Healthy Aging Classes

Most people don’t realize that after age 40 the body’s clock is set up to promote decline, decay, and deterioration. Genetically-timed events trigger changes to your metabolism that accelerate the aging process, thereby increasing the risk of cancer, heart disease and many other degenerative diseases. It seems hard to believe that your body would want to set you up for a number of life threatening diseases; but it does.

Aging and Nutrition

As we age, we lose lean body mass and bone density, with this loss we lose body water. Body fat increases with age because we eat too many calories. Digestive secretion diminish and do not absorb nutrients from food as much as before. Vitamins and supplements maybe the only way to replenish deficit of nutrients in the aged bodies. By having a basic idea how many vitamins and minerals body needs will help to keep body healthy and prevent overdosing and malnutrition.

Fitness and Exercise Design

The holistic perspective on health and healing is a complex connection between mind, body, and spirit. An individuals who are using holistic approaches sometimes overlook the benefits of fitness. Some reasons could be lack of time, knowledge, embarrassment, age, mobility. Many trail studies show that physical activity can improve or lead to positive health effects. For example, physical activity is correlated with a reduced probability of developing diabetes and certain forms of cancer, enhance cardio respiratory health, and reduce the risk of depression and cognitive decline. Physical professionals can help you with fitness and exercise assessments and schedules.

Here are some examples of individuals assessment matrix.

Useful Websites

This CDC website is help you on variety of information and different topics, such as healthy brain, preventive services, emergency preparedness, advance care planning for chronic diseases. Also, website includes data and statistics, news and press release.

To find more information on CDC Healthy Aging go here: CDC Healthy Aging

National Institute of Health (NIH) have a good information and tips on healthy aging. Website includes videos, stories, tips, and training tools. In addition, you can search healthy topics from A to Z.

To find more information on NIH go here: Senior Health


National Consul on Aging (NCOA) provides information on public policy, training, community education, and prevention. NCOA website have a good resources on chronic diseases, falls, physical activity, behavior health, and self-management.

To find more information on NCOA go here: Center for Healthy Aging

Eating Well as You Age

As we age our bodies metabolism slows down, we start noticing that we have belly fat more than usual. At 40, maybe it is not a big deal and we keep continue to eat unhealthy, until some years later we realize that our knees hurts from exes body mass and we start to shop for bigger dress sizes. This article will help you to nourish your body, explain what healthy eating means, and what cause unhealthy diet.

This article is good for my future goal because healthy diet can help to slow aging process. By helping people to chose healthier food can prolong quality of life. 

 

The article can be found here: Eating Well as You Age   

How to Sleep Well as You Age

Sleeping is an important part of our lives and no matter how old you are sleeping is essential for your health. This article will help you to overcome age-related sleep problems and may prevent mental diseases. Tips in this article will help you to change some negative behaviors and will lead you to a good night rest.

For my professional goal the article is useful to me because I have to know why people after age of 50, have problem to sleep. To help them to change behavior and establish routines, tips in this article will be handy to me.

The article can be found here: How to Sleep Well as You Age  

Stress Symptomes, Signs, and Causes

We are always overlooking the firs signs of stress but when we get sick we are still wondering, how. Sometimes stress transforms into chronic illness that affect mental and emotional state of human-being. By recognizing symptoms, we can prevent dementia, Alzheimer's, depression, and even suicide. This article will help you to identify if  your body is stressed and provide information on how to manage stress also.

This article will be useful for my profession because I want to teach people how to recognize and manage stress before they enter into senior age. By introducing holistic approaches that help to reduce stress, to middle age people, will help them to experience better and more active senior's life.

The article you can find here: Stress Symptoms, Signs, and Causes