Midlife Euphoria Day 4

Midlife Euphoria Day 4.

Half truth: Middle-aged adults often show visible signs of aging such as decrease of flexibility and  physical fitness, with a 5–10 kg (10-20 lb) accumulation of body fat,  along with loss of skin elasticity and graying of the hair.
Reality: It is obvious as you grow older there would be changes, not only physical but physiological and psychological in nature too. Life is not static.  No big fuss is made when we see the flexibility of our limbs and the pallor of our skin changing in the early years from childhood to teens. Children can contort themselves into the most difficult yogic poses while the same gets more and more difficult as you grow. The baby soft skin starts to lose its silky-smoothness much before midlife.
You will never see babies over eat even if you place the choicest cuisines in front of them. As we grow we develop a penchant for exotic food, that is marketed so ingeniously now a days to astray us from the balanced track of healthful intake. Long term effects of this unhealthful lifestyle come into sight during midlife.
On the other hand there are people who show evidence of superb bodies as late as seventies and eighties. If you follow an apt regime and discipline your life style there is no reason why you will show rigidity and extra flab in other than normal developing changes. Let us face it, how many of us follow a routine until administered strictly by a doctor. By then a lot of damage has already been set off and we can just about implement damage control.
The baby soft skin starts to lose its silky-smoothness much before midlife. To a large extend we are responsible for some of these changes. The loss of skin elasticity is also the result of subjecting it to harsh chemicals, exposing it to the ultra violet rays of the sun, the effect of dust and pollution in the atmosphere. The long term effect of these will definitely show up and the longer the exposure more ruthless will be the consequences.  To blame only midlife to this would be unreasonable.
Graying of hair is also a universal phenomenon. However, in recent years a lot of people in their thirties and as early as their late twenties, have reported the onset of grey hair. This information has been furnished by interacting with the beauty parlours that are mushrooming in every nook and corner, every where in the world. The graying of the hair is attributed to stress, pollution, diet changes and the use of chemicals. However with modern beauty products not only can you reverse this, you are able to choose an alluring hue for your crowning glory that may enhances your looks and personality.
Let us not make midlife a scapegoat for personal negligence!!!