By Anna Ordinario
In our Filipino culture, it is accepted, and we are not shocked, when acquaintances come up to us and say outright "you look fat!" or "you look old!" Surely we're used to it, but it may add into the growing popularity of anti-oxidant and anti-aging products around.
Who wouldn't want to look good and younger (than our age)? But wouldn't the more important question be, "do I feel good?" "Do I feel healthy?" "Why do I feel 'older' than my age?"
We usually correlate aging with the appearance of age-related and degenerative diseases such as arthritis, diabetes, heart disease, alzheimers, and many more. Aside from products that try to delay outward appearance of aging, there are a lot of products that promote being able to move more, bike, go ballroom dancing, play with grandkids, etc.
So it's not really about stopping the...
In our Filipino culture, it is accepted, and we are not shocked, when acquaintances come up to us and say outright "you look fat!" or "you look old!" Surely we're used to it, but it may add into the growing popularity of anti-oxidant and anti-aging products around.
Who wouldn't want to look good and younger (than our age)? But wouldn't the more important question be, "do I feel good?" "Do I feel healthy?" "Why do I feel 'older' than my age?"
We usually correlate aging with the appearance of age-related and degenerative diseases such as arthritis, diabetes, heart disease, alzheimers, and many more. Aside from products that try to delay outward appearance of aging, there are a lot of products that promote being able to move more, bike, go ballroom dancing, play with grandkids, etc.
So it's not really about stopping the...