Big idea keep moving

According to an article from the Wall Street Journal, Why Life Expectancy Keeps Rising, http://www.wsj.com/articles/why-life-expectancy-keeps-rising-1421726465 it appears as if we're living 1.5 years longer and we did in 2000. That improvement is over short period of time. Longevity has its limits which is why we should enjoy each day. Improvement seems to come because were better at dealing with heart disease cancer and strokes. Consistent with what I've been reading there is a recommendation to improve muscle strengthening as we get older. Having muscle improves our quality-of-life.

A hot topic in health last couple years has taken a closer look at sedimentary living. Sedimentary living is considered to be the new smoking in changing lifestyles for better health. We can be healthy with fat for a while but overtime obesity will hurt our health. When I think about any bad habit that we may acquire over life the results seem to multiply will age. If we partied hard we were younger we pay the fiddler when we get older. But maybe sedimentary living can be a new enemy for us when we retire. Now granite we may have issues with our work environment being sedimentary. The rocking chair may actually becoming at the wrong time. When get older we need to keep moving. 

So here we are, an article, Sedimentary Behavior Trumps Fat as a Killer http://www.chicagotribune.com/la-sci-sn-sedentary-behavior-fat-death-20150115-story.html by Melissa Healy from the Chicago Tribune, where she sites evidence that really affects obese people but also can have a deadly effect on thin people. So if your waistline is under 40 for man or 35 for a woman don't think you're immune if you're sedimentary. We were created to move Leslie Sansone often says. For me I have to eat to live and be more effective losing weight. 

http://www.chicagotribune.com/la-sci-sn-sedentary-behavior-fat-death-20150115-story.html

All of us need to move when we are 50s and older. It is real easy to encounter problems that can slow us down. If aging is the reason we're slowing down, what I find interesting is as we adapt how reasonable new goals can be established. Walking for short periods throughout the day can I have a major impact on her health. Another strategy if we can walk 20 minutes a day it can make all the difference in the world. Strength training can be real simple using household products to exercise all parts of our body. Getting dumbbells, resistance bands and I've talked about suspension training are always we can adapt strength training. Doing push-ups off the counter, or even off-the-wall standing straight can offer resistance that helps us. The further you move your feet back the more resistant sure you will have. If you have a walker, you can do squats from a comfortable chair in the support of your walker. 

For senior fitness, you have your doctor, and if you have need of a physical therapist your doctor will work with you on that. There are a lot of good websites that have good information about senior fitness. You can go to your library and there are resources there. I know what the local senior citizens Center there is support. I will keep throwing out a lot of ideas, but you and your doctor have to decide what's right for you. The main thing I am saying there are a lots of ways to put moving into your life. Keep walking