Flexibility refers to the ability of your joints to move through a full range of motion. How flexible you are in a particular joint is connected to the muscle length that attaches to that joint and how far that muscle will stretch. Having flexibility in your muscles allows for greater movement around joints. The shorter and less flexible the muscle, the tighter the joint.
What Does Flexibility Have to Do with High Blood Pressure?
Gluten can be found in numerous food products. You must become a savvy shopper. Breads, cereals, pasta, crackers, cakes, cookies, gravies, and sauces may all contain gluten. Gluten may also be used in food additives like malt flavorings and modified food starches. You must read food labels and become familiar with terms that indicate the presence of gluten.
How do I shop for gluten free foods?
1. Increase your life span
Individuals who stay in shape as they age live longer, particularly when evaluating heart disease risk. An Archives of Internal Medicine study showed a workout a day may add ~4 years to your life. A sample from the Framingham Heart Study found individuals who walked 30 minutes 5 days a week lived 1.3 to 1.5 years longer than sedentary individuals. Boost your exercise intensity and studies show you may add 3.5 to 3.7 years to your lifespan.
2. Improve your quality of life as you age
If you’ve ever tried to make a diet or lifestyle change you know it’s not an easy process. You need a compelling reason to keep moving forward.
What is your compelling reason?
There are two different types of motivators – intrinsic and extrinsic.
Continue readingGluten intolerance is a digestive condition triggered when you eat a food containing gluten. The gluten initiates an immune reaction within the small intestine leading to damage to the villi on the surface of the small intestine. This results in a decreased ability to absorb nutrients from foods.
What are signs of gluten intolerance?
The type of heart failure you have may determine the effectiveness of a statin medication.
Types of Heart Failure
Systolic heart failure is when the heart does not contract forcefully enough to pump blood out of the aorta and into circulation.
Diastolic heart failure is when the heart does not relax properly to allow an adequate volume of blood to fill the left ventricle.
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