+++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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It’s an interesting time for health: more medicines than ever before to “cure” things we didn’t know we suffered from, and medications that will take weight off with no effort needed at all…OR we could just continue to watch what we eat, get daily exercise, and stop stressing about all of the medications we are told we should be taking to cure things we’ve never heard of!
I agree John…..a healthy lifestyle will prevent many of the problems we have. chuq
And keep us from falling prey to medicines designed to be taken for the rest of our lives with never-ending $$$$
Indeed chuq
We have been told how unhealthy it is to be obese. Must be a point at which being obese is not healthy. Study not say anything about that Hard to know who to listen to.
Right and that is why I say consult your medical professional with any questions. chuq
I am not slim, but I am also not worried about my weight. I haven’t weighed myself for 25 years or more, and I go by how clothes fit. I have taken the same size clothes since I was around 30 years old, so that’s good enough for me.
Best wishes, Pete.
The only time I weigh is when I visit the doctor and they need that with BP and O2 levels. chuq