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Back in the eighties, people were singing the lyrics to Alphaville’s Forever Young. The song lyrics describe enjoying life for as long as you can, and making sure that you make the best of your experiences. Little did these young people – boomers for the most part – realize that this could be their life theme even today. They now moan and groan about turning a year older again and looking as bad off as their hand-made moccasins back then. Age is a part of life, it’s inevitable, and you just have to learn to embrace it instead of fighting it. When you accomplish that, you’ll realize how feeling old is just a state of mind.

How you feel deep down inside is one of the major factors that interfere with your health and apparent youth. If you want to beat aging, you have be synchronised with your body’s needs. Body, mind, and spirit must be in harmony with your desires. When your spiritual, mental, and physical states match up with what you want, you can usually achieve those goals effortlessly. The secret to aging better and more naturally is to feel good about yourself, and just treat the symptoms that come naturally when you grow older. You don’t have to just live with these aches and pains and old looks and feel bad about them. You just need to accept what you’ve got and feel good about yourself. Avoid making an obsession out of aging, and you’ll be amazed at just how much pressure you’ve taken off your mind. You should feel like you are the same person as 20 or 30 years ago.

What matters is not your physical appearance, but who you really are in your heart and soul. This sounds like a cliché, but this became a cliché with good reason. Inside, you still have many of the same dreams and interests as you did those 20 or 30 years ago. In fact, aging has its rewards; the years of experience should have taught you how to be more confident and happier with yourself. You may worry about the fine lines and deep crevices you see in the mirror’s reflection, but has this helped at all? No, it only gave you ulcers!

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Here are a few things to remember each time you feel that you are aging:

1. Feeling beautiful is not about your age. In fact, it’s almost 100% attitude. You are a unique person, and there is much about you to love.
2. Learn to show your emotions. The trick is to let it our and get over it; blowing off steam is healthy.
3. Do not get bamboozled by the media’s perception of beauty. If you read through all the fashion publications and websites, you’ll soon realize that, in their eyes, no woman is good enough, much less perfect.
4. Find love with and via your friends, your partners, and your family. Share your good times with them and meet new people. Don’t surround yourself with people who don’t like you of who have a poor opinion of you; they are deadly to your welfare.
5. Don’t get caught in the rut that says, “I’m too old” to do something. Enjoy the rock concerts like you used to, and go to your friends’ parties. Don’t let other people’s opinions (or your own fear of looking silly) impact your mind-set. Let them knit sweaters and socks while you cut a rug.

Life is an adventure. Live it! Take your courage in your hands and enjoy whatever comes. The real secret is to carry on with your life and enjoy yourself. This is how you can feel forever young, and look the part as well.

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Hello again!

Do anti-aging products really work? Well, look at the success of the big beauty industry companies, and you would have to decide a definite “yes” – at least it works for them! Crèmes and potions for anti-aging are available almost everywhere. Many of them have been available in one form or another for many years. More recently, there has been even more growth in the number of products and the number of product lines as well. Although some anti-aging products can show verifiable success, none of them is capable of completely eradicating all the symptoms. If you are in the market for an anti-aging product, do your research as well as you can before spending valuable money on what otherwise might turn out to be a dud.

There are probably thousands of individual products you can choose among, and to find the “right one”, you may have to spend quite a bit of time and effort. To simplify your search and make your selection (or selections) less bewildering, make a short list of what your basic needs are and the information you have first:

• What your skin type is
• How much you are willing to spend
• Feedback from your dermatologist
• Feedback from your friends and acquaintences
• Information gained from your research to answer the question, “do these anti-aging products really work?”

There are various products that are clinically proven to aid in the reduction of the usual indications of aging. The majority of these products have ceramides and peptides coming from rice as their active ingredients. The ceramides add moisture to the cells to fatten them up and remove wrinkles, and the peptides shield the skin against the damage coming from your environment. “Neutrogena Healthy Skin Rejuvenator Kit” is one product that has received the recommendation of many dermatologists. The cream-type product in the kit also contains retinol. The product functions by adding moisture to reduce the number of visible wrinkles and lines, and covers and reduces the visibility of age-spots. Since the kit includes moisturisers, it also softens your face’s skin. Do these anti-aging products really work? Apparently yes.

Another well-known and widely accepted product is “Olay Professional Pro-X Wrinkle Smoothing Cream”. Outside the USA, the name may be somewhat different, “Olaz” in place of “Olay” is one change that comes to mind, but there may be other variations as well (language and copyright/trademark restrictions are to blame). This product is designed to return the appearance of youth to your face. Many people utilise laser treatments, chemical peeling, or even cosmetic surgery to achieve permanent or semi-permanent results. “Olay Professional” claims to achieve the same results without medical treatment. Its amino-peptide active contents assist specifically in the regeneration of sun-damaged skin. This should help you return to your youthful appearance without major medical assistance. Does this anti-aging product really work? Apparently, according to experts’ reports, yes.

BTW: You need to pay attention to the solar protection factor (SPF) for products you will utilise outdoors. Although the solar UV radiation that gets to ground level is not quite as bad now as it was a few years ago, it is still important to choose products that have a relatively strong SPF, that is, above 10 or 12. Aging makes your skin more sensitive to solar radiation, and you need to consider this at virtually every turn.

So, here’s what you need to do: do your research with friends and acquaintances, your dermatologist, and magazines and Internet and read the labels! Why read the labels? You really need to be certain of what you’re going to put on your face – remember, it’s YOUR face we’re talking about here, and you only have one! To assist the products with your improvements, make sure that you eat the right foods, and stay away from cigarette- and cigar-smoke-filled rooms and the equivalent – these places are deadly for exactly that skin you are trying to protect! Vitamin and mineral supplements are also a great idea (but see our website Vitamins for more information). And of course, make sure you eat the right foods to keep body and soul whole and healthy. Remember, the way you feel is reflected in the way you look.

Absorb all the new information you can find, and start looking for the anti-aging crème that fits your needs. Make sure that you read the list of ingredients for every product you are considering, because there are many products that use contents that can be dangerous for you. Make sure as well that you take a good diet to help your chosen products function. Eat foods that are packed with vitamins and take lots of mineral supplements. Think about the total picture: a nice face won’t help you if you can’t back it up with the physical condition to match. No matter what anti-aging supplements you take, none of them can counteract a bad diet or reduce the effects of any other bad habits you might have (for example, smoking, alcohol excess, obesity). Think about all your activities and habits; be sure to consider everything concerning your overall health. You can do a better job of minimising the effects of aging if you enjoy your life and do the healthy things you can do for as long as you can. Do anti-aging products really work? Yes, apparently they do, but getting a little help from you will help them look even more successful.

Please note: Sue & Craig Websites, its owners and the author(s) of this article are neither doctors nor medical practitioners. The information above is volunteered in the public interest solely as entertainment, and is not designed to take the place of a consultation with your appropriate medical source. In case of a conflict between any statement above and your doctor’s advice, always take your doctor’s advice, but remember, it is your prerogative to obtain medical advice from more than one qualified source.

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Hi there!

Everybody goes through troublesome situations. Almost everyone has been subject to misery and pain. With all that, how is it possible to move on to our next phase and enjoy the golden years that are still there for us? We have put all that bad stuff behind us but it’s still present in our minds. As the saying goes, “only two things are certain in this life, death and taxes.” Usually, the person then goes on to speak about taxes, but as we get older, we have to look the prospect of death in the eye. How are we going to do that? With strength and self-assurance? Or are we going to cower before death and give him a victory even while we are still alive? Old age is your choice! I know what I want to do, and I think that you have the same desire, whether you can achieve it or not.

What do you feel like right now? Is your body relaxed and younger-feeling than it really is? Have you come to grips with your real age? If that’s a problem for you, then you need to get a new way of thinking. If you can modify your attitude about your age, you can make astounding changes in your life. Your whole body will respond with a more positive outlook on life, your personality will reflect the potential joy that surrounds you, and even your looks will improve – those troublesome lines and wrinkles will not necessarily disappear, but they will become less noticeable, and many will turn into laugh lines. Just think, life – your life – is just sitting there, waiting for you to enjoy it to the fullest. It’s up to you to pick the cherries while you can. Old age is your choice.

How to do that? How do you “pick the cherries?” Well, it starts every morning. When you wake up, and make sure that you are thinking positive thoughts, that those nasty dark thoughts are banned from your head. Think about how you have been blessed: you are free to breathe good air, live in a comfortable house with people you love and who love you, enjoy your day. Old age is your choice, count your blessings; you’re bound to have many. And don’t stop where you are, go after all the new blessings you can find as well – new flowers and plants in the garden and along the street, new friends and acquaintances, even new TV programs (hmm, well maybe not). The important thing is to get and maintain a positive point of view on your entire existence. It’s your responsibility to take care of your own positive thoughts.

There is nothing that says you cannot stay active as your age increases. Daily routines are a pain, and they will drag you down with them into their boring daily cycles, but only if you let them. Vary your required activities, do them at a different time, go here and there via different routes and explore new areas, energise your mind and pump up your imagination with new experiences. Take life by the throat and love it! Old age really is your own choice: take control of your life and live it to the hilt, or grow old before your time, stewing in your own juices. You say you’ve made mistakes in the past? Who has not? But you can’t change those errors now; the thing to do is to face them down, accept that you made a mistake, but learn from it and life goes on! You have to let the old wounds heal themselves and go away. If you don’t do that, you will be covered by old wounds and look like the loser you have decided to be. Did you get the drift there? “The loser YOU have decided to be.” Don’t. Old age – your choice. Think positively and show it.

“Old age” comes in two varieties: the physical aging of the body, and the mental aging that can accelerate the physical aging if you let it. If you become old mentally, you’re done for. Your mind will convince your body that it cannot do even the normal things that it still is capable of doing, and you will kill yourself before your time. The correct, positive outlook will support your body and allow it to create joy and pleasure for you. You cannot stop physical aging, but you certainly can prevent yourself from becoming “prematurely old”. Think about it, you’ve probably seen and maybe even known some people who, at 40 or 45 years, were already older than most people at 75. Except in rare cases, that’s not physical, that’s mental aging. You don’t have to succumb to that. Enjoy your life, right up to, and even beyond, the limits that you set for yourself. That’s how to achieve the best you can do. “I don’t want to get old?” Old age is your choice!

Please note: Sue & Craig Websites, its owners and the author(s) of this article are not doctors or medical practitioners. The information above is volunteered in the public interest solely as entertainment, and is not designed to take the place of a consultation with your appropriate medical source. In case of a conflict between any statement above and your doctor’s advice, always take your doctor’s advice, but remember, it is your prerogative to obtain medical advice from more than one qualified source.

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Old Age – Your Choice?