Things For Seniors To Avoid For A Healthy Life
What Not to do When You Want to Achieve Healthy Aging Some people thrive on lists of things to do. Here is a list of things not to do when you want to achieve healthy aging. The list includes lifestyle habits, activities and coping mechanisms.
Things You Should Not Do if You Expect to Live to 100:
- Avoid all contact with healthcare professionals
- Chain smoke several packs of cigarettes a day
- Have multiple sex partners and forget to take precautions like wearing condoms
- Ignore body signs like pain, discolorations and loss of mobility
- Eat like there is no such thing as obesity or moderation
- Forget to take your vitamins and mineral supplements, or better yet throw the bottles out
- Sit around all day doing absolutely nothing of value
- Avoid all human contact and never marry or form other lasting human attachments
- Inactivity slowly destroys our body systems, so ignore this information and remain a couch potato, you look good in rolls of fat and stretched out clothing
- Crave what is unnatural and chemically altered
- Throw away all home exercise equipment, you never use them anyways and avoid all exercise programs and fitness clubs like the plague
- Live life large by participating in risky activities like bungee jumping, racing cars, and rodeo riding.
The sure way to not live a long and healthy life is to ignore healthy habits like eating nutritious meals, healthy snacks, and taking dietary supplements. When you live for the moment that may be all you have. Planning for your future ensures that you have the chance to have one.
Avoiding unnecessary physical risk and unhealthy exposure to disease and injury gives you the chance to have a healthy body that can continue to function as it was intended. Listening to the signals your body gives you concerning how it is functioning assures that you receive medical, dental or mental healthcare in time to prevent serious complications. Exercise is your friend and contributes to the healthy conditioning and function ability of your body.
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Your health care provider is required to ask patients about pain levels and the intensity of their pain. Treatment is then determined with feedback from the patient.
Pain is more than just an uncomfortable feeling or sensation in your body. Pain will keep you from healing properly after surgery and have a huge impact on your quality of life. Managing pain is important if you want to preserve a good quality of life.
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Abstaining from sex or having only one sexual partner assures that you will have the ability to avoid many of the sexually transmitted diseases that can shorten your lifespan. Understanding your family health history can aid you in taking preventative measures that will lower your risk for these diseases. Keeping your annual health screenings can help you to detect the early signs of any diseases that you are at risk for based on your family history.
Make sure that your healthcare team is well aware of what these family risk factors are. You can live a long life if you practice healthy habits like bodily cleanliness, avoiding excessive eating, stay away from social drugs, tobacco products and alcohol. One important issue that all of us must be aware of is our ability to understand and monitor our body. Our body gives us many clues as to how it is functioning.
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Play some of the mental arithmetic games that are available. Or get a newspaper and do the crossword puzzles. Mental arithmetic has been found to prevent, and slow down the onset of Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's. |
Pain, discoloration, swelling, loss of function; these are all warning signs that our body uses to communicate with us so that we can address these needs and restore our body to health. Ignoring these signs can lead to disease, or further injury. Our mental health is closely related to our physical health, so be sure to seek help if stress becomes overwhelming or we notice signs of depression in others or ourselves.
Healthy Aging Issues Today
09/03/2008
Japan faces crematorium shortage amid rapid aging (AP via Yahoo! News)
Japan's rapidly aging society is forecast to lead to shortfalls in young people, workers and tax revenues. Add to that another shortage: crematoria.
Japan faces crematorium shortage amid rapid aging (AP via Yahoo! News)
09/04/2008
State agencies launch project to meet needs of aging population (WCAX-TV Vermont)
Associated Press - September 4, 2008 3:05 AM ET ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - The New York Department of State and Office for the Aging are launching a project today to help communities meet the needs of...
State agencies launch project to meet needs of aging population (WCAX-TV Vermont)
09/03/2008
Japan faces crematorium shortage amid rapid aging (AP via Yahoo! News)
Japan's rapidly aging society is forecast to lead to shortfalls in young people, workers and tax revenues. Add to that another shortage: crematoria.
Japan faces crematorium shortage amid rapid aging (AP via Yahoo! News)
09/04/2008
Rapidly aging Japan faces yet another shortage: crematoriums (The Japan Times)
Japan's rapidly aging society is forecast to lead to shortfalls in young people, workers and tax revenues. Add to that another shortage: crematoriums. The number of people dying annually in Japan rose to 1.1 million in 2007, with nearly all of them cremated, according to the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry. Read the full story
Rapidly aging Japan faces yet another shortage: crematoriums (The Japan Times)
09/04/2008
Aging Eastland Center getting mini makeover (Detroit Free Press)
Eastland Center in Harper Woods has had its share of ups and downs, like other aging malls around metro Detroit. While Eastland has struggled for its share of tenants, it appears to have turned the corner as it begins welcoming retailers to spaces that have been vacant for several years.
Aging Eastland Center getting mini makeover (Detroit Free Press)
09/04/2008
State agencies launch project to meet needs of aging population (WRGB Albany)
ALBANY, N.Y. The New York Department of State and Office for the Aging are launching a project today to help communities meet the needs of a growing population of elderly residents.
State agencies launch project to meet needs of aging population (WRGB Albany)
09/04/2008
State Agencies Launch Project to Meet Needs of Aging Population (WSYR 9 Syracuse)
Albany, N.Y. (AP) -- The New York Department of State and Office for the Aging are launching a project Thursday to help communities meet the needs of a growing population...
State Agencies Launch Project to Meet Needs of Aging Population (WSYR 9 Syracuse)
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