Why We Get Chronic Diseases
Posted on December 17, 2008 - Filed Under Prevention, healthy lifestyle | 3 Comments
Remember:
“Chronic diseases don’t just happen; they are almost entirely the result of decades of unhealthy living.”1
Steven G. Aldana, The Culprit and the Cure: Why Lifestyle is the Culprit Behind America’s Poor Health and How Transforming That Lifestyle Can be the Cure (Mapleton, UT: Maple Mountain Press, 2005), 4. [↩]
For the Sports Fan in Your Life
Posted on December 4, 2008 - Filed Under Prevention, healthy lifestyle | 4 Comments
I’m a big sports fan. I find myself watching a little ESPN every now and again… ok, probably a little (or a lot of you ask my wife) every day. I also listen to sports radio when I’m out and about in my car as I try to follow what’s going on in the sports […]
Type 2 Diabetes and Exercise
Posted on December 3, 2008 - Filed Under Exercise, Prevention | 3 Comments
Just in case you don’t believe me about exercise being good for you:
“Cross -sectional, retrospective, prospective, and interventional epidemiologic research, including studies of enforced inactivity, provide strong evidence that regular exercise reduces type 2 diabetes risk in adolescents and adults.”1
Reducing your risk of type 2 diabetes is just one of the benefits of regular exercise. […]
Chew on This
Posted on November 19, 2008 - Filed Under Prevention, healthy lifestyle | 4 Comments
Here’s something to think about from the introduction in Walter Willett’s book Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy: The Harvard Medical School Guide to Healthy Eating:
“By making the right choices, you will help yourself avoid some of the things we think of as the inevitable penalties of getting older. A healthy diet teamed with regular exercise and […]
Exercise is Medicine
Posted on October 29, 2008 - Filed Under Exercise, Prevention | 7 Comments
Yesterday I read a post called Exercise is Good Medicine from Carole Carson’s blog. She talks about the “Exercise is Medicine” campaign which calls on doctors to “assess and review every patient’s physical activity program at every visit.”
I hadn’t heard about the Exercise is Medicine movement but I was excited to learn about it. It […]
How to Prevent High Blood Pressure
Posted on October 7, 2008 - Filed Under Blood Pressure, Prevention | 5 Comments
According to the American Heart Association, about 1 in 3 Americans has high blood pressure. Because there are no symptoms for high blood pressure, they also estimate that 1/3 of these people don’t know they have it.
The only way to know if you have high blood pressure is to have it checked.
Research shows that […]
Why I Blog About Health
Posted on September 16, 2008 - Filed Under Behavior Change, Prevention | 6 Comments
In 2005, there were 2,448,017 deaths in the United States. Of those deaths, 652,091 (27%) were from heart disease, 559,312 (23%) from cancer, 143,579 (6%) from stroke (cerebrovascular diseases), and 75,119 (3%) from diabetes (according to CDC Statistics).
I would be stupid to say that ALL of these deaths were preventable through healthy lifestyle habits. […]
Protect Yourself from Heart Disease
Posted on August 21, 2008 - Filed Under Prevention | 1 Comment
You can prevent heart disease and other chronic diseases in your life by living a healthier lifestyle. There’s no question about that. You can’t make yourself immune, but you can definitely reduce your risk.
Some risk factors for heart disease can’t be controlled. Those include age, sex, and family history. But just […]
Quote of the Day
Posted on August 8, 2008 - Filed Under Prevention | 3 Comments
This is a great quote from Steven G. Aldana’s The Culprit and The Cure: Why Lifestyle is the Culprit Behind America’s Poor Health and How Transforming That Lifestyle can be the Cure:
Remember, just because you feel great now doesn’t mean chronic diseases can’t ever find you. Do your part to prevent chronic disease in your […]
Fruit, Veggies, and Exercise are Good!
Posted on July 29, 2008 - Filed Under Exercise, Fruit, Prevention, Vegetables | 2 Comments
There’s more good news about eating more fruits/vegetables and exercising regularly: it will reduce your risk for developing type 2 diabetes. That is according to different studies published in the journal Archives of Internal Medicine (read details of the studies here).
This shouldn’t come as a shock to anyone. We know fruits and vegetables […]
