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Just a Little Daily Movement Helps

Just a Little Daily Movement Helps
Interrupt prolonged sitting with standing Stand more, live longer Abundant evidence shows that prolonged, uninterrupted sitting predicts poor health outcomes. Standing might improve health compared to sitting. Data from 16,586 participants with an average age of 42 years at baseline in the 1981 Canadian Fitness Survey offered an opportunity to test this idea. Participants were…
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Manage High Blood Pressure With Healthy Lifestyle Choices

Manage High Blood Pressure With Healthy Lifestyle Choices
Avoid hypertension Reduce your risk of premature death High blood pressure (hypertension) predicts increased risk of cardiovascular disease, the leading cause of death globally and in Western countries. Italian medical researchers recently published a brief review of evidence linking lifestyle choices to hypertension. The authors found clear evidence that minimal to modest alcohol intake, not…
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How Many Steps Per Day?

How Many Steps Per Day?
Is 10,000 the magic number? Maybe not magic, but 10,000 daily steps can improve your health Accelerometers are small, simple, inexpensive devices that capture data to calculate the number of daily steps. While accelerometers are relatively new in America, they’ve been used in Japan since the 1960s. Japanese widely embrace a goal of 10,000 steps…
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Reduce Your Risk of Dementia

Reduce Your Risk of Dementia
Dementia exacts huge social and economic tolls on Americans Adopting healthy lifestyle choices can help you avoid dementia In 2017, the Lancet Commission in the UK published a report, “Dementia prevention, intervention, and care.” The report identified nine potentially modifiable risk factors for dementia. The risk factors included less education, hypertension, hearing impairment, smoking, obesity,…
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