Mind you, though you are 50, your functional age (not the same as your chronologic age!) may be of a 35-year-old man - if you have taken care of yourself, or of... a 60-year-old man - if you have not.

In order to find out if Arterial Cleansing Formula truly enhances the state of your health, you can perform a simple test on yourself before, during and after the nutritional program.

The best among the do-it-yourself functional age measurements is the static balance test:

• How long can you stand on one leg with your eyes closed before falling over?

(As a matter of standardization: left leg if you are right-handed, right leg if left-handed.)

On the average, a fully percent (100 per cent) decline occurs from age 20 to age 80. Most young people can hold a one-legged eyes-closed stand for 30 seconds or more, whereas few old persons can hold the pose longer than a few seconds (Roy L. Walford, M.D., Beyond The 120-Year Diet. New York 2000).

Here are the approximate values (time in seconds before falling over) for different function al ages (in years). In other words, if you can hold a one-legged eyes-closed stand for 16 seconds, your functional age is about 40 years.

• 04 sec. - 70 years
• 05 sec. - 65 years
• 07 sec. - 60 years
• 08 sec. - 55 years
• 09 sec. - 50 years
• 12 sec. - 45 years
• 16 sec. - 40 years

This simple static balance test can show if you are improving the status of your overall health, and, therefore, adding functional, active years to your life.