Nutrition In Middle Age: What To Look Out For

Okay folks I am back and so are you after a nice long weekend. Isn't it always great to have a little break from time to time, especially in the winter months? As age catches up with a few of us, it's interesting how we start to complain about all kinds of aches and pains. Seemingly, winter just makes it worse. The question is: Is it just in our minds, are we the ultimate hypochondriacs, or are our bodies really feeling the effects of additional Sundays?.

We all know that as kids, we were constantly forced to dress up warmly and we never seemed to feel cold.
But now? Hmm, tell me about it! We fight overweight and obesity, heart problems, rheumatism, sugar diabetes and plain old age. As a young active child our bodies mimic a little furnace that is constantly burning food and converting it to heat. Simply put, our metabolisms were so much more efficient. We could eat a whole cow, a sack of millet and tonnes of morogo, plus loads of fruits, then burn it off like there is no tomorrow and not even put on an ounce of fat.

 
That was great stuff and the good olden days. It makes me nostalgic just reflecting on it. Now, as the baby boom and generation X, we all have to deal with the effects of a sluggish metabolism that results in all the side effects we hate to suffer. The fact of the matter is that a diet rich in refined foods like polished white maize, rice, bread, and sugar and lack of exercise can make you old before your time.

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