Everyone knows health care costs are on the rise so what is a person supposed to do who is on a fixed income, get busy-that's right get busy. This is no time to sit around feeling sorry for yourself or hoping for the magic fairy to bring you the money tree, nope it just isn't going to happen, if you want to be around the next 50 years listen up.
Unfortunately across the United States, where the majority of these people have food supplies in abundance and their lifestyles are sedentary, excessive weight gain has reached epidemic proportions, with more than 1.5 billion adults being either overweight or obese. Being overweight typically means that the body has more fat than is optimally healthy where as to be obese is when a persons weight is more than 20 percent above the normal weight, and to be "morbid obese" means that a person is either 50-100 percent over the normal weight, or is sufficiently overweight to severely interfere with health or normal day to day functions.
A typical measurement for determining ones measure of obesity is that of the BMI- Body Mass Index. It is calculated from your height and weight to determine the estimate of body fat your body holds and what you are at risk for, such as heart disease, high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, breathing problems, and certain types of cancers.
Through medication you learn how to control your body functions with relation to those feelings that come from your own perceptions as well as our environment. By mediating you bring a state of consciousness that brings serenity, clarity, and peace. When you make medication a part of your daily lives you begin to control your reaction to situations by bouncing from one thought to another and follow with a more calm emotional and physical reaction.
Endurance activities such as that of walking, swimming, or riding a bike, improve your circulatory system by strengthening your heart and other muscles in your body. If you enjoy muscle building, lifting light weights and doing resistance exercising such as push ups, sit ups, flutter kicks, yoga, and or Pilates will build muscle tissue and reduce age-related muscle loss, not to mention keeping the body limber and flexible, which will reduce the chances of a fall.
Should you look on the physical side of things, it makes sense keeping your body in shape, if you look on the financial side of things it also makes sense to keep in shape. Did you know that health care costs are increasing at an annual rate of 7 percent a year? If this trend were to continue, and as of right now it looks to do so; the Medicare program will go bankrupt in nine years and the overall annual health care tab will be over $4 trillion. So don't plan on the Medicare program to back up your health care the rest of your life.
When an idea does not agree with you do you think about it a lot? Do you dream about bad decisions or continue to bring it up with family or friends? Based on your last week at work or home was there ever at time when you got so angry you forgot what you were angry about? Do you get upset and have physical reactions such as headache, stomachache, or your heart gets to pounding? Have you found yourself avoiding people, or places so you don't run into possible confrontations? Do you startle easily? Are there angry outbursts that quickly form and launch from you? When it's time for sleep do you find it difficult to fall sleep or stay asleep?
NYC offers free classes taught by expert fitness instructors who know how to make fitness fun, there are classes ranging in ability levels from aerobics, and yoga, to Pilates and zumba, the key is to have fun while moving that body.
Like so many of us, we live a healthy, active lifestyle in our youth and then give in to a desk job, and or more sedentary lifestyle where we move less, gain weight, lose our energy levels and any desire to get back out there getting our bodies in motion. However it does not have to be this way any longer, right now you have a choice, a choice to get active or stay sedentary, what are you going to choose?
Live with no regrets, take care of yourself today and prevent disease and illness from coming your way. There are so many services that are free, so check around and find ones that interest you, recruit a friend or two if you don't want to exercise alone, and remember it is ok to miss a day or two of exercise- don't berate yourself, just try to stay on track and remember to realistic, you will not look like a body builder over night but your heart muscle just might and for that your whole body with thank you.
Unfortunately across the United States, where the majority of these people have food supplies in abundance and their lifestyles are sedentary, excessive weight gain has reached epidemic proportions, with more than 1.5 billion adults being either overweight or obese. Being overweight typically means that the body has more fat than is optimally healthy where as to be obese is when a persons weight is more than 20 percent above the normal weight, and to be "morbid obese" means that a person is either 50-100 percent over the normal weight, or is sufficiently overweight to severely interfere with health or normal day to day functions.
A typical measurement for determining ones measure of obesity is that of the BMI- Body Mass Index. It is calculated from your height and weight to determine the estimate of body fat your body holds and what you are at risk for, such as heart disease, high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, breathing problems, and certain types of cancers.
Through medication you learn how to control your body functions with relation to those feelings that come from your own perceptions as well as our environment. By mediating you bring a state of consciousness that brings serenity, clarity, and peace. When you make medication a part of your daily lives you begin to control your reaction to situations by bouncing from one thought to another and follow with a more calm emotional and physical reaction.
Endurance activities such as that of walking, swimming, or riding a bike, improve your circulatory system by strengthening your heart and other muscles in your body. If you enjoy muscle building, lifting light weights and doing resistance exercising such as push ups, sit ups, flutter kicks, yoga, and or Pilates will build muscle tissue and reduce age-related muscle loss, not to mention keeping the body limber and flexible, which will reduce the chances of a fall.
Should you look on the physical side of things, it makes sense keeping your body in shape, if you look on the financial side of things it also makes sense to keep in shape. Did you know that health care costs are increasing at an annual rate of 7 percent a year? If this trend were to continue, and as of right now it looks to do so; the Medicare program will go bankrupt in nine years and the overall annual health care tab will be over $4 trillion. So don't plan on the Medicare program to back up your health care the rest of your life.
When an idea does not agree with you do you think about it a lot? Do you dream about bad decisions or continue to bring it up with family or friends? Based on your last week at work or home was there ever at time when you got so angry you forgot what you were angry about? Do you get upset and have physical reactions such as headache, stomachache, or your heart gets to pounding? Have you found yourself avoiding people, or places so you don't run into possible confrontations? Do you startle easily? Are there angry outbursts that quickly form and launch from you? When it's time for sleep do you find it difficult to fall sleep or stay asleep?
NYC offers free classes taught by expert fitness instructors who know how to make fitness fun, there are classes ranging in ability levels from aerobics, and yoga, to Pilates and zumba, the key is to have fun while moving that body.
Like so many of us, we live a healthy, active lifestyle in our youth and then give in to a desk job, and or more sedentary lifestyle where we move less, gain weight, lose our energy levels and any desire to get back out there getting our bodies in motion. However it does not have to be this way any longer, right now you have a choice, a choice to get active or stay sedentary, what are you going to choose?
Live with no regrets, take care of yourself today and prevent disease and illness from coming your way. There are so many services that are free, so check around and find ones that interest you, recruit a friend or two if you don't want to exercise alone, and remember it is ok to miss a day or two of exercise- don't berate yourself, just try to stay on track and remember to realistic, you will not look like a body builder over night but your heart muscle just might and for that your whole body with thank you.
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