Whereas some of them are looking for eternal youth recipe, others appeal to easier and more effective techniques: looking after diet, sports, sleeping enough hours and avoiding excessive stress. Ultimately, there is nothing more helpful to feel young than a healthy lifestyle.

Genetic factors condition how we are getting older, but they are not the only ones. Lifestyle influence in DNA and it could help us to reach our end: live more and better.

Chronological age does not always coincide with biological age. What is the difference between them? The first one indicates the time that has elapsed since birth and never stops. The second one determines the wear and tear that the organism has suffered throughout life and depends on the healthy or harmful habits we acquire, such as those related to food.

It is important to eat healthy, but not forget to pamper the palate. Health and pleasure are not at odds, on the contrary. Dr. Julián Bayón Plaza advises to enjoy food and respect the basis of healthy aging: sensory stimulation + adequate nutritional contribution + experience and imagination in the kitchen. The key is to use products of proximity and of season elaborated according to the customs of each region.

In the book “Recipes antiaging” (editorial Salsa Books), Dr. Manuel Sánchez Director of the Antiaging service of the Clinic Planas and the chefs Carme Ruscalleda and Raúl Ballam offer the secret of anti-aging gastronomy with medical advice and offer basic guidelines to develop our anti-aging diet throughout the year. Here are some of them:

• Eating four or five pieces of fruit, salad or vegetables a day.
• Use raw and seasonal products accompanied by garlic, onion, red pepper, avocados, olives or almonds. "A multicolored dish is a guarantee of health".
• Vegetable proteins: stew, fermented soybeans, olive oil… All of these foods are rich in antioxidants. The vegetable protein should prevail over the animal protein.
• Three servings of fatty fish per week. It is rich in Omega 3.
• Carbohydrates, only the necessary. The ones that proceed from sweets and industrial confectionery should be reduced at maximum. Anyways, it is preferably to eat at lunch, not in dinner.
• Extra virgin olive oil. It reduces cardiovascular risk, improves the intestinal passage of the foods and combats diseases such as diabetes or hypertension. It also provides antioxidants.
• Low mineralized bottled water (not tap water). The appropriate quantity is two liters per day.
• Two glasses of wine a day have beneficial effects on the bone and immune system and act as cellular protectors.
• Nuts, hazelnuts or almonds provide vegetable protein, vitamins and fiber.