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by Dr. Brandon Chorney | Aug 16, 2011 | Health Articles
Letting the date on your birth certificate dictate how you live your later years is a mistake. It doesn’t have to be that way. If you’re wondering how to give those pesky youngsters a run for their money, you must embrace the concept of exercise, even if you never did before. If you don’t want to be over the hill at 65, find a hill and start walking up it.
It is crucial to understand that humans are not meant to be sedentary creatures. Our jobs and our lifestyles may have created this situation, but our bodies are screaming out and telling us that we’ve got it all wrong. You can’t hear it? Yes, you can. The screaming is your pain.
A lack of exercise and pretty soon our bodies start to break down. Bones become brittle, our circulation grows sluggish from blood vessels that are atrophying, and our hearts start to labor. In short, our bodies begin dying sooner than they should.
Regular exercise and a healthy diet are your keys to longevity. Let’s take a look at some great advice for all you seniors out there:
Walking
- Walking helps to increase the elasticity of your blood vessels, making them less likely to form an aneurysm or ultimately rupture.
- Start small, at a third of a mile a day, which you can check using your car. Continue for three days a week for a month, then double the distance with the aim of getting up to one mile a day, three days a week.
- Don’t be put off by a little soreness. You will feel it in your calves and thighs. It just shows you your muscles are working, and that’s what you want. Anything beyond that minor discomfort is worth checking out with your chiropractor.
Stretching
- Stretching helps to prevent the bowing or stooping of the body we often associate with getting old, which is caused by the ligaments shortening. Normal breathing is to some degree inhibited by a stoop.
- Gently stretch out the groin muscles by sitting on the floor and bending one leg out to the side and back as far as comfortably possible. Or you can try sitting cross-legged with your butt on a cushion as you watch TV. The aim is to relax into the stretch without thinking about it too much.
- Stretch the muscles at the back of your legs in one of the following ways: Put your hands on a wall, then extend one leg out behind you and place the foot flat on the floor and lean into the wall a little; or, if you feel able, try the classic touch-your-ties stretch from standing; or put one foot out in front onto a couch and bend forward towards it
Eat Healthily
- Maintain a properly balanced diet. Any vitamins should be taken with a meal. Drink 10 eight-ounce glasses of water a day to keep the kidneys active in their task of diluting and removing toxins from the body, and to replace lost fluids. (Remember that coffee, tea, soft drinks and alcohol are diuretics and not a suitable substitute for water.)
by Dr. Brandon Chorney | Jul 19, 2011 | Health Articles
Despite everything we know about the dire effects of smoking, a staggering 50 million Americans still indulge in the habit. There will be many different responses to the question of why these people took their first cigarette, but the reason for every cigarette beyond that first one is the same: addiction to nicotine. Nicotine is highly addictive and quitting smoking is sometimes considered to be harder than coming off illegal drugs. Psychological reasons also complicate matters; the comfort people feel they derive from the habit, for example.
It is difficult, though, to fathom where exactly is the comfort in knowing you are drawing into your body over 4,000 poisonous chemicals, including arsenic. These chemicals not only form a tar-like substance that sticks to the inside of your mouth, throat, lungs, and stomach; they also damage your body as a whole by restricting the level of well-oxygenated blood that reaches your organs and everywhere else that your blood flows to. There are very few organs inside the body that are not directly compromised by your smoking, and all the most important ones certainly are: your heart, lungs, brain, stomach, bladder, kidneys, and the skin. Even your eyes suffer, with smokers being up to three times more likely to develop cataracts.
Why should you quit smoking?
All of the above, and keep in your mind that the world’s largest and longest-running study on the health risks of tobacco, published in The British Medical Journal in 2004, concluded that 50% of smokers who start smoking in their teens and do not give up will die prematurely as a direct result of their habit. We also now know that the effect of second-hand smoke on those around us – including family members and our friends – is highly toxic.
Quitting smoking will allow you to:
- Live longer and protect your family.
- Lower the chances of your baby suffering Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS).
- Exercise more easily and thus develop a healthier heart.
- Reduce your risk of developing dementia, including Alzheimer’s.
- Exhale breath that doesn’t smell like a year-old ashtray and cause people within ten feet to grimace and blaspheme quietly.
- Experience less heartburn.
- Manage a flight of stairs without nearly keeling over.
- Guys, avoid being labeled Mr Floppy in the bedroom department.
- Save more money to spend on things that won’t kill you.
How do you quit smoking?
- Decide for yourself that you are committed to quitting.
- Set a date to have quit by.
- Use positive affirmations in the present tense that refer to yourself as a non-smoker. Don’t say: “I will give up smoking”, i.e. sometime in the future. Instead, say: “I am a non-smoker.”
- Remove all cigarettes and associated paraphernalia from your home, car, personal work space, and wherever else you may feel the temptation.
- Don’t allow anyone else to smoke in your house.
- Ask that family, friends and co-workers support and encourage your efforts, even if they are smokers themselves. (You may want to reconsider the friendship of anyone who knows you are quitting and tries to lure you back in with a cigarette waved under your nose.)
- Consider joining an ex-smokers’ support group.
- Fight temptation with distracting tactics and activities.
- Drink lots of good fluids.
- Avoid drinking alcohol and, as far as reasonably possible, shun contact with smokers.
- Try one of the many quit-smoking products, such as gum or patches.
No one will tell you that quitting smoking is easy. With all the dire health warnings out there and emblazoned across the packets themselves, more people would quit if it were a simple matter of just stopping. Here are some tips to help you through:
- Expect to find yourself becoming irritable, nervous, and sleeping poorly – forewarned is forearmed.
- Keep something with you to occupy your hands, which will want to hold a cigarette again.
- Same applies to your mouth – gum or mints can help ease the loss of chewing on a cancer-stick.
- Know that things will quickly improve if you can get past the first few days.
- Remain focused on the immense health advantages of quitting.
- Don’t give up giving up. Many smokers experience false starts when quitting. Don’t assume you cannot give up just because you may succumb to temptation once or twice.
- Don’t wind up as a statistic in The British Medical Journal.
by Dr. Brandon Chorney | May 23, 2011 | Health Articles
Scoliosis is a condition that affects 5 to 7 million people in the United States, most often adolescents between the ages of 10 and 15, and more commonly girls, although it can affect any age. Over half a million visits to the doctor are made each year to either evaluate or treat scoliosis. As the...
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