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An A-Z of fitness, health and nutrition terms that you may come across on this website:
Absolute Strength: The maximum amount a person can lift in one repetition.
Accommodating Resistance: Increasing resistance Nautilus machines are said to provide accommodating resistance.
Acquired Ageing: The acquisition of characteristics commonly associated with ageing but that are, in fact, caused by immobility or sedentary living.
Encourage children to lead a healthier lifestyle early
Most children are active all the time usually children will walk or cycle a few miles per day without even realising it when they are out with friends, but in today’s age more and more children are having weight problems to some degree.
The problems sometime correct themselves for children put on weight then have a spurt in growth and these patterns can correct themselves within a few months.
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We know that living a healthier lifestyle by eating a well balanced diet and having exercise on a daily basis can help reduce the risk of health problems such as heart disease and cancer. But recent studies have also shown that exercising during midlife for half an hour can help by significantly reducing the risk of developing dementia later in life.
Studies have shown that people in there 40`s and early 50`s who exercise on a daily basis could reduce their risk of having dementia by up to 50%. A reduction of around 60% could be seen in people who are genetically prone to Alzheimer’s disease.
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Living a healthier style just isn’t about eating healthier and exercising, a healthy lifestyle should be a complete way of life. Your body, mind and soul should be in complete harmony and by following a few simple steps we can all achieve this in our lives. Your body needs a healthy diet which consists of vitamins, minerals and nutrients but it also needs mental energy:
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One of the biggest problems is keeping yourself motivated to keeping up the new exercise and eating healthier plans you have started. Listed below are some points to help you maintain your new lifestyle:
Set goals that you can reach – We would all like to have a flat stomach and rippling muscles but when you start out on any fitness plan try and set your goals realistically, if you set goals that are beyond your means then chances are that you will become bored and lose interest.
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We know the importance of living a healthy lifestyle, eating a healthy diet and exercising can help us to look after our heart and ward off heart disease and other major illnesses. Having a daily exercise plan will also leave you feeling less tired and stressed and can also make you feel happier.
Research has shown that people suffering from depression have felt a lot better when taking some form of activity on a regular basis. Exercising not only makes you feel good but also makes you look good, it helps to tone and strengthen muscles which will improve your posture and help burn body fat.
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Research has shown that drinking alcohol in moderate amounts can be beneficial to the health, for men over the age of 40 and women in the menopause having a couple of small drinks per day can help in the prevention of heart disease.
Having said this it is also a fact that over a quarter of men and one in every six women drink enough alcohol to put their health at risk.
How much is too much? Guidelines suggest that men should drink no more than three to four units of alcohol per day and women should have no more than two to three units per day, it is important to remember that these units shouldn’t be stored up and used together all in one session and go on a binge drinking spree.
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Smoking is the single most preventable cause of death and disease the world over, over 4 million people a year die from smoking and cigarette smoking accounts at least for 30% of all cancer related deaths.
Smoking is the major cause of many types of cancer including, lung, larynx and oesophagus cancers and is one of the main contributing causes of cancer of the bladder, liver, cervix, stomach and colon.
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Walk your way to a healthier you
Walking is one of the best all-round forms of exercise we can have, it is a way of keeping fit and losing weight that doesn’t cost anything but the rewards we can reap from it are endless. To lose weight we must burn off more calories than we eat and walking is one form of exercise that can help us to do this.
As a general guide a person weighing 60kg would burn off 150 calories if they were to walk at a brisk pace for a half hour. A heavier person would burn off more calories per half hour and a lighter one less calories.
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Many people are under the impression that for exercise to be beneficial to our health it has to be strenuous exercise, in fact research has shown that exercise done in a mild to moderate form is actually more beneficial to our health.
In order to determine exactly how much exercise we actually need per week we have to be clear about what we actually want to achieve from our exercise routine, do you want to exercise for fitness or for a healthier you. This may sound confusing for often the terms are used to mean the same thing but they do have very different meanings.