“We are what we eat” (Nutrition and Exercise‚ 2000). Maintaining a healthy lifestyle is not easy. Luckily‚ my family taught me at early age how important maintaining optimal health by having nutritional strategies. There are two specific nutritional strategies I would like to share with you. The first one is eating less sugar. I grew up not eating a lot of high sugar content junk foods and so as an adult‚ I rarely eat pastries‚ ice cream‚ candies or drink sodas. I prefer water and the only high sugar
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Simple Ways to Live a Healthy Lifestyle By Paige WaehnerApril 03‚ 2014 Brazilian Foresty feeds Investors Returns of 12-22% p.a. Invest now. You hear a lot about living a healthy lifestyle‚ enough that the phrase ’healthy lifestyle’ may be one we’d like to permanently retire. The problem is‚ that phrase describes the life we need to live if we want to feel good and look good. So‚ what does it actually mean? Well‚ there are the obvious things that describe a healthy person: He
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Lifestyle Disease A lifestyle disease is one where a person’s choice in how they live their life – what they eat‚ how they socialize‚ where they work‚ how they care of themselves – either causes or increases their chances of contracting. This makes them different from other diseases which are caused by things such as genetics (inherited from family background) or chance (like catching a cold from a friend). Modern life increases the number of people with lifestyle diseases. An industrialized
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Lifestyle Diseases There are many diseases that contribute immensely to the burden placed on a person‚ a family‚ a society and a country‚ and despite advances in medicine‚ the number of people with such diseases continues to increase with people dying younger. In a newspaper article dated back two years stated that in June the previous year‚ Pacific health ministers had declared a non-communicable disease (NCD) crisis because it was revealed that the Pacific was breeding a generation of obese children
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Cited: Berman‚ Claire. “Caring For Yourself While Caring For Your Aging Parents.” New York: Henry Holt and Company‚ Inc. 1996. Greenberg‚ Vivian E. “Your Best is Not Good Enough.” Massachusetts: Lexington Books. 1989. Levy‚ Michael T.‚ M.D. “Parenting Mom and Dad: A Guide For the Grown-Up Children of Aging Parents.” New York: Prentice Hall Press. 1991. Loverde‚ Joy. “The Complete Eldercare Planner.” rev. ed. New York: Hyperion. 1997.
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happier life stems from living a healthy lifestyle. There are many ways that one can live such a life. Getting an appropriate amount of sleep is important to everyone. Without rest‚ the human body will not function properly. The immune system weakens and people are more susceptible to everyday illnesses. Also‚ a well balanced diet that incorporates all of the major food groups and doesn ’t exceed recommended daily caloric intake is crucial in any healthy lifestyle. Along with eating well‚ one should get
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UNHEALTHY LIFESTYLE An unhealthy lifestyle is one of the major contributor to almost every disease‚ illness and health issue that we are facing in this country and the whole world today as well. Late sleeping‚ snacking‚ breakfast eating‚ body weight‚ lack of exercising‚ alcohol consumption and smoking‚ these are the examples of way to define unhealthy lifestyle. However‚ the common way of defining unhealthy lifestyle are poor sleep hygiene‚ sexual promiscuity and substance abuse.
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Medical Care for an Aging Population Chad Sommers HCS/440 January 12‚ 2012 Pranab Rout Aging is an inevitable event that all people will have to face at sometime in their life. No matter gender‚ ethnicity‚ or race‚ aging affects every individual in different ways as unique as their own personality. As the Baby-Boomer generation begins to reach retirement age‚ there is becoming an urgent need for expanding the national geriatric medical services
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Diet and Lifestyle Diet and lifestyle have a significant effect on the risk of heart disease; a poor diet and lifestyle increases the risk of heart disease whilst a healthy diet and lifestyle decreases the risk. A poor diet increases the risk of coronary heart disease‚ for instance‚ a diet that is high in saturated fat is associated with high blood cholesterol levels. If blood cholesterol levels are high (240mg per 100cm3) then the risk of coronary heart disease is increased. This is due to the fact
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Good morning‚ I am honored to be here today on this occasion to learn about healthy lifestyles awareness. Similarly you should also be honored to learn about these issues and stay life longer in this wonderful world. Before I start my speech‚ let me tell you how serious the chronic diseases happen in your surroundings. According to Health Ministry recently revealed there are around 2.6million Malaysians who suffer from diabetes – which makes 1 in 5 people have diabetes. While‚ more than 50% of Malaysian
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