Exercise & Eat right -- Save our economy?? YES….
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Focus on Your Health:
In it we post health commentary & reviews of books, eBooks, & other things that improve or protect your health or which enable you to live longer, to be more prosperous, & to be more effective.
We do posts on staying healthy; preventing disease; aging more slowly; weight loss; exercise; nutrition; & news in medicine.
Today's post: Friday, 3-30-2007
Exercise & Eat right -- to save our economy?? YES….
Here’s why:
1. People who exercise and eat right and do other things that work to protect their health, like NOT smoking, are less fat & MUCH healthier than people who don’t –
so they tend NOT to get type II diabetes or heart disease or PAD, peripheral artery disease, erectile dysfunction or have strokes & therefore tend NOT to need multiple doctor visits, drugs, surgeries, & early in life funerals -- nor are they likely to get senile.
2. Millions of people in the United States have been doing the exact opposite for many years and many of them are baby boomers just now beginning to cascade in a wave into the ages where people have been following bad health practices begin discovering they have these diseases as a result.
The result of that is massive increases in health care costs (most people are paying more for health coverage AND getting less coverage); and an increasingly large share of our economy is going to health care costs that could have been avoided.
And, that’s not all, people who are doing doctor visits or disabled or senile – or dead – don’t do as much work as healthy and alive people do.
So, our economy is already suffering from more costs & less productive work done.
And, the really bad news is that it will get rapidly worse to a terrifying degree if nothing is done.
But you can fight back. You can follow good health practices yourself. And, you can encourage other people to do so whether they are friends, family, or, if you employ people, they work for you.
If you’ve been reading my posts or following the health news recently, you’ve read about how exercise is in many ways the least used & most effective health practice.
People who exercise think better and even grow new brain cells. They become more stress resistant. And, they are leaner and tend NOT to get type II diabetes or become senile or to develop cardiovascular disease. They even get fewer cancers.
So, if you exercise and encourage everyone you know to do so who isn’t already, more people will exercise and fewer will get avoidable disease; less will be spend on medical costs; or more productive work will be done.
And, that may keep health care costs and lower productive work done from dangerously slowing our economy.
Exercise & Eat right -- to save our economy?? The answer is definitely yes.
However, if you’ve virtually never exercised -- or the person you want to encourage to exercise hasn’t, how do you or that person get into it in a way that fits you or them and gets good results?
What if you had a book with dozens of different kinds of people who got good results from exercise, overcame different kinds of challenges to get into exercise, & where each one shared their exercises & strategies?
That would solve that problem for most people. And, it would give almost anyone enough information and inspiration to get started well.
That resource exists. And, as you can see, I think well of it. So, I’ve become an affiliate to sell it. And, the rest of this post is an email from the author, Jon Benson on today’s topic.
(If you have liked my posts and would like to support this blog and you decide to buy Jon’s book, please do it through the URL listed below.
Thanks.)
http://www.fitover40.com/aff/iehealth
The newspapers all said, "Exercise saves you money!" What are they talking about?
----------------------------------------------
FIT OVER 40
Success For Life e-Zine 3/29/2007
Your Freee Weekly Newsletter from Jon Benson and Fit Over 40
Sent by permission only
----------------------------------------------
The headlines read:
"Health Costs Will Surge Without Better Prevention"
Not "may surge"...WILL surge.
By prevention, they mean exercise and savvy nutrition -- not killing yourself in a gym or on a treadmill and starving.
That never works. I've said that for years. I show you what 'does' work in my book –
(Fit Over 40)
http://www.fitover40.com/aff/iehealth (In case you don't have it yet)
Here are some excerpts from the CDC's latest report.
If you ever thought that exercise and good nutrition was just about health,
hold on to your wallet.
"The cost of caring for aging Americans will add 25 percent to the nation's health care bill by 2030 unless people act now to stay healthy."
That's a direct quote.
This means more taxes for everyone. This means our kids will pay through the nose for our poor habits.
The article continues...
"Currently, 80 percent of Americans 65 or older have at least one chronic disease
that could lead to premature death and disability."
The vast majority of disease is preventable. That's right -- the vast majority. Why?
Because the majority is self-induced.
Most people are sick because they do not take proper care of themselves until it's too late.
The good news is sick people can feel better through exercise and proper eating.
The better news is healthy people can add years to their lives and save billions in
government spending...
...by eating right and exercising.
There's a pattern forming here.
"Given the demographics, the economic impact on healthcare will be enormous,"
said Dr. Richard Murray, a vice president at Merck & Co. Inc., whose foundation funded he study."
"If people adopt healthier lifestyles, they may not develop the expensive, chronic diseases
that raise health costs sharply, such as diabetes, cancer and heart disease."
Wow...the Top 3 killers! All decreased and even stopped in their tracks by something
everyone can do.
Everyone, at any age.
(See) http://www.fitover40.com/aff/iehealth --- > for proof
The report concluded with this statement:
"We have the opportunity for prevention," Merck's Murray said. "We need to be serious
about it."
Listen: exercise and nutrition does not need to be tedious, but it does need to be taken
seriously.
Most people will wait until life takes a bite out of them until they get off their tails and take action.
The shame of that is they are missing out (on) life by missing out on the joy of being fit and healthy. There's nothing like it.
Now you have one more reason to start now: the future of our economy depends on it.
Just remember: it can still be a lot of fun. And it should be. I've shown you 52 people who made it fun, ages 40-80.
Read more about them on my website –
http://www.fitover40.com/aff/iehealth
Have fun, help prevent disease, and save some bucks. That's a win-win-win.
Sincerely,
Jon Benson Creator, Co-Author, "Fit Over 40"
Focus on Your Health:
In it we post health commentary & reviews of books, eBooks, & other things that improve or protect your health or which enable you to live longer, to be more prosperous, & to be more effective.
We do posts on staying healthy; preventing disease; aging more slowly; weight loss; exercise; nutrition; & news in medicine.
Today's post: Friday, 3-30-2007
Exercise & Eat right -- to save our economy?? YES….
Here’s why:
1. People who exercise and eat right and do other things that work to protect their health, like NOT smoking, are less fat & MUCH healthier than people who don’t –
so they tend NOT to get type II diabetes or heart disease or PAD, peripheral artery disease, erectile dysfunction or have strokes & therefore tend NOT to need multiple doctor visits, drugs, surgeries, & early in life funerals -- nor are they likely to get senile.
2. Millions of people in the United States have been doing the exact opposite for many years and many of them are baby boomers just now beginning to cascade in a wave into the ages where people have been following bad health practices begin discovering they have these diseases as a result.
The result of that is massive increases in health care costs (most people are paying more for health coverage AND getting less coverage); and an increasingly large share of our economy is going to health care costs that could have been avoided.
And, that’s not all, people who are doing doctor visits or disabled or senile – or dead – don’t do as much work as healthy and alive people do.
So, our economy is already suffering from more costs & less productive work done.
And, the really bad news is that it will get rapidly worse to a terrifying degree if nothing is done.
But you can fight back. You can follow good health practices yourself. And, you can encourage other people to do so whether they are friends, family, or, if you employ people, they work for you.
If you’ve been reading my posts or following the health news recently, you’ve read about how exercise is in many ways the least used & most effective health practice.
People who exercise think better and even grow new brain cells. They become more stress resistant. And, they are leaner and tend NOT to get type II diabetes or become senile or to develop cardiovascular disease. They even get fewer cancers.
So, if you exercise and encourage everyone you know to do so who isn’t already, more people will exercise and fewer will get avoidable disease; less will be spend on medical costs; or more productive work will be done.
And, that may keep health care costs and lower productive work done from dangerously slowing our economy.
Exercise & Eat right -- to save our economy?? The answer is definitely yes.
However, if you’ve virtually never exercised -- or the person you want to encourage to exercise hasn’t, how do you or that person get into it in a way that fits you or them and gets good results?
What if you had a book with dozens of different kinds of people who got good results from exercise, overcame different kinds of challenges to get into exercise, & where each one shared their exercises & strategies?
That would solve that problem for most people. And, it would give almost anyone enough information and inspiration to get started well.
That resource exists. And, as you can see, I think well of it. So, I’ve become an affiliate to sell it. And, the rest of this post is an email from the author, Jon Benson on today’s topic.
(If you have liked my posts and would like to support this blog and you decide to buy Jon’s book, please do it through the URL listed below.
Thanks.)
http://www.fitover40.com/aff/iehealth
The newspapers all said, "Exercise saves you money!" What are they talking about?
----------------------------------------------
FIT OVER 40
Success For Life e-Zine 3/29/2007
Your Freee Weekly Newsletter from Jon Benson and Fit Over 40
Sent by permission only
----------------------------------------------
The headlines read:
"Health Costs Will Surge Without Better Prevention"
Not "may surge"...WILL surge.
By prevention, they mean exercise and savvy nutrition -- not killing yourself in a gym or on a treadmill and starving.
That never works. I've said that for years. I show you what 'does' work in my book –
(Fit Over 40)
http://www.fitover40.com/aff/iehealth (In case you don't have it yet)
Here are some excerpts from the CDC's latest report.
If you ever thought that exercise and good nutrition was just about health,
hold on to your wallet.
"The cost of caring for aging Americans will add 25 percent to the nation's health care bill by 2030 unless people act now to stay healthy."
That's a direct quote.
This means more taxes for everyone. This means our kids will pay through the nose for our poor habits.
The article continues...
"Currently, 80 percent of Americans 65 or older have at least one chronic disease
that could lead to premature death and disability."
The vast majority of disease is preventable. That's right -- the vast majority. Why?
Because the majority is self-induced.
Most people are sick because they do not take proper care of themselves until it's too late.
The good news is sick people can feel better through exercise and proper eating.
The better news is healthy people can add years to their lives and save billions in
government spending...
...by eating right and exercising.
There's a pattern forming here.
"Given the demographics, the economic impact on healthcare will be enormous,"
said Dr. Richard Murray, a vice president at Merck & Co. Inc., whose foundation funded he study."
"If people adopt healthier lifestyles, they may not develop the expensive, chronic diseases
that raise health costs sharply, such as diabetes, cancer and heart disease."
Wow...the Top 3 killers! All decreased and even stopped in their tracks by something
everyone can do.
Everyone, at any age.
(See) http://www.fitover40.com/aff/iehealth --- > for proof
The report concluded with this statement:
"We have the opportunity for prevention," Merck's Murray said. "We need to be serious
about it."
Listen: exercise and nutrition does not need to be tedious, but it does need to be taken
seriously.
Most people will wait until life takes a bite out of them until they get off their tails and take action.
The shame of that is they are missing out (on) life by missing out on the joy of being fit and healthy. There's nothing like it.
Now you have one more reason to start now: the future of our economy depends on it.
Just remember: it can still be a lot of fun. And it should be. I've shown you 52 people who made it fun, ages 40-80.
Read more about them on my website –
http://www.fitover40.com/aff/iehealth
Have fun, help prevent disease, and save some bucks. That's a win-win-win.
Sincerely,
Jon Benson Creator, Co-Author, "Fit Over 40"
Labels: exercise, health, health care costs, medical costs
posted by David at 1:14 PM
2 Comments:
I agree with the idea that if you eat and exercise right is related to the progress of the economy because of the manpower being healthy can seldom or no sickness can occur. By the way what do you know about vitamin b12 deficiency?
The link takes you to very well done information about B12, what it does for you, what often prevents people from having enough,AND an ad for a fast acting spray.
That way you can get enough B12 even if you are a vegan or your digestion isn't getting it into your blood stream.
That's important for people over 50 and those taking anti acid drugs for reflux (heartburn) or ulcers.
It's also important for type 2 diabetics. The only safe drug I know to lower high blood sugar is metformin. And, metformin also prevents the high blood sugar left over from harming you it was recently discovered!
But, if you take metformin, you would be far safer, if you also used this B12 spray (Dr Al Sears also makes one.)or if you use a chewable or sublingual tablet of 1,000 mcg of B12 once a day.
Why? Here's a quote from the text at Mary's link.
"Studies suggest that 10% to 30% of patients taking Metformin show evidence of reduced vitamin B12 absorption."
I also knew that getting enough B12 helps you have enough energy.
What I did not know until I read the text at this link, is that because B12 helps your body make melatonin, B12 gets part of its energy boost by helping you sleep better!
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