11 Simple Health Habits Worth Adopting Into Your Life
Posted on May 7th, 2022
We get it, it’s hard to break bad habits. But when it comes to building healthy habits, small decisions add up over time.
Exercise physiologist Christopher Travers, MS, and dietitian Laura Jeffers, MEd, RD, LD, offer some diet, nutrition, and fitness ideas that you can incorporate into your busy life to be healthier every day.
1. Use stairs and furniture as makeshift gym equipment
If you have stairs at your home or office, take them every chance you get. Don’t stop there, though. For a strong cardio workout, walk up and down the stairs repeatedly. Start with a limited number of repetitions and then increase them as you feel stronger. To continue reading please click on read the full article...
Oral health: A window to your overall health
Posted on march 20, 2022
Did you know that your oral health offers clues about your overall health — or that problems in your mouth can affect the rest of your body? Protect yourself by learning more about the connection between your oral health and overall health.
What's the connection between oral health and overall health?
Like other areas of the body, your mouth teems with bacteria — mostly harmless. But your mouth is the entry point to your digestive and respiratory tracts, and some of these bacteria can cause disease.
Normally the body's natural defenses and good oral health care, such as daily brushing and flossing, keep bacteria under control. However, without proper oral hygiene, bacteria can reach levels that might lead to oral infections, such as tooth decay and gum disease.
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7 Minute Workout
Posted on march 20, 2022
How It Works
You're busy. But chances are, you have 7 minutes in your schedule that you could spare.
When you don't have 30 or 60 minutes for a full workout, the 7-minute workout packs in a full-body exercise routine in a fraction of the time.
A performance coach and exercise physiologist from the Human Performance Institute in Orlando, FL, came up with this program to give their busy clients a more efficient yet still effective workout. They've put together a series of 12 different exercises that work the upper body, lower body, and core.
You do each exercise for 30 seconds -- long enough to get in about 15 to 20 repetitions. In between sets you rest for about 10 seconds.
The 12 exercises in the 7-minute workout target all the body's major muscle groups:
-Jumping jacks (total body)
-Wall sit (lower body)
-Push-up (upper body)
-Abdominal crunch (core)
-Step-up onto chair (total body)
-Squat (lower body)
-Triceps dip on chair (upper body)
-Plank (core)
-High knees/running in place (total body)
-Lunge (lower body)
-Push-up and rotation (upper body)
-Side plank (core)
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6 Myths About Exercise and Aging
Posted on May 7th, 2022
Fitness is timeless. At every age, it makes a huge difference in how you feel and move, helps you whittle down those numbers (like your weight, cholesterol, or blood pressure) that your doctor keeps mentioning, and even brightens your mood.
Inside and out, you win when you're active, no matter how old you are. But it doesn't always feel like that, especially if you've been on the sidelines for a while.
Have you fallen for one of these bogus ideas about aging and exercise? Get the facts, so you can get back out there.
1. “I’m too old.”
Actually, not moving is much riskier and can speed up the aging process.
Inactive people are twice as likely to develop heart disease, and they also have more doctor visits and take more medications.
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