Improved health through walking
Everyone knows exercise is good for them, but what many don't realize is that it's a matter of life and death.
Can you believe sitting kills more than 300,000 Americans annually making sitting the third leading cause of death in the US, right after heart disease and cancer. Sitting related deaths however are due to more than one disease, being sedentary is linked to a wide range of debilitating ailments--from diabetes and depression to osteoporosis, certain cancers, and even sexual dysfunction. It affects nearly three out of four adults and a growing number of children and is estimated that it will cost the US $1.5 trillion over the next 10 years.
And it's not just Americans that are affected because sitting around is a worldwide phenomenon, last year, the World Health Organization announced that about 2 million deaths annually worldwide are attributed to sedentary lifestyles and chose physical activity as the theme for World Health Day.
Of the many ways to combat a sedentary lifestyle and reduce the claims we make on our health insurance regular exercise is one of the most important. Probably the easiest form of exercise we can all participate in is walking. A recent study by the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society stated that older people risk problems in the future with walking and mobility if they don't exercise now.
The study also showed that even people in their 70's can improve their mobility if they regularly walk for 1.5 to 2 hours each week.
In another study
the Health, Aging and Body Composition Study (Health ABC Study) followed 3,075 men and women between the age of 70 and 79 years over the course of seven years. Through annual exams and telephone interviews, researchers discovered that mobility was maintained in older persons who exercised and had an active lifestyle.
"Several studies have shown that becoming active at an old age still has positive health effects, showing that it is never too late to start being active," said Marjolein Visser, PhD, lead author of the study.
"Health care providers should be aware of these beneficial effects of physical activity and communicate this to their patients," she says..
Things You Should Avoid During Pregnancy
Pregnancy is a time where you have to be careful with yourself. Many factors affect the development of a fetus into a healthy child. Whether you like it or not there some activities you should avoid for the sake of your healthy baby. There are pregnancy risks that you have to aware of.To help you knowing what they are, here is some checklist you might want to consider:? Don't drink alcohol! You going to jeopardise your baby's development. If you don't want to have low birth weight baby, and having medical problems, better stop drinking once you know that you are pregnant.? Don't smoke! Chemical inhaled while smoking may cause premature birth, miscarriage, bleeding, etc.
Also it reduced the amount of oxygen that baby receives. What ever you are, don't smoke and avoid second hand smoke.? Don't drink coffee. Caffeine in the coffee has been shown to affect fetal heart rates. Caffeine can also increase risk of stretch marks. If you can't stop immediately, try to stop gradually.? Don't...
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The Health effects of being Over Weight
Both men and women around the world are becoming fatter and it's partly because of our modern lifestyle, too much fatty food and too little exercise. Some people say, 'Why should it matter if I'm overweight as long as I feel okay?' But being overweight does matter because it increases the risk of health problems such as heart disease, stroke, diabetes and some cancers. Being at a healthy weight on the other hand, can help lower blood pressure, make you feel better and give you more energy. If you need to lose some weight, here's some good advice from the National Heart Foundation.Change your eating habits graduallyEveryone knows that losing weight partly involves cutting down on foods which contain a lot of fat. But this doesn't mean you have to change your eating habits overnight.
You're more likely to make permanent changes to your diet if you make them gradually. Allow two weeks to stop eating biscuits with tea or coffee, for instance. When you're comfortable with this change,...
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Increase Your Training Intensity - Forced Repetitions
You can only build muscle tissue if you can generate progressively stronger muscular contractions, so this calls for an emphasis on finding ways to increase exercise intensity. This should not be confused with exercise duration as maximum training intensity will actually shorten the time needed to achieve maximal muscular growth.In an earlier article I outlined the ways in which you can intensify your training. Here we'll focus on the role that forced repetitions have to play in intensifying the training effect.When you reach the point of muscular failure it is impossible to manage one more complete repetition of any exercise, at least not without losing form or correct technique. There is, however, one way in which you can increase the intensity even further and that is by completing one or more forced repetitions with the help of an experienced training partner.The best way to achieve this is by keeping the same weights on the bar and have your training partner do no more than is necessary...
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Do I Really Want A Landice Treadmill?
So really ? what's so great about the Landice Treadmill? Well, anyone who's been unfortunate to endure exercising on a bad treadmill will tell you exactly what to look for when chasing down the best treadmills. And anyone who knows anything about this type of fitness equipment will be able to tell you this, too: that the Landice treadmill really is the best treadmill of the bunch.
Running on a bad treadmill can be an annoying and even dangerous affair, but it really is a great way to gain some treadmill perspective, and help you work out just what exactly will be included in the best treadmill for you and your personal fitness needs. A Landice treadmill undoubtedly has a lot to offer any exerciser, from fitness fanatic to absolute beginner, but it is a universal truth that sometimes price considerations can remove some of the best treadmills from your prospective treadmill list. While this is understandable, a short time with one of those cheaper treadmills will have...
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Power Linking 2005 Redefines Website Promotion & Traffic Generation
(ContentDesk) June 7, 2005 -- Web site owners are realizing Jack Humphrey's Power Linking isn't just another typical traffic generating program or another seo software application. Unlike most courses that are written in three days, Power linking is the culmination of three years of the best practices, honest, proven, tested strategies, & hard core results for thousands of customers worldwide. It is pushing the limits of web site owners allotted bandwidth each and every month.Jack Humphrey's Power...
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Estate Planning - Protecting Your Assets from the State
Copyright 2006 Ronald Hudkins
It isn't just the US Government waiting out there to grab a chunk of your hard earned estate when you become incapacitated or die. Strangely enough, state coffers are frequently enlarged through the mechanism of Medicaid. When someone requires long-term care in a nursing home, unless he or she has a private long-term care insurance policy, their whole estate may belong to the state when they pass on.
Nursing home care is not free, even in...
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Where There is Hoodia There Cannot be Obesity
Obesity is related with modern life style which prompts us either to eat excessive food or to eat calorie rich junk food. Such dietary habits provide us excessive energy which is stored in the body in the form of fat. The accumulation of fat takes place beneath the skin primarily in stomach, limbs and chest. Lack of physical work adds fuel to fire; if excessive food intake would have been accompanied with proper physical work daily then obesity were not there. However, doing rigorous physical...
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The Power of Positive Thanking
"Gratitude has a cleansing effect on the soul," according to spiritual leader and author, Marianne Williamson, "healing us from the inside out." The very act of saying "thank you" makes us humbler, gentler and more loving people. "When something good happens and we give thanks for it," she goes on, "then its positive effect expands within us."
What about expressing thanks for gifts we would rather not have received? What a powerful practice a word of appreciation becomes when even...
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Capella University PhD Student Helps Develop Program That Transitions Hispanic Teens Into Nursing Careers
Minneapolis (ContentDesk) October 19, 2005 -- A recently graduated PhD student at Capella University has developed a unique program that assists ethnically diverse and disadvantaged high school students transition into college nursing programs and eventually receive licensure as registered nurses.The program is called Pathways Into Nursing, an initiative of Valencia Community College in Orlando, Florida. Diane Reed, a retention specialist at Valencia and a PhD student in Capella Universitys School...
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