Monday, October 15, 2007

Belizegial's Health Tip


Good morning Everyone,
According to a recent piece in The New Yorker by the physician-journalist Atul Gawande, if you want to have better quality of life as you age, these three things will have a dramatic effect:

1. Practice yoga or any form of exercise that will help your balance
2. Try to limit your prescription medicines to no more than four
3. Lift weights

And why these three? The single most serious physical risk that the elderly face is an injury from falling. According to Gawande's piece, "Each year, about three hundred and fifty thousand Americans fall and break a hip. Of those, forty per cent end up in a nursing home, and twenty per cent are never able to walk again. The three primary risk factors for falling are poor balance, taking more than four prescription medications, and muscle weakness."

Thanks for visiting here and have a splendiferous and healthy week ahead.

12 comments:

Frank Partisan said...

Interesting ideas to combat falls.

Another is keep padding by the bed, to cushion falls from bed. In the same vein, have a low from the floor bed.

Dagoth said...

Hi Enid

What good advice, especially for someone my age... wait, I'm not quite there yet, but I have heard of several studies wherein weightlifting was supposed to be very good for people as they got older... So I guess I'll go pump some iron...

Anonymous said...

Hi Enid,
thanks for stopping by at my blogsite... great to see you there and glad that you enjoyed those pictures. have a hay day!

Anonymous said...

i do pilates... lift weights? ok, i'll do that too. =D

Pfingston said...

as I keep telling my mother!
BTW I've been enjoying the e-mails you send along . .

Meow (aka Connie) said...

That's very interesting. I'll have to keep that in mind as I age !!
Hope you are well, Enid.
Take care, Meow

heiresschild said...

hi enid, hope you're having a great weekend. i've started exercising again; now to just keep it up.

Jo said...

I do weight training twice a week, and I do aerobics, mostly the treadmill, three times a week. I feel really grotty when I don't do it. It's good for our bones.

Great post!

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