Know the common signs of premature ageing and how to prevent it

Many of you may not be aware that your body age may be different from your chronological age. As chronological age counts the years of your life, body age or metabolic age indicates your state of health and fitness. According to a health risk assessment done in BPOs, metabolic age is higher than chronological age in 60% of the Filipino workforce. This means their bodies are aging faster than they should be. This is called premature aging, and you could be experiencing it, too.

With premature aging, you may experience several symptoms such as quickly growing tired from daily activities due to muscular exhaustion, experiencing a decline in mobility or slowdown of movement, and having weakness or numbness in the limbs and general back pain. These may be due to a decrease in bone density and muscle mass, which affect how freely you can move. This slowing down can make you less productive in both work and play and lower your quality of life.

With today’s busy work-centered lifestyles, many are immersed in unhealthy habits and stress, which are the main causes of premature aging. Mostly, desk jobs result in the danger of a sedentary lifestyle where muscle mass and general strength is depleted and, possibly, proper blood circulation becomes less efficient. Eating instant food, to save time and money for some, has also contributed to improper nutrition and the lack of many vital vitamins and minerals. The stress brought on by work and life in general may also bring young professionals to unhealthy recreational habits like smoking or excessive drinking. Do all these practices sound familiar to you? If so, premature aging may be quietly slowing you down. When it begins affecting your everyday tasks and your performance at work, it can become a large obstacle in properly providing for your family and your dreams for the future.

Recover the years you lose to premature aging by trying to incorporate a few simple acts that can eventually become healthy habits to live by:

Use your feet.
Keep moving. Movement doesn’t mean complex exercises or gym equipment. Something as simple as walking contributes to your health in a big way. If you are going to a place that’s only a few blocks away, skip the jeep or the trike and put on a good pair of shoes and trudge on to your destination. If you are going up just a few floors, take the stairs. Keep moving to get healthy. Those 10,000 steps a day is a good way to put in the work in trying to stay mobile everyday.

Give yourself ample time to rest.
Rest and sleep helps your body focus on recovery through muscle repair and restoring energy to the body. This body and mind recharge can keep you clear-headed to accomplish your tasks at hand, as well as make you alert, ready, and strong for movement. Insufficient rest can cloud your performance, slow you down at the tasks you need to do, and lower productivity and concentration.

Eat and drink your way to health.
A proper diet plays a large role in lowering body age. According to the Food and Nutrition Research Institute’s 2013 National Nutrition Survey, 50% of Filipino adults ages 19-59 are not getting enough protein, and 93% of Filipino adults are not getting enough calcium. These are vital to a proper diet and it is easy to complete your intake by drinking Anlene daily. With just two glasses of Anlene, you can get the recommended intake of calcium for strong bones, more protein for muscles, and collagen for joints.  To learn more about Anlene, visit www.anlene.com.ph.

With small and easy steps, you can MOVE to lower your body age now to keep enjoying life and living it to the fullest.