Fitness and Nutrition
4 Changes to Help Prevent Diabetes, Heart Diseases and Dementia
Two key words that you have to know with regards to heart disease and diabetes prevention is “Metabolic Syndrome”. Luckily the life style changes that you have to make to prevent metabolic syndrome also help maintain the health of your brain and reduce your risk of dementia...
In order to avoid Metabolic Syndrome and help prevent diabetes, heart disease and dementia a person needs to re-structure four major components of how they live their lives, including ...
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Seniors do not need a lecture on the need for physical exercise. We all know that physical exercise helps you enhance or maintain your physical fitness and overall health and wellness. We have been there and we know what happens to the body as you age.
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Many elderly people suffer from insufficient dietary amounts of vitamin D and calcium. The Institute of Medicine recommends 800 IU/d or more of vitamin D for elderly people. In the United States, the recommended intake for adults over the age of 50 is 1200 mg/d, however the average intake for men over the age of 50 is 722 mg/d of vitamin D, and the average intake for women over the age of 50 is 578 mg/d of vitamin D.
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If you watch any program on nutrition today, one message that you will not fail to get is that fiber in your diet is good for you. In fact, findings from the National Institutes of Health's AARP Diet and Health Study, published in 2011 in the Archives of Internal Medicine showed that Men were 24 to 56 percent and women 34 to 59 percent less likely to die of heart and infectious or respiratory diseases if they had fiber in their diet.
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Exercise is vital to the human body. If a person does not exercise, the difficulty of performing daily activities arises sooner in the person’s lifetime. Control over the human body and visual skill are the first traits to decrease when a person does not exercise. As a person becomes older, sustaining the energy needed for daily activities becomes harder because the human body lacks muscle strength.
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The National Institutes of Health estimates that 1 in 3 adults suffers occasional bouts of insomnia, while for 1 in 10, it's a chronic problem. Even for the rest of us, getting a good night sleep can be a problem.
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Growing older can't be avoided, but it does not mean the loss of health, mind and independence. The vast majority of those who live to be 100 are able to live independently on their own well into their 90's, and about 15 percent of them have no age-related diseases even after they hit the century mark, according to the New England Centenarian Study
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