A Quick Monday Thought
Posted on February 16, 2009 - Filed Under Prevention, healthy lifestyle | 8 Comments
“Thomas Jefferson, more than 200 years ago, stated: ‘The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human body in diet and in the causes and prevention of disease.’ No pill, vaccine, or injection can completely offset the diseases brought on by an unhealthy lifestyle.”1
Just [...]
Live Heart Healthy
Posted on January 19, 2009 - Filed Under Heart Health, Prevention | Leave a Comment
Here’s a quick Monday thought for all of us:
“Heart disease is often avoidable. Following a heart-healthy lifestyle doesn’t have to be complicated. Find ways to include heart-healthy habits into your lifestyle – and you may well enjoy a healthier life for years to come.”
From here. Read to learn more about preventing heart disease in your [...]
You Need Your Heart and It Needs You
Posted on January 15, 2009 - Filed Under Exercise, Heart Health | 2 Comments
Last weekend my wife and I went to the BodyWorlds exhibit in Salt Lake City. It was pretty awesome. The last time I got to see stuff like that was at the cadaver lab at BYU.
Above is a heart opened longitudinally (via BodyWorlds.com). Pretty cool to see the chambers of the heart and everything else. After [...]
Why We Get Chronic Diseases
Posted on December 17, 2008 - Filed Under Prevention, healthy lifestyle | 4 Comments
Remember:
“Chronic diseases don’t just happen; they are almost entirely the result of decades of unhealthy living.”1
ShareSteven 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 | 5 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 | 5 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 | 13 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 | 7 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 and Wellness
Posted on September 16, 2008 - Filed Under Behavior Change, Prevention | 10 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. [...]
