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The Four Corner Stones for Healthy Aging is a new project by two Australian Authors, Annabel Streets and Susan Saunders who have expanded their popular Age-Well Project blog into a book.

They’ve identified their four cornerstones of healthy aging as diet, exercise, staying engaged and creating the right environment for good sleep. The book focuses on having not only a quantity of life, but taking quality of life into our older years.

Their environmental principles for ageing well are basic but true and along with the four cornerstones, Streets and Saunders fill their book with simple advice and get us to be mindful of the important health-points we’ve likely forgotten or never paid attention to in our younger years.

Their salient points for healthy aging include:

• Pay special attention to your gums and teeth
• Build immunity
• Know the medications linked, by researchers, to Alzheimer’s
• Eat the right foods for your skin, eyes and hair
• Use an anti-pollution serum every day and sunscreen when the sun’s out
• Avoid chemical-laden personal care products – opt for organic where possible
• Forget supplements – except Vitamin D – and zinc for immunity
• Care for your eyes with regular check-ups
• Avoid pollution-heavy areas
• Counter pollution with the right food, the right house plants and an air purifier
• Avoid pesticides and other chemicals when gardening, eating and cleaning