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Exercise And Aging, People

Exercise And Aging

Slowing The Aging Process

Studies on aging show that exercise is important to promoting good health, functional independence, and a good quality of life in older adults.  Exercise helps slow the aging process by preventing or reducing the chances of disease and disability in seniors.

Staying Active As We Grow Older

Exercise helps regulate blood pressure and boost the good cholesterol.  Exercise  reduces obesity, which is a contributor to heart disease and diabetes.  Studies  show that physical activity that included weight-bearing exercise can help prevent osteoporosis.  Older adults are at a greater risk for osteoporosis.aging

  1. Can reduce the risk of premature death
  2. Reduces the risk of developing and/or dying from heart disease.
  3. May reduce high blood pressure or the risk of developing high blood pressure.
  4. Reduces high cholesterol or the risk of developing high cholesterol.
  5. May reduce the risk of developing colon cancer and breast cancer.
  6. Reduces the risk of developing diabetes.
  7. Builds and maintain healthy muscles, bones, and joints.
  8. Reduces depression and anxiety.
  9. Improves psychological well being.
  10. Older people can increase their muscle size and strength, just like younger people through exercise.

Summary

Age is not a hindrance to exercise.  The more we exercise the better our chances to outlive people who do not exercise.  Exercise contributes to longer life by reducing the effect of growing old.  Regular exercise improves our aerobic capacity, coordination, balance and posture.

Lack of regular exercise is associated with obesity, high blood pressure, high cholesterol levels, and a higher risk of diabetes, gallstones, osteoporosis, and heart disease.

Many doctors believe that a sedentary lifestyle, not aging is the real reason many of use experience declines in later. The more active we are the healthier we will be.  Staying physically active appears to be more important the older we get.

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If you wish to avoid an early demise, it is wise to exercise.

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Managing Your Lifestyle Choices

Lifestyle Choices

Your lifestyle choices should include good nutrition and exercise.  These two choices can slow, stop, and even reverse the changes in the body once blamed on aging.

Did You Know?

  • Researchers estimate that if people born today practiced good habits, the average life span could soar from the current 76 years to 100 years.
  • The older brain, when challenged with new activities, can continue to develop and learn until very late in life.
  • Lifestyle choices have a greater effect on aging than our genes.  Studies reveal that diet, exercise, social support, spiritual support, mental stimulation and a sense of self-efficacy are the key factors that determine how well you age.
  • People thinking positively about getting older live seven and a half years longer than those who think negatively.
  • Anticipating a happy, funny event can raise levels of endorphins, and other pleasure relaxation inducing hormones.
  • Laughter lowers the production of stress hormones.
  • At least fifty percent of age related change in muscles, bones, and joints are caused disuse.

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People

Anti Aging Fact Or Fiction

Anti Aging: Planning For the Retirement Years

I am writing this anti aging article because I want to raise awareness to the need to plan and manage our extended longevity just as we do with our financial planning.

Anti aging, are there any benefits to plan for it? Yes, but you cannot be measured by the benefits of planning for your retirement years in monetary terms but rather in the “Quality of Your Life”

Life Expectancy

It is a fact that our life expectancy continues to increase. Each generation gradually outlives the previous generation. Living longer or well past the 65-year-old milestone is a relatively new phenomenon for us here in the US.

Numerous social, physical, emotional, and economical changes take place as we age. The majority of us are not aware, or prepared for these changes. However, prepared or not, we are, or soon will be, in the final stage of our lives. How we respond to this extended segment of our life, and how we realistically prepare for it, will determine if these will be the golden years or difficult times ahead.

Negatives Of Aging

We hear a great deal about the negatives of aging, sometimes referred to as the “downhill slide”. We are told that we may experience:

  • slower reflexes,
  • gray hair, or balding,
  • wrinkling of the skin,
  • decreasing vision and hearing,
  • high blood pressure,
  • arthritis, osteoporosis, and all the other degenerative diseases.

So the question arises – what do we have to look forward to in retirement? How enjoyable can life in older age be? Actually, the quality of our life in older age can be as rewarding as we plan it to be.

Components Of Anti Aging

Once you see how the various components of aging affect us all, you can make informed decisions regarding your aging process.

  • Minimize your stress
  • Try to get close to eight hours of sleep.
  • Eat moderate amounts of nutritious foods
  • Get  lots of exercise.
  • Do not  smokes.

It is not any one component that affects aging, rather it is the cumulative factors, most of which we can influence, that ultimately determines how we can slow down the rapidity of our aging.

By utilizing anti aging principles and practices, we can prepare ourselves physical, emotionally, physiologically, and spiritually to be in the best possible condition to enjoy life especially in the later years.

Most Americans, unfortunately, do not follow healthy habits. The greatest irony would be to discover that a pill is not, in the end, any more effective than the healthy habits we already ignore.

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Benefits Of Having A Pet, People, Pets

Dog Owners And Their Active Social Life

The Active Social Life Of Dog Owners

Polls show people with dogs have a more active social life than people without dogs. Dog owners trust others who have dog’s more than just random people walking on the street and are more likely to go up and interact with them.

Dogs, which take part in their owners outdoor exercise activities, make it easy to have an active social life. For example when owners and their dogs play in parks and participate in doggie play dates, they have a chance to form bonds with other dogs and other people.

Single Dog Owners And Dating

Walking your canine in dog parks on a regular basis has a very high chance to set you up on a date, with another dog lover. Normally, people are a lot more open toward dog owners, and the more dogs you have, the better. It gives others a reason to stop and talk to you.

Ten Ways Dogs Can Help You Make Friends

People who love animals tend to bond easily even if they don’t have a pet of their own. If you do have one, it can provide plenty of ways to meet new friends. The best part is, you’ll already have something in common so conversations may flow a little bit easier in the beginning.

  1. Dogs Show Off Your Best Side
  2. You Can Meet New People at the Dog Park
  3. Sit Outside With Your Dog at the Coffee Shop
  4. Chat With Other Dog Owners at the Vet
  5. Dog Are an Instant Source of Conversation
  6. They Help You Get Out for a Walk Where You Can Meet Your Neighbors
  7. Connecting With People Who Can Dog Sit for You
  8. Join a Special Dog Group and Meet Other Enthusiasts
  9. Meet Other Dog Owners at the Groomer
  10. Take Your Dog to Obedience Class

 Ways Dogs Can Help You Make Friends

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People, Therapeutic Garments-Wraps

Therapeutic Garments-Wraps

Therapeutic Garments-Wraps

Kelley’s  Therapeutic Garments-Wraps can be used for pain. The majority of our products are made using a patented method to create multi-pocket assemblages called WhatEver PocKits®. You can buy a  kit to ease your pain or your pet’s pain. Yes, we do have therapeutic garments for pets too. The kits help you ease pain naturally. Our WhatEver PocKits® are ideal for therapeutic, rehabilitative and general uses. They are proudly made in the USA. Our mission is to bring attention through our therapeutic garments to alternative methods of dealing with pain and keeping the body strong, vibrant and healthy.

To use our therapeutic garments for pain relief, you can just insert ice or heat packs into the pockets of the assemblages. If you want to use our therapeutic garments for rehabilitative purposes, you can insert exercise weights into the pockets of the assemblages. You can also just put in things you’ll need while maintaining an active lifestyle such as water bottles, sports drinks, cell phones and more.

When To Use Our Therapeutic Garments-Wraps  As A Cooling Kit?

Outdoor activities, especially those that you participate in during the hottest times of the day and year, could lead you to overheat, become fatigued, perspire excessively, and more.

Cool compresses or other cooling devices can relieve many of the symptoms related to overheating.  It’s a common and accepted medical practice to add cooling elements like ice to ease body discomforts.

Our therapeutic garments provide places for you to include these elements with ease so you can continue being your active self without stopping.

If you are already injured, the optimum time to cool the area is immediately after the incident occurs. Our therapeutic garments, combined with cold packs, can relieve muscular discomfort caused by physical activities that require the extended use of the arms and legs.

When to Use Our Therapeutic Garments-Wraps  With Heat?

Over time, the value of heat treatments for easing or preventing pain in muscle tissue has been well proven. Muscles that tend to cramp, for example, can benefit from the application of heat before strenuous exercise. This enriches the blood supply to the appropriate area. When you have localized injury or pain, which may be caused by torn muscles and connective tissues, our therapeutic garments can provide heat to the area. This will speed up and enhance the healing process.

Other Uses for Our Therapeutic Garments-Wraps

Our therapeutic garments can help you when participating in outdoor activities by being a great location to keep things you need such as water and hydrating fluids. They will remain cold. You can also insert cell phones, keys, glasses or other items into the pockets of our kits.

What Kinds of  Therapeutic Garments-Wraps Kits Do We Sell?

You can buy a wide variety of therapeutic garment kits from Kelley’s Therapeutic Garments. They can help with:

• Joint Pain Relief
• Back Pain Relief
• Neck Pain Relief
• Shoulder Pain Relief
• Strained Muscle Pain Relief
• Menstrual Cramp Relief
• Headache Relief
• And more.

We’d love to help you find out how to alleviate your pain. For more information on our therapeutic garments click here.

People, Pets, Therapeutic Garments-Wraps

Wraps For People and Pets

Wraps For People and Pets

Wraps For People and Pets: Our therapeutic  wraps are designed for people and their pets. The  wraps are trimmed with reflective material, so you and your pet can be seen by moving traffic, when out walking at night.

To use as a cooling  wrap simply insert the ice/heat packs into the pockets of the wrap.

You and your pet can now be seen out in public without wearing a medical looking wrap.

When Should Ice Be Used?
For the greatest benefits, use ice after exercise and not before. In the Journal of Sport Rehabilitation (Feb/1994), a study on the ankle was conducted to see if ice should be used on an injury before exercise. The finding showed decreased temperature reduces the joint  sensitivity and thereby alters joint position sense, exposing the joint to possible injury. In conclusion, cooling a body part prior to athletic performance is  “probably a bad idea.”

It was once believed the use of ice was only beneficial in the first 24 hours after an injury. Recent scientific studies have shown the benefits of ice over the long term. During the initial stage of an acute injury (within 24-48 hours), or during the chronic stage (after 48 hours) ice can be very beneficial in promoting wellness.

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People, Therapeutic Garments-Wraps

Therapeutic Kit Configurations

Therapeutic Kit  Configurations:  Prior to using the detachable reconfigurable modular pocket assemblage as a therapeutic device, the user inserts hot or cold packets into the pockets where heat or ice is needed on the body, for use as rehabilitative device, weights are put into the pockets where toning or strengthening is needed for the body. To accommodate the varying sizes of the users and the many configurations additional straps are necessary. The additional straps have a loop and a hook attached to opposite ends of the additional straps.

Configuration Video

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