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7 things that can help make you look younger than your age

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As we get older, it’s natural for our skin and bodies to change in ways that can make us look older than our actual age. However, there are habits and practices you can adopt to help slow down visible signs of aging and maintain a more youthful appearance. Here are 7 things that can help make you look younger:

1. Get Enough Sleep
Not getting sufficient quality sleep can take a major toll on your appearance over time. Lack of sleep leads to premature wrinkles, under-eye bags and dark circles, dull skin, and an overall tired look. Aim for 7-9 hours per night to allow your body to rejuvenate skin cells and produce collagen that keeps skin looking plump and smooth.

2. Stay Hydrated
Drinking plenty of water is essential for keeping skin firm, supple, and radiant rather than dry, flaky, and wrinkled. Mild dehydration can quickly zap skin of moisture, volume and luminosity while exaggerating the look of fine lines and wrinkles. Sip water throughout the day and limit diuretics like coffee.

3. Protect Your Skin from the Sun
One of the top contributors to visible signs of aging is unprotected exposure to UV radiation from the sun. Harmful UV rays penetrate deep into skin, breaking down collagen and elastin while creating free radicals that damage skin cells over time. This leads to premature wrinkles, age spots, sagging skin, and rough texture.

Prevent this by applying a broad spectrum sunscreen of SPF 30 or higher every day, seeking shade, and wearing protective clothing and accessories. Also avoid tanning beds, which expose you to concentrated UV radiation.

4. Eat Foods Rich in Antioxidants
The visible effects of aging are often due to oxidative stress and inflammation caused by unstable molecules called free radicals. Antioxidants help neutralize these free radicals and reduce oxidative damage that ages skin prematurely.

Load up on fruits and vegetables like berries, leafy greens, tomatoes, avocados, nuts, and green tea which are packed with antioxidants like vitamins A, C, and E along with beneficial plant compounds.

5. Exercise Regularly
In addition to keeping your body strong, fit and healthy, regular exercise promotes better circulation that delivers nutrients to skin cells and boosts collagen production to keep skin tight and firm. It also releases endorphins that give skin a youthful post-workout glow.

Aim for 30-60 minutes of exercise like walking, swimming, cycling or strength training most days of the week. Your complexion will look more radiant and you’ll avoid sagging facial muscles that can make you look older.

6. Manage Stress Levels
High levels of stress cause the body to produce excess cortisol which breaks down collagen and elastin in skin over time. This leads to accelerated wrinkles, sagging skin, adult acne, dull complexion and other visible effects of premature aging.

Engage in stress-relieving activities like meditation, yoga, deep breathing exercises, journaling, or whatever helps calm your mind and lower stress hormones. Your skin will stay more resilient and youthful-looking as a result.

7. Consider Anti-Aging Treatments
While lifestyle habits support maintaining a youthful look from the inside-out, certain anti-aging treatments and procedures can help enhance and optimize your results on the outside as well.

Professional treatments like chemical peels, laser treatments, microneedling and certain cosmetic injections can reduce wrinkles, tighten skin and restore plumpness and volume in a more dramatic way than over-the-counter skincare products. Just be sure to get treatments from a qualified provider.

In addition to these 7 practices, other habits and behaviors that can help take years off your face and body include:

• Exfoliating regularly to remove dead, dull surface skin cells
• Using SPF in your daily skincare regimen to shield against UV rays
• Getting enough vitamin C to boost collagen production
• Avoiding excessive sugar and processed foods that age you prematurely
• Using retinol or retinoids to stimulate cell renewal and prevent wrinkles
• Staying out of pollution and smog that damages and dries out skin
• Quitting smoking to avoid premature wrinkles and dull complexion
• Maintaining good posture to prevent sagging facial muscles READ FULL STORY HERE>>>CLICK HERE TO CONTINUE READING>>>

With the proper lifestyle and anti-aging treatments, it’s definitely possible to look years younger than your chronological age. Here’s a deeper look into how each of the top 7 practices can help:

1. Sleep is critical for skin’s repair and regeneration processes, including building new collagen to keep skin firm. Getting quality sleep also reduces inflammation that leads to wrinkles and acne.

2. Proper hydration improves skin’s elasticity, plumpness, and radiant glow while flushing out toxins that can dull skin’s appearance. Even mild dehydration shows up as more pronounced lines and sagging skin tone.

3. UV exposure causes most of the visible signs we associate with aging by creating free radicals that break down proteins like collagen and elastin while mutating skin cells. Diligent sun protection preserves skin’s youthful qualities.

4. Antioxidants like vitamins A, C, and E help neutralize those harmful free radicals from UV exposure or other sources while supporting skin’s collagen production for a smoother, more supple look and feel.

5. Aerobic exercise increases blood flow to deliver nutrients to skin cells while also optimizing skin’s elasticity and tone. Weight training builds muscle to provide structure and volume that helps offset sagging skin.

6. Stress hormones like cortisol accelerate the breakdown of collagen and trigger inflammation that leads to premature fine lines, wrinkles, and dull skin. Managing stress keeps those in check.

7. Options like mild chemical peels, FDA-approved laser treatments and injection procedures can effectively resurface skin, stimulate collagen production and add volume in areas with wrinkles or lax skin texture.

With the right approach, it’s absolutely realistic to look 5, 10 or even 15 years younger than your biological age through lifestyle habits and professional anti-aging tactics that optimize skin’s youthful qualities.

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However, it’s important to have reasonable expectations about aging and avoid falling for “anti-aging miracles” marketed in gimmicky ways. While these practices can help preserve and enhance a more youthful appearance, aging is ultimately inevitable.

The most sustainable approach is to embrace lifestyle changes that support longevity and healthy, gradual aging rather than chasing unnatural and fleeting ideas about avoiding the aging process entirely. Focus on aging gracefully through low-stress living, smart skincare, and making daily choices that nourish your body from the inside out.

With consistency and commitment to these practices, you’re sure to turn heads by looking vibrant, refreshed and years younger than peers who aren’t prioritizing healthy aging strategies. Invest in yourself and your long-term self by maintaining habits that keep you looking and feeling your best at every age!

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I Just Met This Guy, He Took Me To a Hotel When We Got There, What He Did Left Me Outraged

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I walked into an eatery one afternoon to order takeout. While I waited for my food I kept busy with my phone. A man walked up to me with determination on his face. He smiled and said “Hello my name is Victor. I have been trying to get your attention from my table over there (he points to a far-off table). READ FULL STORY HERE>>>CLICK HERE TO CONTINUE READING>>>

You didn’t even blink in my direction.” I looked at him and said “Sorry I’ve been engrossed with my phone.” He said “I can see that. I suppose that’s how to get your attention, through your phone. Can you give me your number then?” I didn’t mind giving…Read Full Story Here……..

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1999 Toronto Saga: How Former Speaker, Salisu Buhari, Declared False Age and Forged University Certificate

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On the 3rd of June, 1999, Salisu Buhari, a 29-year-old Nigerian businessman who made his fortune dealing in computers, was elected as the speaker of the House of Representatives in Nigeria, a position which constitutionally made him the fourth most important person in Nigeria.

Unknowing to his colleagues, the government and the whole of Nigeria, Salisu Buhari was not qualified for the office he occupied. Few weeks after he was elected, findings revealed that Salisu Buhari, the sixth Speaker of the House of Rep. forged his way to power…Click Here To Continue Reading>> …Click Here To Continue Reading>>

 

The News Magazine released an article on the 19th of July, 1999 claiming that Salisu Buhari is seven years younger than the 36 years he claimed to be and that he didn’t attend the University of Toronto in Canada not to talk of graduating from the institution. The News Magazine had more than enough proofs to back their claims thus suppressing all threats made by Salisu Buhari and his lawyers to sue them for libel.

Salisu Buhari
Salisu Buhari

It was made known to the world that Salisu Buhari, the self-acclaimed Toronto University graduate, was actually born in 1970 and not in 1963 which he claimed. This rendered him unqualified to be the Speaker as section 65 subsection 1 of the 1999 constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria disqualified anybody under 30 years from contesting membership of the House of Representatives.

Also, it was made known that Salisu Buhari didn’t attend the University of Toronto in Canada not to talk of graduating with a degree in Business Administration in 1990. The University of Toronto, when asked, denied knowing Salisu Buhari. The management said they couldn’t find any record relating to the his name. Carlo Villanueva, an official of the Institution said,

Regarding your request for confirmation of degree for Mr. Ibrahim Salisu Buhari. We have searched our records and could not find anybody with the name you are inquiring with”.

Letter from University of Toronto
Letter from University of Toronto

Also, Salisu claimed that he did his national youth service at Standard Construction in Kano. This was proven false as records at the NYSC secretariat in Abuja could not produce his name among the 1991 corps members who served in the scheme. READ FULL STORY HERE>>>CLICK HERE TO CONTINUE READING>>>

Blocked in every way, he had no means of escape. After several open denial of the allegations and threats to sue The News Magazine, Salisu Buhari, on Thursday, July 23, 1999, eventually faced Nigerians and admitted declaring false age and forging certificate. In tears, he said,

“I apologize to you. I apologize to the nation. I apologize to my family and friends for all the distress I have caused them. I was misled in error by the zeal to serve the nation, I hope the nation will forgive me and give me the opportunity to serve again.”

He then resigned and walked into the shadows. In 2013, he made his return to the news and the public space when he was appointed as a member of the governing council of the University of Nigeria by President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration.

Normally, the move garnered a lot of criticism. In a feeble attempt to justify the appointment, the Nigerian government explained that Buhari’s apology had earned him a presidential pardon from President Olusegun Obasanjo.

 

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The Man Called Adegoke Adelabu ‘Penkelemesi’

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Joseph Gbadamosi Adegoke Adelabu alias Adelabu Penkelemesi was a colossal in the political arena of Ibadan and the then Western Region before the independence of Nigeria in 1960.

He was born in Oke-Oluokun, Ibadan, on September 3, 1915 to Mr. Sanusi Ashiyanbi Adelabu and Mrs. Awujola Adelabu. At the tender age of five, Adegoke Adelabu lost his mother and then lived with his paternal aunt. Adegoke Adelabu attended St. David’s C.M.S School in Kudeti, Ibadan from 1925 to 1929; CMS Central School, Mapo, Ibadan in 1930 and Government College, where he was a head boy, from 1931 to 1936…Click Here To Continue Reading>> …Click Here To Continue Reading>>

 

In 1936, Adegoke won a U.A.C scholarship to study commerce in Yaba Higher College but eventually left the college six months later to work as an assistant to the UAC Ibadan district manager. After working with UAC for sometime, he was promoted to an Assistant Manager due to his hard and clever work. However, he left UAC in 1937 to start a business of his own which was unsuccessful. He later took up a civil service job, then returned to UAC in 1945 only to leave after a short period to start a textile trading business which was successful.

After acquiring little wealth from his textile business, Adegoke Adelabu got involved in politics. The starting point of his political career was traced to the period when Ibadan lineage chiefs (Mogajis) rose against Salami Agbaje, the then Otun Balogun of Ibadan, from becoming the Olubadan of Ibadan. In 1951, during the local elections, Adelabu and some other political elements formed a new party called the Ibadan People’s Party to challenge the already established Ibadan Progressive Union and fortunately for Adelabu, the new party won all six seats to the Western Regional Assembly. READ FULL STORY HERE>>>CLICK HERE TO CONTINUE READING>>>

However, the Ibadan People’s Party broke apart after an informal alliance with NCNC was proposed by Adelabu. Adegoke Adelabu stayed with NCNC and became the secretary of the party’s Western Province Working Committee. In 1954, Adelabu became the chairman of Ibadan District Council. Also, in the Federal elections of 1954, Adegoke Adelabu won a seat to the House of Representatives and later became the First National Vice President of NCNC and appointed Minister of Social Services. He held this post along with his chairmanship of the Ibadan district council.

He later resigned from both positions after allegations of corruption by the opposition party, Action Group.
In 1956, Adelabu ran for a seat in the regional assembly as the leader of NCNC in the Western Region but his party lost majority seats to Action Group thus making Adelabu the leader of opposition in the Western House of Assembly.
Adegoke Adelabu alias Adelabu Penkelemesi was a strong politician, leader and had his ground, a firm ground, in Ibadan. He was found of using the phrase “Peculiar mess” whenever he address the public. The non-literate segment of his followers who had never heard of the words peculiar and mess and never knew its meaning Yorubanized the phrase into “Penkelemesi” and then added it to his name- Adegoke Adelabu Penkelemesi. The people so much loved Adelabu. He was indeed a ‘man of the people’. OldNaija gathered that when he became the Minister of Labour, he was given an official limousine car which he drove to Ibadan to show his friends and followers and declared that the car belonged to them, not him. Also, when Adelabu was given an official residence in Ikoyi, the most exquisite part of Lagos inhabited mostly by the British and French, he called drummers from his hometown to celebrate the success which the British and French residents found disturbing. Adegoke Adelabu simply said, “If they do not like noise and drumming, they are free to go back to their own country.” Adegoke Adelabu admitted being an egoist in a book he wrote in 1952 titled ‘Africa In Ebullition: Being a handbook of freedom for Nigerian nationalists’.

Adegoke Adelabu and Obafemi Awolowo
Adegoke Adelabu and Obafemi Awolowo

On March 25, 1958, at the age of 43, Adegoke Adelabu met his untimely death in a fatal car accident on the Lagos-Ibadan expressway. His death sparked protest and chaos in Ibadan as many of his supporters claimed he was assassinated by his opponents with juju. Several properties were destroyed and people also lost their lives. The police arrested over 500 persons of whom 102 was charged with murder and others discharged and some, jailed. It was indeed a big loss, a “peculiar miss” for the people of Ibadan.

 

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