Taking care of your health. It’s not so hard to do once you put your mind to it. You’ve got to make the commitment. The very most important thing you can do for your health is not to smoke or to quit if you do. It is well known that smoking causes many types of cancer, heart disease, emphysema, just to name a few. Anyone who has ever been a smoker will tell you that quitting is a very hard thing to do. It is a very hard thing to do, but not impossible. There are many resources out there today to help you. There are patches, lozenges, anti depressants, books, websites, telephone hotlines, support groups and many other things. You can quit gradually or cold-turkey. Whatever works best for you, but just quit.
Have you ever bit into a sandwich or a piece of chicken and remarked on how ?dry? it is? Yeah, so have I, yet such a disposition can quickly affect ones waistline in a negative way. We all love mayonnaise, cheese, oil, butter, and cream added generously to our foods, yet sometimes it irks us to notice when our foods lack these delicious ingredients. It is at that realization that we deem a baked potato or a sandwich too ?dry? and unappetizing.
Have you ever heard your heart? I did once when a cardiologist connected the stethoscope to a speaker on his computer and my heart sounded like a monster taking a mud bath! It has just been revealed that the old stethoscope is about to be made redundant! Why? Doctors have found that an Mp3 is much more effective. At a recent conference in Stockholm medics reported that the old stethoscope is quite adequate but the doctors listening to those sounds from your heart and lungs have problems in interpreting them. So, some doctors place a Mp3 device on the patient’s chest and the sound quality is not only much better which means they can better interpret them but also that other doctors can listen in when there is a doubt about the diagnosis.
Did you know that you can lower your cholesterol just by making small changes in the foods you eat? If you can lower your cholesterol level even as little as one percent with dietary changes, you will have succeeded in lowering your risk for heart disease and heart attack by two percent. That’s double the success as a reward for a few simple changes. |