+++Let me say from the onset I am not offering medical advice just offer up some recent studies that could effect you and your health….please see your doctor before starting any new plans of action for your health+++

It is Sunday and I would like to offer a wee bit of FYI…..as we grow older we fight many health battles….most common of them is blood pressure and weight….I offer up a few looks at both of these problems….

Last Sunday I posted on some news about high blood pressure and according to the response it was about as popular as a turd in a punch bowl….or people just do not care about their health….I decided to try again and re-post it….

For The Blood Pressure Watchers

Next the other thing that us seniors seem obsessed about is watching our weight…..there is some research that says we need not be tied tom those scales….

There are good reasons to step away from the scale. It can be a place of supreme stress, in a society that prizes thinness and stigmatizes fat. Then there’s the mounting scientific evidence that weight–and, accordingly, body mass index–are unreliable indicators of health. 

Cardiorespiratory, or aerobic, fitness is a much better predictor of all-cause mortality and heart disease risk than BMI, according to a comprehensive review published November 12 in the British Journal of Sports Medicine. People classified as overweight and obese who had high cardiorespiratory fitness were not at higher risk of death or chronic diseases like hypertension than their thin counterparts. They also had 2-3-fold lower mortality risk than those of “normal weight” but with low fitness, per the recent research. It’s just the latest entry into the litany of studies demonstrating that fitness and fatness are far from mutually exclusive.

“Once you factor in fitness, BMI really didn’t have much statistical predictive ability at all,” says Siddhartha Angadi, senior author on the November analysis and an associate professor of Kinesiology at the University of Virginia. “The risks of being unfit are far greater than the risk of carrying a few extra pounds,” he adds.

https://www.popsci.com/health/tracking-fitness-without-bmi/

Again this is not medical advice just FYI on subjects I found while searching the web….please check with your doctor before altering any of your health routine.

Have a wonderful day and try to relax and enjoy yourself….and as always….Be Well and Be Safe….

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