Health Product Guide

Aging creates enough problems without our adding more problems. Body parts start to hurt for seemingly no reason. “My leg hurts just because it is there.”

Many of us get fat as we age. We become less active, but we continue to eat as we did when we were active teenagers. We are no longer growing “up,”  so the food we eat makes us grow “out.” We also eat stuff that is not good for us, and the negative effects accumulate over the years.

However, all is not lost. We can help ourselves by remaining active. Choose an activity that you enjoy and do it regularly. Don’t think of getting exercise; think of having fun. We all need to play and have fun. The more time that we spend at play, the less time that we have to eat.

If you are already active, then do yourself a big favor and avoid becoming sedentary. Avoid fat habits: Watching television, taking the elevator at work, eating snack “foods,” sitting all day at the computer. These things do you little good.

Many people live a long time in great discomfort. I’d like to live a long life, but I want to feel good in old age. I’m convinced that maintaining physical fitness by avoiding fat habits is the way to minimize discomfort in old age.

I had a Tai Chi instructor who was also a ballet dancer. Her face was old and wrinkled, but her body was strong and supple. She seemed to have none of the physical discomforts that many older people have.

NPR recently ran a story on ballet dancer Frederic Franklin who is still dancing at the age of 95. When I heard him speak, he sounded not at all like an old person. He has been dancing since he was eight years old. He loves it and keeps doing it, and it keeps him young.

I don’t know about you, but I want to be young in my old age, and I want to die young.

What if I told you that you should not want to lose weight? What if I told you that you do not want to be skinny? Well, that is what I am telling you.

In the battle with excess fat we have lost our direction. We think that we should be losing weight, but weight is not really the issue. The issue is excess fat. We are too fat. What we should focus on is fitness and fat loss so that we can live well physically for a long time.

In our efforts to lose weight we are becoming fatter.  We must put the focus back on losing fat and becoming more fit.

As we become fatter it becomes harder for us to lose fat because it becomes harder for us to exercise. We don’t enjoy exercise as much as we become fatter.

You do not want to lose weight. You want to lose fat! You do not want to be skinny. You want to be lean! Here is what you need to do to accomplish these goals:

• Eat real food.
• Eat smaller meals, but eat more frequently.
• Avoid soft drinks and packaged juices.
• Do resistance exercises at least 3 days per week.

That’s it! You don’t need to go on special diets.  You don’t have to buy expensive, prepackaged meals. You don’t have to spend a lot of time in the gym.

Here is a free resource to help you in your quest for a lean body.

You know what I like about dumbbells? They are easy to handle and don’t take up a lot of space. You can also do a lot of different exercises with them. Dumbbells are an excellent way to build your own gym. Get some dumbbells, a Swiss ball and a mat, and you have everything you need to give yourself great workouts right in your own home. Dumbbells take up less space than most machines, and they provide you with the advantages of using free weights. They are great for people who have small budgets but still want to get a great workout with free weights. Since you can use them in your home, you save time by not having to drive to the gym.

You can change weight in a flash with Adjustable Dumbbells

Dumbbells have now been improved. A set of dumbbells can take quite a bit of wall space, and replacing weights can be time consuming, but now there are adjustable dumbbells that use only a few square feet. The new adjustable dumbbells let you to change the weight in a flash by moving a pin or turning a dial. Now anyone can use free weights at home. Yea, I love these adjustable dumbbells.