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Ta b l e Of C o n t ent s Introduction ……………………………………………………………….page 4 Chapter 1: Now Is The Time To Take Charge ............................ 5 Chapter 2: Can You Avoid Aging? ......................................................... 10 Chapter 3: The Baby Boomer’s Diet .................................................... 15 Chapter 4: The Baby Boomer’s Exercise Regimen .................. 21 Chapter 5: Supplementing And Hormones .....................................31 Chapter 6: The Baby Boomer’s Brain................................................... 39 Chapter 7: The Baby Boomer And Money ........................................ 43 Chapter 8: Lifestyle Changes For The Baby Boomer ................48 The Baby Boomer’s To Do List ........................................................53 Conclusion ................................................................................. 54
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Int r odu c t i o n Are you a baby boomer? If you were born in the years between 1946 and 1964 then technically you are considered a baby boomer. But, even if you fall out of this range, this e-book is a tool that you must take into consideration today. Those that are approaching late middle age and into their golden years need to begin thinking about their futures. While it would be wonderful to be able to just stop the clock, that’s not possible. What is possible is finding the things that can help you to improve your well being, your health and ultimately to lead you to a long, healthy and prosperous life. If you haven’t given any thought to your future, now is the time to do so. There are countless things that need to be thought about, but, we’ve brought it all in here, ready to give you the tools you need to really make a difference. Read this e-book. Take the time to make these changes in your life today. And, set a course for a long life that is full of the riches that the world can offer to you. Best of all, look forward to many years of bliss.
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N o w Is T h e Ti m e Char g e
To Tak e
Time is fleeting. It just doesn’t last as long as we would like it to last. Although it may seem like just yesterday you were raising your children, those years have passed and now they are raising their own children. But, before you let any more time slip pass, start thinking of your future. Although you may not be able to go back and adjust time, implementing the changes in your diet, your exercise, your mental health and in your financial health will allow you to find the necessary tools to excelling in your later years. If one thing is for sure it is that you can make a difference in the quality of the rest of your days if you take charge now, without wasting any more time. Why Didn’t You Do It Before? Although you may be kicking yourself for not saving enough money or for not dropping those extra 40 pounds when you were younger, hold fast in the thought that you can still make progress by making changes today. In many ways, you’ll be able to find the health and wellness that you could have had. If you are younger, there are many changes that you can make today that will greatly impact your life later. In fact, if you simply make a few of these changes today, you’ll be able to far exceed your goals in 5
earning a savings account that can pay for retirement, in fending off heart disease and even keeping Alzheimer’s at bay. Every day that you implement positive change, is one more day that you have the ability to gain benefits. The sooner you start the more benefit you can obtain. Why Should You Make Changes Anyway? One of the largest in importance and probably the most difficult things to change is your mind. Why can’t I just live the way that I want to today? Why can’t I just eat the foods that taste good and live the life that I am living? What’s going to happen if I do this for one more day, month or year? You may not realize it, but each of these things can and will lead you to a premature death. Living one more day eating foods that are unhealthy will lead to the increased risk of heart disease. Living one more day with not getting enough sleep, not relieving stress and not getting the exercise you need, leads to disease and an immune system that can’t keep up with you. Living one more day, takes off more time at the end. what you want?
Is that really
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There is good news, though. Most of the damage that you’ve done to your body can be reverse if you have done so in time and are dedicated to making that happen. With just a few minutes of care to your lifestyle each day, you can get back the time you may have possibly lost. Don’t think that it has to be forever, because if you can change your mind, you can get it back. What’s To Change? You don’t have to live a life that’s super “clean” and yes, you can make mistakes, eat that fatty hamburger and still watch realty television if it makes you happy. But, the goal that should be realized is that these things should be done in moderation. There are many things that you should take into consideration as being things to change. Here are a few of the most important considerations that you may have to make changes in. 1. Your Diet:
Giving your body the nutrients it needs is vitally important to living as long as possible. Not only do you need to put good things in, but you need to get the bad things out. Giving your body the tools it needs to make this happen is important to living longer.
2. Your Brain.
Stimulation to the brain needs to be on going. With the population’s number of Alzheimer’s cases expected to drastically increase with the Baby Boomer generation, it is virtually important that you provide the tools necessary to curb this if possible. 7
3. Your Finances.
It is expected that in the next five years, more than 50 percent of those that enter retirement will not be able to support themselves but will rely on family, Social Security as well as charity. Is your financial future set for retirement?
4. Your Physical Fitness. It is critical that your body be physically
fit. That means that the 2/3rds of the population in the United States that is overweight or obese needs to take heed. Heading into your later years with this type of physical problem will definitely shorten your life span. 5. Your Lifestyle. Getting social interaction, being happy, and
less stressed are all key ingredients to a healthy and happy lifestyle. If you don’t incorporate these types of interactions into your life, you loose mental alertness and your quality of life is just not what is should be. Each of these five things can be changed in simple ways and in large ways to help you to prepare for the later years of your life. In fact, no matter where you are in your life, developing your own future is something you have the ability to change. That doesn’t last forever, though. Giving yourself an opportunity to excel is something you must do and you need to begin making the changes now. The good news is that we’ve broken it all down for you into a simple guide that will transform your life for the future.
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In the next chapters of this e-book, we’ll talk about these five elements and give you step by step methods to changing your life to improve the future. Take the time to fully read through these pages, but then go back and begin implementing them into your life today, when it counts. If you wait, you waste your future. Now, let’s start building a quality life.
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2: Ca n Y o u Av o i d A g i n g ? The Tr u t h Y o u M u s t Kn ow
Walk into any department store and you’ll find hundreds of beauty products lining the shelves. Each one of those products has something else, something unique to offer. Most promise to hide the signs of aging. Some make claims of being able to erase the years and to have you looking 10, 20 or more years younger. But, in truth, there is no way to avoid aging, is there? Consider some numbers for a moment. In the late 1800’s and early 1900’s, the average life expectancy in the United States was that of just 42 years of age! Today, that number has nearly doubled its size and that’s no short feet to accomplish. The fact is that people are living longer because of the benefits of modern medicine and the benefits that technology offer. In fact, today, there are over 70,000 people in the United States alone that are at the age of 100 or more! That is an outstanding number. As you watch your parents age, you are probably thinking to yourself the things that you would have done different, so that you don’t walk down their same path. Perhaps you would like to be more active so that arthritis doesn’t set in so soon. Or, perhaps you would be tested sooner than they were for 10
cancers, heart disease and countless other conditions. The good news is that you do have the ability to see these things going wrong and therefore you should be able to reach out and lengthen your lifespan. One way we like to think that we can do this is by looking younger. That’s why all of those products are on the market. If it was a multi billion dollar business, there wouldn’t be so many products trying to take part of that chunk of change. But, what type of anti aging product can you possibly invest in that’s going to improve the quality of your life? What if we told you that it really had nothing to do with those products on the market, but that it had to do with the things that you are capable of making changes with today, right now? That’s what this e-book is all about. But, before you get to those good tidbits, it’s important for you to understand that you don’t just want to look younger. You need to dig deeper into your lifestyle and feel younger. With modern medicine and modern science, we have a much better understanding of how the things around use effect us. We know that cancer can be caused by toxins entering into your body when you breathe and we know that some forms of heart disease happen because of the foods we eat. But, we also know how virtually everything else on planet earth effects us too. By taking that knowledge and using it to look for ways to improve our aging faculties, you are able to truly transform your life to a point that 11
goes beyond that of what any of those anti aging wrinkle creams can do. Research Has Guided Us Research by skilled doctors has guided us to these answers. For example, some researched are so dedicated to anti aging that they’ve developed a protocol that will lead you through the process. For example, take a look at these signs of aging. By the time that you are 35 years old, the amount of hormone that your body makes has sharply declined. The stress you are under, the foods that you eat and the city’s air quality has lead to little particles getting into your body (these are called free radicals, by the way!) They get into your cells and can be the beginnings of cancer. Even though you feel good, the process has already started. Or, by the next stage, by the time that you are 45, even more destruction has happened to the body, especially the individual cells in your body. Hormones have further dropped and now, your body is starting to show signs of aging. Your skin, your hair, and even your energy levels are showing signs of aging. At this point, if you are still getting high levels of free radicals entering your body, it is at the point of leading to the development of cancer, if it hasn’t already. Still, it gets a bit worse when you move past this age. Now, things are completely working against you. Lower hormones, again, and your skin is drier. It has thinned considerably because your body has 12
stopped making enough collagen to support it. Your joints are chiming in now with the first aches and pains of arthritis. Your engery levels have fallen considerably. If you fall victim to heart conditions, diabetes, or hypertension, your organs have started to fail you. Of course, heart disease is likely to be the type of disease to kill you. Yes, it does sound grim. But, because researchers do have this wealth of an understanding about your body, they can now help you to make changes that will improve your health and help you to gain freedom from much of this. What is important is to address the body not as a whole but as individual cells, by which it is composed. By taking into consideration the vast number of cells and their needs, you can provide the appropriate attention to the conditions that face them, improve your health and wellness and eventually help yourself to live a longer, healthier life. While you may want to consider dieting and exercise as the best ways to stay healthy, even this is not the right path to follow. What you should be doing, then, is creating a plan that specifically treats your body in the hopes of working as an anti aging tool. The next chapters are dedicated to the fundamentals of this plan. By doing these things they will help you, the Baby Boomer, to live longer and healthier. Remember, being developed by researchers that have one goal in mind, anti aging, helps you to know that these things are 13