Metabolic Syndrome – What You Can Do In my last post I wrote about the 4 factors in metabolic syndrome In this post I'm going to let you know how you can prevent the syndrome, and you can, because it's all about lifestyle. The dominant underlying risk factors for this syndrome are abdominal obesity and …
Category Archive: Preventing Diseases
Feb
12
4 More Ways To Get Healthy and Stay Healthy
In my last post I wrote about the first 3 steps to take including taking on a regular exercise program but making it social with family and friends. Step number 4 is knowing your numbers. Find out what your ideal body weight is, what your target number should be for the bad cholesterol, LDL, and …
Feb
10
How To Stay Healthy and Active for the Next 12 Months
You do not need a special day like New Years to set your goals for living better. Besides, chances are fairly good that by now, if you did set a health goal for the new year, it has been broken more than once. This is Rule No 1: Set Your Health Goals When You Are …
Feb
05
Take Charge of Your Health Care
No matter what takes place in politics and the politics of public health reform there are actions you can take to insure that you receive quality health care. Keep in mind that quality health care can help you stay healthy and recover faster when you become sick. My mother always thought that getting good care …
Jan
02
Integrating Health Risks for Your Own Health
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. …
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 …
Dec
05
Fitness For Health
Everyone agrees that it is important to be physically fit. However, the answers are many and varied for questions such as: What exactly should we strive for? And how do we get there? Again, like so much of everything in life, the answer is not black or white. …
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 …
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