It is never too early or too late to start planning for your future or to improve your present health. You have the power to control or even prevent many chronic diseases.  

 

*High blood pressure    *High cholesterol         *Hypertension

*Coronary disease        *Type 2 Diabetes         *Osteoporosis

 

We can decrease our risk and even prevent some of these diseases by simply fueling our bodies with the right foods and adding the right exercise program ( be it a light daily walk or something a bit more active). It doesn’t take much, just an understanding that YOU actually have the power to take control of your health.

 

It’s simple. You need to take in less calories than you are using in order to lose weight. 1 pound is equivalent to 3500 calories. If you cut 500 calories a day, you will lose 1 pound a week. If you cut 250 calories a day and add 250 calories burned with exercise you will also lose 1 pound a week. By adding exercises that activates muscle, that muscle will rev up your metabolism (your body now has to work harder to feed that new muscle) and you will burn more calories.....even at rest.

 

I consume over 1500-ml of calcium a day and have made resistance training a must almost every day due to low bone density. Already, I have increased my bone density from what it was two years before.

 

As you get older there is a increase in bone removal and decrease in bone remodeling. You need calcium, vitamin D and resistance training to aid the process of bone remodeling with the goal that bone remolding matches the bone removal.

 

What you feed yourself and the amount of activity you do directly effects your heart. Exercise (in all it’s forms from mild to moderate to intense) builds and strengthens your heart muscle.

 

Many people with arthritis avoid exercise, or even movement due to pain.  Keeping the joint mobile (within reason) and strengthening the muscles that help your joints move has been known to decrease the symptoms of arthritis.

 

Type 2 - Adult onset Diabetes is primarily associated with weight. Eating right, losing weight and adding exercise to your regime will help you control glucose levels and put you on the path to overcoming this disease.