Artists Alex and Li Yongxian ate and drank in Macau recently. Their age index soared and they looked like 60-year-olds. (Photo/Luo Huiwen) Pan Shibin, honorary chairman of Taiwan Province Anti-aging Society, said that the average life expectancy of people in Taiwan Province Province is getting longer and longer, but the aging speed is getting faster and faster, and the age groups of various chronic diseases are getting younger and younger, which is attributed to stress, smoking, lack of exercise, greasy diet, preference for high glycated proteins and refined foods, leading to high blood sugar, hyperlipidemia, high uric acid and high cancer risk.
What is age?
AGE is the end product of saccharification formed by the combination of sugar and protein. When the human body ingests too much polysaccharide from the diet, or when the blood of the body is in a state of high sugar content, the AGE concentration in the body will be high. If it exceeds the metabolic level of the body for a long time, it will cause inflammatory reaction like excessive free radicals in the body, and in severe cases, it will lead to organ diseases, such as cataract, retinopathy, hypertension, stroke, heart disease, diabetes, peripheral nerve injury, cancer and so on.
The glomerulus of human kidney has the ability to metabolize AGEs, but modern people prefer meat, high sugar, high fat, high starch and refined food, thus producing a large number of AGEs. If the body has no time to metabolize it, it will accelerate aging and organ diseases.
How to reduce age?
Pan Huaizong, a health expert, said that in order to have a healthy body, in addition to avoiding bad living habits and unbalanced diet, it is recommended to eat 579 kinds of fruits and vegetables every day, because fruits and vegetables are not easy to age during cooking, and are rich in vitamin B and various nutrients, which can achieve the effect of preventing aging.
Eating barbecue and dry fried meat often will increase the AGE concentration in the body, promote inflammation and accelerate aging. (Photography/Huang Zhiwen) Cooking methods can also affect the generation of age. Pan Huaizong said that if meat is cooked by "dry heating" methods such as high-temperature roasting and dry frying, the age generation can reach 10 to 100 times. It is suggested that the cooking method should be low temperature or boiled to reduce the generation of AGE.
However, the right diet is only part of anti-aging. Dr. Pan Shibin said that people should still pay attention to regular exercise, emotional coordination, anti-free radicals, hormones, genetics and other health axes.