A health risk factor can be your age, sex, lifestyle, personal health history or family health history. If you have certain risk factors, such as your dad and his brothers and sisters all had diabetes, you probably would be considered at high risk for diabetes. That doesn't mean, however, you are going to develop diabetes. …
Category Archive: Healthy lifestyle
Dec
29
Interpreting Data To Figure Out Your Health Risk
It is evident that we need to understand our health risks and still be aware that the health information we receive keeps changing. When we take responsibility, although you and I have no special expertise, to make intelligent decisions about our health based on the information and misinformation we receive, we need to look beyond …
Nov
27
Osteopenia Diagnosis is a Struggle
Several people asked me to write more about osteopenia. They had a bone density test within the last year and their doctor told them they had osteopenia. They were devastated because they exercise, eat healthfully, and take supplements, the whole 9 yards. Now what they want to know what do they do now! I am …
Nov
22
Good Bone Health at any Age
You cannot feel the disease osteoporosis in your bones. In fact most people have no clue they have the condition until they fall down on the soccer fieldor off a curb and break a leg or an arm.
Nov
07
Bridge Players Challenge Brain Decline In Old Age
Apparently playing bridge and the impact it has on the brain has been studied longer than I thought. For example, researchers are now saying that it is important to keep challenging your brain but not all activities are equal. It seems that people who spend long stretches of their days, three hours or more, engrossed …
Nov
04
Dementia Obstructed by Bridge
There was a recent article in the NY Times about a group of women in their nineties who play bridge daily. The card game is their social network, their mental challenge, and their reason for getting dressed up, Bridge is their way of life.
Sep
23
Daily Aspirin Guidelines Revised
Aspirin happens to be the most used drug worldwide to prevent heart attack and stroke with more than one-third of U.S. adults on daily aspirin doses. The conclusion to the debate about whether or not you should take a daily dose of aspirin and how much and how often is becoming more clear but it …
Sep
23
Less Energy Because of Less Sleep
You hear it all the time from anyone over the age of 35: "I don't have the energy I once did." If you're over 50 you already know that you and your friends don't stay up as late as you once did especially if there's an early golf game the next morning. There are reasons …
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