Enjoying A Healthy Lifestyle with
Bryant and Anita Hewitt
Wednesday,
May 22, 2013
Food
To Chew On:
Wednesday
– What To Do About Special Problems
Jeremiah
29:7 (NKJV)
And
seek the peace of the city where I have caused you to be carried away captive,
and pray to the Lord for it; for in its peace you will have peace.
Thought For The Day
The
Lord loves the city. Love for the Lord must involve every Christian in one of
the areas of need in his or her city. Strength is given for service.
It is
mid-week already!! Wow where did the time go? Today is “Wrestling Wednesday,”
are you still wrestling with the healthy way of living VS the old foods you
love to eat? Well there is a solution…… if you have a blow day meaning just for
one day eat whatever you want to eat and then go back to your healthy eating… I
find that works for our household, so maybe it will work for you as well….In
the Meantime…
Have
A Healthy Wednesday with HHWN J
Elderly
Balance Exercises For Seniors to Help Prevent Falls
Can
I keep or regain my balance?
elderly
balance 3Here is the light at the end of the tunnel. I especially like working
with the elderly and seniors on balance simply because it is a skill that many
of us can keep during our adult life.
Though there are often many factors involved
with decreased balance as we age, a lot of this decline is simply due to our
inactivity.
This
can usually be improved with training. This training will involve improving
your overall upper and lower body strength along with challenging your balance
system daily with activities that require you to use the three systems I spoke
of above.
When
I talk to seniors about balance, I use the example of tennis player posture. If
you play tennis you know that there is a server and a receiver. Think of how
the receiver stands. Feet wide apart, knees and hips flexed, upper body leaning
forward.
Players
use this posture because it is the most "ready for action" position
they can get into in order to react to the serve. It is a very stable and safe
position. That is usually also our choice as we age...finding the safest most
balanced position.
Unfortunately,
when we make this choice, our balance system is poorly challenged and our brain
begins to become lazy. Our brain says, "Well, Mary just doesn't need all
that balance anymore. I'll start turning off some balance switches."
Here is another example. Have you ever watched
women’s gymnastics on the TV? Have you ever wondered how a 16 year old young
woman can jump onto a 4 inch wide beam way up in the air and do a hand stand or
flip?
Do you think any 16 year old young women could
do that? Well the answer is no. Someone who does not practice this level of
balance cannot perform these activities. They will fall off the beam and embarrass
themselves for sure!
Well, like anything else in life it is about
practice. There is a saying you may have heard but I put it in a different way.
"Practice makes PER...MANENT". If you are practicing something wrong,
it will be permanently wrong.
Are you practicing sitting in your recliner?
Come on, be honest. If you are, then you will certainly get better at sitting
in your recliner! Start practicing balance exercises.
Abs
Pirates Follow the Food
When
it comes to exercising for low body fat and bringing forth glorious abdominal
muscles, weight training for muscle growth has nothing to do with it. Burning
calories is the number one goal.
Abdominal
muscles, like hidden treasure on Pudge Island, are being adamantly searched for
from sea to shining sea in America. Abs exercises are transforming into
increasingly complex full-body workouts, stomach exercises are incorporating
more and more of the musculature; the metabolic rate of the country is
increasing.
However,
for the majority of Americans the abdominal bounty still remains a mystery.
Why? Furthermore, why did Zerohedge recently do an article that laid out some
dire fitness predictions for the states over the next decade? Apparently, by
2020 over three quarters of the population will be considered clinically obese.
This doesn’t bode well for the waist line, but there’s no point in blaming the
Abs exercises.
A
Healthy Menu For
Wednesday
For
the middle of the week, the Vermont Department of Health suggests beginning the
day with two scrambled eggs, a slice of whole-wheat toast with a teaspoon of Trans
fat-free margarine and a seasonal fruit. At lunch, try a cup of minestrone soup
with a side salad topped with a tablespoon of low-fat dressing. Finish your
hump day with one-and-one-third cups of beef stroganoff and a cup of cooked
broccoli and cauliflower topped with a tablespoon of shredded cheese.
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