My wife is a health/nutrition fanatic. I'd probably weigh 30 pounds more and be at (greater) risk of heart attack and/or cancer if she hadn't got me eating better when we met in 1991.
She tends toward the "wholistic"/New age/intuitive stuff; not necessarily my thing but she does tend to be right many times. Her latest "thing" comes from Dr. Norm Shealy (normshealy.com) who says that studies show a gigantic increase in longevity and quality of life for people who:
1) exercise 30 min. FIVE days a week
2) eat at least 5 servings of vegetables
3) don't smoke
4) maintain a BMI of 19-24
5) drink plenty of water--1/2 your weight in ounces (e.g, I'm 170 lbs, so I should dring 85 oz of water)
Makes sense to me. I've got 3 taken care of. I hover right at 23.6-24.1 on the BMI so I figure I'm pretty good there although I would like to get firmly and permanently in the 23 range
I do pretty well on the veggies but we used to do a fair amount of juicing (e.g., carrot-apple-kale-ginger) and I want to bring that back into our routine. It's amazing how great those make me feel.
I do need to figure out how to get my 30-min. exercise in more days per week. That "7 best exercises" article mentions walking and that's something that I need to do more of (the dogs'd like it too). The bike needs to get out more. I struggle to get that much exercise in but I need to make it happen.
Ah, well, I'm rambling but I thought I'd share that
Pretty cool but be careful of BMI.I was talking to Ryon about that a while back and that's not the rest indicator of health. IIRC he said % of body fat was better.
ReplyDeleteYes, I agree with that. In my particular situation, I think it's pretty reflective although, Wii fit keeps pushing me to shoot for a BMI of 22 and I think that's too low if I'm going to go for strength training.
ReplyDeleteI added the water thing--I knew there was something I was forgetting...