Tag: prevention
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How little is too little exercise?
Guidelines on exercise are there to guide people on how much they need to do to maintain their health. These recommendations are the minimum amount suggested. Because, when it comes to exercise, the more you do, the better it is for your physical and mental wellbeing. But where do these thresholds come from? Can you […]
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The Importance of Lifelong Prevention
My research career began focusing on the benefits of cardiac rehabilitation programs. As I spent more time with the patients and learned more about heart disease, I realized two things. First, many cardiac rehab patients enthusiastically indicate at the end of the program they’re in the best shape of their lives. The second, heart disease […]
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Preventing Diabetes with a Healthy Lifestyle
We’ve made great strides in a lot of diseases. Over the years death rates from heart disease continue to go down. Survival from cancers is going up. But one disease still keeps climbing and that’s diabetes. The prevalence of diabetes is between 7% and 9% in adults. And it increases with age such that 1 […]
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Preventing Dementia with Healthy Living
Diabetes. Heart disease. Stroke. Dementia. Four life-threatening diseases that none of us want. But they also have more in common than just that. They are all related to your lifestyle and prevention is based on a foundation of healthy living. That’s right. Healthy eating and being physically active and can help lower your chances of […]