Posts Tagged ‘Exercise’

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Wednesday, April 14th, 2010

Get Started in a Healthy Lifestyle

     How can you adopt the healthy lifestyle you know will help you improve your quality of life and increase your longevity?  First of all, surround yourself with health-conscious media and people. Subscribe to blogs on women’s health and diet, get a magazine subscription to your favorite fitness and health magazines, and ask your active friends if you can join them in their daily walks. You will find that the more data you learn and the more you surround yourself with positive examples of healthy women, the easier it will be for you to adopt a healthy lifestyle of your own.

     You don’t have to start putting sprouts on everything you eat or hit the gym for hour-long workouts every day. The changes you make should be gradual. Get started with one walk a week if you have to, slowly but surely increasing the frequency and speed of your walks. Start collecting healthy, yummy recipes or substituting certain items in your diet for healthier alternatives. For example, prepare turkey burgers instead of beef patties. In time, you’ll find that your diet will be largely changed for the better.

     By following these tips and changing your lifestyle for the better, you can help revert the alarming health statistics for U.S. women and improve the quality of life in the present, as well as in your later years!

Tina Turbin

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Wednesday, April 7th, 2010

The Top Women’s Health Concerns and How to Prevent Them

In 2004, the U.S. Center for Disease Control published the top ten leading causes of death in females. As a woman who cares immensely about health issues, especially among women and children, I’m bringing you the top three health concerns. The good news is that many are preventable with a healthy, active lifestyle. So, what are the major risks for women?

The first major risk to women’s health is heart disease, which is responsible for 27.2% of deaths in females. Next up is cancer, which is responsible for 22.0% of deaths in women.     Stroke is responsible for 7.5% of deaths in females. Stroke is often associated with men, but it actually kills more women than men each year.

Devastating health conditions seem to be diagnosed suddenly, but in actual fact, women determine their later-life health early on with the habits and lifestyle they choose for themselves in terms of diet, exercise, and stress. If you’re doing everything possible to ensure a healthy future, keep it up! For those of you who need improvement in their lifestyle, the time to make that change is now!

Tina Turbin

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Wednesday, January 20th, 2010

Walk for Exercise

If you don’t want to hit the gym or purchase equipment for your home, walking is the easiest low-impact exercise. The key to this particular exercise is to challenge yourself to walk faster and faster and also by moving your arms more exaggeratedly as you go. You can also do interval training to increase the challenge, which proves to be an effective calorie burner. This can be done by walking as fast as you can for one minute followed by two minutes of a slower pace for recovery, back and forth, for at least thirty minutes total.

Tina Turbin

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