Do You Want to Look and Feel Younger?

Whether to avoid wrinkles, protect your ticker, or keep your mind sharp, proper eating is the only real fountain of youth.

Sunflower seeds. These tiny wonders have the highest natural vitamin E contecnt of any food around, and no antioxidant is better at fighting off the aging effects of free radicals.

Spinach and beans. Researchers studied the diets of 400 elderly men and women, and found that those who ate the most leafy green vegetables and beans had the fewest wrinkles. The reason? Spinach and beans are full of compounds that help prevent and repair wear and tear on your skin cells as you get older.

Sweet potatoes. Overexposure to the sun is one of the primary reasons we age prematurely. But European researchers recently found that pigments from beta carotene-rich foods like sweet potatoes and carrots can build up in your skin, helping to prevent damange from ultraviolet rays.

Coffee. One of nature's most potent elixirs, coffee has been shown in numerous studies to slow the aging process, fight of Alzheimer's disease and enhance short-term memory.