a foolish vanity, at best.

I smoke, I drink, I hate vegetables and I am not too fond of fruits. I try to eat at least once a day, but since I don't really like food in general, I don't always succeed. And yet, I got carded in most convenience and grocery stores until around age 54. So I firmly believe that it's genes that determine how we age, not food. Instead of thanking some seeds or green leaves, I thank my mother.

The article is really addressing how to improve one's quality of life which generally portends better circumstances financially, socially, and psychologically - benefits that are not soley restricted to the individual but also for our society, at large.