When looking to adopt an anti-aging diet the 3 main rules to follow are:

1. Keep a watch on your total calorie consumption and make sure you don't eat too much saturated fat.

2. Eat plenty of wholegrain products, oily fish, fresh fruits and of course lots of vegetables

3. Reduce your intake of salt and sugar.

As you can see these guidelines are nothing new and are pretty general for adopting an overall healthy balanced diet. However if you want to adopt a more focused anti aging diet you must start to include specific foods that have a greater impact to help your body with the anti-aging process.

Try and include foods with a high ORAC value. ORAC means oxygen radical absorbance capacity. Prunes, blackberries, blueberries, strawberries, kale, spinach, and broccoli are among the highest. These foods have natural vitamins that mop up damaging free radicals. In other words, they help prevent aging!

Other high ORAC fruits and vegetables include:

Anti Aging Fruits - Prunes, Raisins, Blueberries, Blackberries, Cranberries, Strawberries, Pomegranates, Raspberries, Plums, Oranges, Grapes, Red Cherries, Kiwifruit, Grapes, White Cantaloupe, Banana, Apple, Apricots, Peach, Pear.

Anti Aging Vegetables - Kale, Spinach, Brussel Sprouts, Alfalfa Sprouts, Spinach, steamed, Broccoli Florets, Beets, Red Bell Pepper, Onion, Corn Eggplant, Cauliflower, Peas frozen, White Potatoes, Sweet Potatoes, Carrots, String Beans, Tomato, Zucchini, Yellow Squash.

Also make sure to include a variety of nuts in your daily diet such as pecans, walnuts, and pistachios as they all have high anti oxidant properties.

To give your diet an extra ORAC boost use lots of different spices and herbs in your cooking. Ginger, Garlic, Oregano, Turmeric, Sage and Thyme to name just a few have extremely high anti aging properties so are essential for a really effective anti aging diet.

It is also a good idea to become knowledgeable about supplements. A good multi and an antioxidant complex are a must. Anti Aging Gurus such as Leslie Kenton (Age Power - the revolutionary path to natural high tech rejuvenation) for example suggests using such supplements as alpha lipoic acid, co-enzyme Q10, natural fish oils and more. She explains the benefit of each supplement in detail as well as natural sources of the vitamins. Obviously no one wants to rattle when they walk, but you may like to invest in these age fighting super supplements from time to time as an addition to you anti aging diet plan.

The science of anti-aging is no longer a mystery. The information is out there. It is now up to you to use it. We can look younger for longer!