How to be Healthy at 80

On Easter Saturday I turned 80 years young.  Many people have commented that I don't look and act like an 80 year old.  In fact my metabolic age is only 46.

So what is my secret?  No real secret I personally think that attitude is a lot to do with it.

However whilst I look good now a few years ago I was diagnosed with Scleraderma, a condition that causes all the tissue around your internal organs to thicken like scar tissue which prevents your organs from operating properly. Or in other words a connective tissue disease.  Part of which is also included CREST sydrome (little red raised spots) on my face hands inside my mouth and ears.

The prognosis was not good.  I googled the condition and did not like what I read and also the photos  that were published were of people of all ages even small children with deformed hands and feet, people in wheel chairs all doubled up, etc. It was rather frightening to read about and view the photos.

My specialist told me the only treatment was steroids, that was not an option for me personally as I don't like the side effects they give, so I opted not to have the treatment. End result would be (I was told by the doctors) I would either be dead in 10 years or in a wheel chair with a feeding tube, quality of life, zilch!!!

I was admitted to  hospital regularly at least 3 times a week and given oxygen to help me breathe, I had IBS and continual chest infections. Life was not the best but I was still alive. I could not kneel on the floor for the pain and could not turn my head to back the car, and one hand was in a brace every night to relieve the pain.  I had continual ulcers in my mouth and under my eyelids through lack of moister and my throat was restricted to the point when eating I could only swallow small amounts with lots of water.   I got by as I always had a good attitude to my condition.  Never dwelling on it and just getting on with life.

11 years ago I started a new business as an  Independent Distributor for Herbalife.  This changed my life forever.  I had no idea that the products were for health I just thought they helped you lose weight and I was in fact committed to helping people to lose weight including myself as I had put on a lot of weight due to my lack of activity.

Taking these products was easy as the weight loss smoothie is pleasant to drink and surprisingly filling. I lost 6ks the first week and went down and dress size.

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Over 90 days I lost a total of 15kgs and I felt great.  It was 5 months later that the specialist said to me :"what are you doing the is different?" I asked why was there something wrong.  His answer surprised me.  "No, but don't you realize you have not been in hospital for 5 months?"  I was amazing I had not noticed it and I also then realized I was feeling so more energized and no longer had as much pain.

Now 11 years later I have kept the weight off, and I have not been in hospital on oxygen since I started and everyone marvels as the way I am able to work and how I look.

If you want the best anti aging products in the world, you should try them out.  They are full nutrition for your body on a daily basis, feeding the cells the nutrients they need.  There are no chemicals in these products and they are helping millions of people all over the world defeat obesity and the affects of bad diets like diabetes and heart disease and all types of conditions related to aging.

Take arthrtis for instance,

this is caused through age and a lack of the cells being fed the right foods, give your cells the right nutrition and it helps to create healthy cells that create more healthy cells, thereby preventing disease or dysfunction of the cells.

Doctor Louis Ignarro (one of our Team of Doctors and a Nobel Prize winne for his work on Heath disease)and his colleague Dr .Andew Myers, have written this book call  Health is Wealth,

This book is well worth reading and outlines all the causes of ill health because of our bad eating habits in the world today.

In the main Herbalife Products have the answer to our obesity problem and also for giving everyone the chance for a healthier and happier life.  This includes children as well as adults, elderly people suffering from cell depletion.  Give your body what it needs and there is no need to suffer from the complaints we have grown to expect with the onset of old age..

If you would like to improve your health or have a diet related health problem, contact me.

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Herbalife does not claim to cure anything we do not diagnose or make claims on cures.  What we do is give your body the nutrition it needs and see what happens.

Well on Easter Saturday the 30th March 2013 I turned 80 years old.  I don't feel that old, but then how are you supposed to feel when you are 80? Questions, questions. 

Really, when you think back over the years, I wondered at one time if I would ever reach 50, let alone 80.  Wow!!! am I supposed to be old, with a walking stick or a walking frame?  Am I supposed to go to pensioner clubs and play cards and listen to everyone's ailments including my own?

I really don't know but what I do know is, I don't feel old, I don't go moaning about bad health, or grey hair, or my arthritis.  I don't have bad health and yes I do have arthritis, but no pain so nothing to moan about there. Yes my hair is going grey in patches, so what! What are artificial colours for?  None of my friends do these things either and whilst they are younger than me, they are all in their 70's.

So what makes my life different to those other people who do look old, who have walking frames, and go to pensioner clubs and sit around contemplating their demise.?  I know my paternal grandparents were really old, or so I thought, they both passed away when I was 6 and 9 years of age and I always thought of them being old.  I found out recently that they were only in their early 60's when they passed on.

For me and my friends, we all have our laptops, and our mobile phones, I have a smart phone and an Ipad, I blog nearly every day, love Facebook, and linkedIn, and other social sites, but best of all I am still working.

I worked full time until I was 69 then I went to part time until I was 72 however, during this part time period in my normal job I was also doing part time as a Herbalife Distributor, helping others to be healthy and live a great life.

I have now been doing this for 11 years. I strongly believe that this is why I am so fit and active, never lonely and always full of energy.  A great company and great products, just good nutrition for your body daily.

16 years ago I was diagnosed with Scleraderma and severe osteo-arthritis, I was in hospital on oxyen up to 3 times a week and was told I would have to take steroids, I refused this treatment, so the Doctors told me that I would probably only have 10years and I would probably be dead or in a wheel chair with a feeding tube, quality of life would be zilch.

I took my chances, then 11 years ago I found Herbalife, not for my health but to lose weight. I lost 6kgs in the first week and went down a dress size, and over 90 days lost 15 kgs and 3 dress sizes.  However it was about 5 months before I realised I had not been in hospital for 5 months.

Today at 80 I am so unbelievably well, I have arthritis without pain, my Scleraderma is still there but just in the back ground.  I have a lot of side effects from the Scleraderma, but I am not in pain, & don't dwell on these problems, just get on with life. I am still monitored by the Specialists who can't believe how well I am.

Enough of the sickness side. My life has had it up's and downs but I have moved on from the downs, and am very positive about my life.  I intend to live to 105.  My Mum lived to 95 without Herbalife I reckon I can live to 105 with it and with all my faculties about me.

Life really has been kind to me, I have 3 lovely children and 6 lovely grand children and 4 lovely great grand children, I am blessed.  I have had 3 husbands and have outlived them all.  I have been on my own now for 10 years this October, Steve my last husband passed away after only 2 1/2 years of marriage.  He was such a lovely man and we were so happy, but it was not to last, the good Lord took him when it was his time.  I miss him terribly.

Well I am going to look forward to the next 10 years and perhaps I will be privileged to see some great great grandchildren.  Who knows, only the good Lord knows when your time is up, in the meantime I am enjoying life living it to the full, and looking forward to the next era in this amazing world.

Thank you for reading the ramblings of an 80 year youngster.

If you need help and want to live a life of good health and happiness, full of fun and lots of energy I can help you.  Lets look at the good side of life together.
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Have a happy life.
Sorry some photos the computer won't let me download.