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Staying healthy
by Sintilia Miecevole
http://www.qdhealth.com

As you age, your health and fitness
levels become much more important for your overall life. A
regular schedule of exercise and physical activity is one
of the best ways for you to keep your health when you get
older. Many older people lose their health and ability to
do things on their own simply because they have become
inactive. To stay healthy, older adults need to focus on
specific areas of their health: endurance, strength,
balance, and flexibility.

If you want to stay healthy, there are some activities
you can do to build up these four areas. These activities
are the following:

What endurance activities help to do is to increase
your heart rate and your breathing rate over long periods
of time. To improve the overall health of your lungs,
heart, and circulatory system is what these activities
will do. You should include these endurance activities in
your everyday schedule to help your body delay or even
prevent the start of certain illnesses.

If you do not have strength, your general health may
deteriorate quickly. When you reach a certain age,
strength exercises are helpful for keeping strong and able
to do activities on your own.

Balance exercises help older adults keep the all
important ability to keep balance. When you keep this skill
in later years, it will help you avoid falls and
accidents, which are common causes for disabilities in
older adults. These disabilities will also diminish a
persons overall health.

Stretching keep the body flexible and limber. It is easy
to lose range of motion in many parts of the body at older
ages.

It is easy...if you do not use your body regularly, your
health will not get better. It is similar to the old
saying that states that you have to "use it or lose it".

You not only have to improve your physical activities but
also change your eating habits towards a more healthy diet
after the age of 50. This way you will maintain your
health in a good state and help your body keep its active
status. You may even prevent and delay cardiovascular
diseases, such as high blood pressure, by eating less
fatty foods. And to reduce the risk of getting particular
types of cancer you should increase your intake of fruits
and vegetables. The USDA offers you a guide, called the
food pyramid, for you to learn how much to eat of certain
types of foods. It would be great if you follow that guide
because that way you will achieve huge benefits for your
health.

So, if you have past the age of 50, always remember that
to eat right and to exercise daily is very important for
your health. The sooner you start acquiring these habits,
the better, but if you haven't started early you can do it
right now no matter the age!

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