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Have you ever tried a fad diet to lose weight? Here’s why it didn’t work – Salon
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Its tempting to think that, by rearranging your entire diet, you could quickly lose weight and keep it off. All you need to do is eat right for your blood type, or give up carbs, or eat like a Paleolithic human, or eat only raw foods, and so on, and you will be thin before you know it. At least, thats what fad diets promise.
Melinda Hemmelgarn, a Registered Dietitian and investigative nutritionist, who hosts Food Sleuth Radio, distinguishes between fad diets and what she calls popular diets. A fad diet generally promises quick and easy weight loss but comes up short on quality. They may lack certain nutrients, and could even be dangerous. She adds that they are notoriously difficult to follow.
She specifies that the Mediterranean and DASH diets are not fads. They are both popular but they are also effective for maintaining health for the general population and relatively easy to follow if you have access to healthy foods. The Mediterranean diet calls for eating like people who live in the Mediterranean high in vegetables and olive oil and only moderate in animal protein, and the DASH diet stands for Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension. It calls for a low sodium diet with plenty of fresh fruits and vegetables and low fat dairy plus moderate amounts of whole grains, fish, poultry, and nuts.
When U.S. News and World Reports asked health experts to rank 38 different diets overall, DASH and Mediterranean came in first and second, respectively. The experts considered whether they were easy to follow, nutritious, safe, effective for weight loss and protective against diabetes and heart disease.
A number of well known fad diets fared poorly in the rankings: Slim Fast (#20), South Beach (#24), Glycemic Index Diet (#25), The Zone (#25), Medifast (#29), Raw Food (#32), Atkins (#35), and Paleo (#36).
While a few of those that did poorly overall actually ranked well for promoting weight loss (raw food ranked fifth and Atkins came in twelfth), the Paleo diet came in dead last for weight loss. If that isnt enough bad news about the Paleo diet, archaeological scientist Christina Warinner, says that the foods called for by the diet are not even what ancient human ancestors actually ate.
Hemmelgarn adds that some diets can be clinically indicated for certain patients but may be fad diets if others adopt them. She includes gluten-free in this category. For many, eschewing gluten is no fad. If you have celiac disease, an autoimmune disease in which you become ill from eating even the smallest amount of gluten, a protein found in wheat and some other grains, going gluten-free is an important matter of staying healthy. But if your body tolerates gluten just fine and you decide to give it up, that can be a fad.
The same can be said for the ketogenic diet, a low carb diet that calls for eating whole foods and avoiding processed foods. The name ketogenic refers to ketosis. Normally, your body gets its fuel by turning the carbohydrates you eat into glycogen and using glycogen as its energy source. If you do not eat carbs, then your body must turn elsewhere for fuel. It turns fat into molecules called ketones and the ketones serve as the bodys fuel. When your body does this, it is in ketosis.
By avoiding carbohydrates in the diet, people on the ketogenic diet cause their bodies to go into ketosis. While this sounds like a weight loss scheme, the ketogenic diet is actually often recommended to epilepsy patients to help manage their epilepsy. According to Hemmelgarn, ketogenic diets should be followed under the guidance of a Registered Dietitian who is proficient in working with them. They are hard to follow. They are generally effective in weight loss, but most people who follow these kinds of diets generally gain the weight back once they start eating higher carbohydrate levels.
Registered Dietitian Nutritionist Amanda Bullat adds that while shed support any patient following a ketogenic diet for clinically indicated reasons, research is not conclusive about whether it is a good diet if your only goal is weight loss. In particular, she worries that a high protein, high fat diet could be taxing to the kidneys and liver.
Both the ketogenic and the paleo diets call for eliminating all grains and legumes from the diet. Bullat comments on this, saying, for myself and my clients, when we cut a carbohydrate coming from whole grains and legumes pretty significantly, we start having some mood issues and start being kind of lethargic. Its not to say that I think people should necessarily eat as much bread and pasta as they want, she qualifies. Having small amounts of whole grains, having small amounts of legumes, youre getting your nutrients from those whole foods and then youre not having to be on a B complex vitamin.
While some followers of diets that eliminate whole grains and legumes point out that these foods contain anti-nutrients (chemicals that interfere with the absorption of nutrients), Bullat recommends soaking, sprouting, or fermenting as methods of eliminating the anti-nutrients from grains and legumes.
But Bullat takes an even larger perspective of fad diets. Rather than nitpicking the particular details of each individual diet, she questions the idea of going on a diet in the first place. Bullat approaches nutrition from a Health At Every Size perspective. That means turning the idea of diets on its head. If youve tried ten diets to lose weight and you have not lost weight, you might say, I failed. The Health At Every Size approach says that the dieter did not fail; the diets failed.
Bullat explains, saying The science shows that across the board, no matter what diet people are put on in the study, in the long term, that way of eating will not help them promote weight loss. If you try a diet and fail to lose weight, or lose weight and then gain it back, the studies show that youre not the only one. Therefore that shows that the physiology aspect of the diet shows that its not possible to lose the weight off of that diet.
Using this approach, analyzing individual fad diets becomes more or less meaningless. Bullat coaches patients to be intuitive eaters who can listen to their bodies cues so that they eat when they are hungry and stop when they are full, and by eating foods that make their bodies feel healthy. This is basically the exact opposite of following a complicated diet plan that promises weight loss while attempting to ignore your bodys own signals.
In other words, no matter how much we might wish it, theres no magic bullet to quickly and easily lose weight and keep it off but there are ways to adopt new long term dietary habits to promote health and weight loss, whether it is through intuitive eating or a more prescriptive diet plan such as the Mediterranean diet.
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Olive Oil May Protect Our Brain – Voice of America
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From VOA Learning English, this is the Health & Lifestyle report.
The health value of a Mediterranean diet is widely known. Fruits, vegetables and fish are main foods in this diet.
Extra-virgin olive oil is also a major part of the Mediterranean diet. And new research shows that it may protect the brain from losing its ability to work properly.
Researchers at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania say extra-virgin olive oil "protects memory and learning ability." Extra-virgin olive oil, also called EVOO, can reduce the formation of poisons in the brain that are signs of Alzheimer's disease.
But how does it do it?
Researchers say olive oil reduces inflammation in the brain. It also activates a cleaning process. This process is called autophagy.
Autophagy is when cells break down waste and poisons found between cells and remove them from the body.
There are two substances in the brain most closely linked to memory loss in Alzheimer's patients: amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary, or tau tangles.
What are amyloid plaques and tau tangles?
For definitions of both amyloid plaque and tau tangle, we go to experts at New Jerseys Rutgers University and the U.S.-based Alzheimer's Organization.
Amyloid is a protein normally found throughout the body.
However, the experts say when amyloid grows abnormally it creates a sticky build-up called plaque outside the nerve cells, or neurons. This abnormal amyloid plaque slowly kills the cells.
Tau proteins are common in the central nervous system.
Tangles form inside dying neurons. Tangles are twisted fibers of tau protein.
Experts from both organizations explain that, normally, every neuron contains long fibers made of protein. These proteins hold the neuron in its proper shape. They also help to transport nutrients within the neuron.
However, in brains with Alzheimer's disease, these fibers begin to tangle. This causes the neuron to lose its shape. The neuron also becomes unable to transport nutrients. Over time, it dies.
The recent Temple University study
Domenico Pratic is the lead researcher of the Temple University study.
He says, "brain cells from mice fed diets enriched with extra-virgin olive oil had higher levels of autophagy" and lower levels of the poisons -- the amyloid plaques and tau tangles.
For their study, the researchers looked at mice that had three traits of Alzheimer's: memory loss, amyloid plaques, and tau tangles.
They put the mice into two groups. Researchers gave one group a diet with extra-virgin olive oil. They gave the other group a diet without EVOO.
The olive oil was given to the mice when they were only six months old. This was before any symptoms of Alzheimer's had set in. At age 9 months and 12 months, the mice in the olive oil group performed considerably better on tasks that tested the mice's memory and learning ability.
And, the scientists reported differences in the brain tissues of the two groups.
The brains of the olive oil group showed a great increase in nerve-cell autophagy. This cell-cleaning process is responsible for the lower levels of the poisons we talked about earlier -- the amyloid plaques and tau tangles.
Pratic says that "one thing that stood out immediately was" the strength of the synapses.
A synapse is the connection between neurons. It is how they communicate. The synapses in the mice on the EVOO diet were stronger than those in the other group.
What's next for these researchers?
The researchers say their next step is to see what happens to mice who are given olive oil at 12 months. At that time, they will have already begun to show signs of dementia.
Pratic says that patients usually have dementia when they visit a doctor to investigate signs of the disease. He says the researchers "want to know whether olive oil added at a later time in the diet can stop or reverse the disease."
The researchers published their findings online in the Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology.
And thats the Health & Lifestyle report.
Im Anna Matteo.
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inflammation n. a condition in which a part of your body becomes red, swollen, and painful
autophagy n. digestion of cellular constituents by enzymes of the same cell
symptom n. a change in the body or mind which indicates that a disease is present
enriched v. to improve the quality of (something) : to make (something) better
trait n. a quality that makes one person or thing different from another
fiber n. a long, thin piece of material that forms a type of tissue in your body
tangle n. a twisted knot of hair, thread, etc.
stood out phrasal verb : to be easily seen or noticed
dementia n. medical : a mental illness that causes someone to be unable to think clearly or to understand what is real and what is not real
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Exercise in early life has long-lasting benefits – Medical Xpress
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Exercise in early life counteracts some of the damaging programming effects of a high-fat diet, a new Auckland study shows.
The researchers, from the Liggins Institute at the University of Auckland, found that bone retains a "memory" of exercise's effects long after the exercise is ceased, and this bone memory continues to change the way bodies metabolise a high-fat diet.
The research team compared the bone health and metabolism of rats across different diet and exercise conditions, zeroing in on messenger molecules that signal the activity of genes in bone marrow. Rats were either given a high-fat diet and a wheel for extra exercise in their cage, a high-fat diet but no wheel, or a regular diet and no wheel.
In the rats given a high-fat diet and an exercise wheel, the early extra physical activity caused inflammation-linked genes to be turned down.
High-fat diets early in life are known to turn up, or increase the activity of other genes that cause inflammation. Inflammation is the body's natural self-protective response to acute infection or injury, but the ongoing, low-grade inflammation linked to high-fat diets can harm cells and tissues and raise the risk of obesity, heart disease, cancer and other diseases.
Exercise also altered the way the rats' bones metabolised energy from food, changing energy pathways that disrupt the body's response to a high-calorie diet.
"What was remarkable was that these changes lasted long after the rats stopped doing that extra exercise into their mid-life," says Dr Justin O'Sullivan, a molecular geneticist at the Institute.
"The bone marrow carried a 'memory' of the effects of exercise. This is the first demonstration of a long-lasting effect of exercise past puberty.
"The rats still got fat, but that early extra exercise basically set them up so that even though they put on weight they didn't have the same profile of negative effects that is common with a high fat diet."
Dr O'Sullivan says this may help scientists understand why, even though obesity and diabetes are often linked, some people with obesity do not develop diabetes.
"It also strongly emphasises the health benefits of exercise for children."
Dr' O'Sullivan's co-investigators were PhD student Dharani Sontam, Professor Mark Vickers, and Professor Elwyn Firth, all from the Liggins Institute.
With rising rates of overweight and obesity in children, it is important to understand the effects of these conditions on bone health, says Professor Vickers, an obesity specialist.
"Obesity is governed by many genes. This work highlights the utility of small animal models in teasing out gene-environment interactions in health and disease."
Professor Firth, who studies bone development, explains that childhood and adolescence are periods of rapid bone growth.
"If you reach optimal bone mass early in life, you're less likely to suffer from broken bones or other bone-related problems as an adult. Load-bearing from exercise and higher bodyweight is good for growing bones, but this and other evidence shows that if the extra weight comes from higher body fat mass, bone development may be subnormal," he says.
"Bone metabolism strongly influences energy metabolism in the body, and metabolism - what you do with energy from diet is the central crux of why some children and adults become obese."
The team hopes to repeat the experiment to see if the changes persist into old age, and if varying the exercise when it begins, how much the rats do, and how long they do it for could alter other genes, affecting other aspects of fat metabolism beneficially.
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Counting Calories May Help Mitigate Skin Damage From Sun Exposure – Medical News Bulletin
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Skin damage due to UV exposure from the sun is a widely known cause of skin aging and increased risk of skin cancer. In a recent study, the authors investigate whether diet can influence the damage caused by UV exposure.
Exposure to UV rays from sunlight causes the skin to generate greater amounts of free radicals that lead to cell damage and increase the risk of skin cancer. Although avoiding sunlight is the best way to prevent visible aging and cancer due to damaging UV rays, another factor contributing to the risk of skin cancer is diet. In a recent study published in the Journal of American Medical Association Facial Plastic Surgery, the authors investigate how normal, calorie-restricted and obesity diets affect the response of skin to UV irradiation in a hairless mouse model.
Three test groups were established: a control group with a healthy diet; a calorie-rich (obesity) diet group; and a calorie-restricted diet group. Half of the mice in each group were exposed to a controlled amount of UV radiation 3 times a week for 10 weeks. After 10 weeks, all test groups were humanely sacrificed and skin samples were collected. Analysis of the skin samples looked for specific immune responses, skin thickness, collagen health, elasticity and even changes in the number of wrinkles.
As expected, the results showed that with a calorie-restricted diet, mice had a modest decrease in body weight after UV exposure, which contrasted with the calorie-rich diet that resulted in increased body weight. Interestingly, UV exposure with a calorie-rich diet also resulted in the thickening of the skin, increased formation of wrinkles, enlargement of elastic fibers, and increased immune responses. Most notably, a calorie-rich diet was associated with UV-related skin thickening, indicating that increasing calories may lead to increased cell reproduction too much of which can lead to cancerous growths. Alternatively, calorie-restricted mice were less prone to the production of wrinkles. Not all UV-induced skin changes were related to diet, however. For example, the amount of collagen produced between all groups was similar regardless of diet.
The authors conclude that a calorie-restricted diet in the mice helped contribute to cellular factors that lessened the effects of UV radiation. However, since this work was done in a mouse model, it is unknown if the results are transferable to humans. In any case, it appears that in the mice an opulent diet had negative consequences.
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DELPHOS A Delphos couple were injured in a home invasion assault that occurred Saturday morning.
David and Dianna Allemeier of 209 S. Pierce St. in Delphos were both taken to St. Ritas Medical Center in Lima for treatment of injuries received when a man gained entry to their home and reportedly assaulted them.
Delphos Police were first called out at 6:05 a.m. Saturday on a report of a suspicious person in the 300 block of Jackson Street who was knocking on doors and then walking away. However, while en route to that call, officers were informed that a man had been injured and was bleeding in the 200 block of Pierce Street.
When officers arrived on the scene, they found Allemeier bleeding from an injury to his neck. The Delphos resident said he received the injury from a man who had gained entry into his home.
Officers approached the residence and found the back door unlocked and a lot of blood at the scene. The home was secured and a K-9 and Crime Scene Unit sought from the Allen County Sheriffs Office.
Allemeier then said his wife was still in the house and officers then entered and found Mrs. Allemeier, who was also injured, in the bedroom area of the residence.
After the Allemeiers were transported to the hospital, a K-9 search was made of the area, and the house was processed by an Allen County sheriffs deputy.
No information was released on whether items were taken from the Allemeier house.
Police are currently seeking a young, skinny white male with black hair, possibly wearing cutoff shorts. Anyone with information is asked to contact the Delphos Police Department or Allen County Sheriffs Office.
The investigation is continuing, with no further information forthcoming at this time.
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DELPHOS A Delphos couple were injured in a home invasion assault that occurred Saturday morning.
David and Dianna Allemeier of 209 S. Pierce St. in Delphos were both taken to St. Ritas Medical Center in Lima for treatment of injuries received when a man gained entry to their home and reportedly assaulted them.
Delphos Police were first called out at 6:05 a.m. Saturday on a report of a suspicious person in the 300 block of Jackson Street who was knocking on doors and then walking away. However, while en route to that call, officers were informed that a man had been injured and was bleeding in the 200 block of Pierce Street.
When officers arrived on the scene, they found Allemeier bleeding from an injury to his neck. The Delphos resident said he received the injury from a man who had gained entry into his home.
Officers approached the residence and found the back door unlocked and a lot of blood at the scene. The home was secured and a K-9 and Crime Scene Unit sought from the Allen County Sheriffs Office.
Allemeier then said his wife was still in the house and officers then entered and found Mrs. Allemeier, who was also injured, in the bedroom area of the residence.
After the Allemeiers were transported to the hospital, a K-9 search was made of the area, and the house was processed by an Allen County sheriffs deputy.
No information was released on whether items were taken from the Allemeier house.
Police are currently seeking a young, skinny white male with black hair, possibly wearing cutoff shorts. Anyone with information is asked to contact the Delphos Police Department or Allen County Sheriffs Office.
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By Robin Williams Adams Your Health correspondent
LAKELAND A sizeable contingent of people turn to instructor-led exercise programs like Zumba and tai chi to get their bodies in better shape and have fun along the way.
I do it twice a week and I love it, said Carol Thormahlen, who gets Zumba training. It gets you moving and its good for your heart.
Susan and Charlie Walsh attend tai chi classes two mornings a week.
When we started, I had kinks here and there, recalled Charlie Walsh, adding I dont have them anymore. We have fun, too.
Despite the deceptively slower pace of tai chi, the movements arent as simple as they look.
Its not easy, said Susan Walsh. It involves the mind telling the body what to do.
Most people who take up exercise after having been inactive are familiar with the advice to check with their primary care doctor.
They may not have heard the suggestion by some physical therapists to get an assessment of how they move and what their bodies are ready to handle.
Physical therapists at Bartow Regional Medical Center are among those promoting the merits of getting a functional movement assessment if youre taking part in or starting an exercise program or sport.
We offer assessments that can give you a good idea of what you need to do to stay active and fit, said Tyler Love, who has a doctorate in physical therapy.We can do it on a 14-year-old or an 85-year-old.
Having an assessment before you experience pain reduces the risk of injuries occurring because parts of your body dont function well, said Jim Goodwin, manager of BRMCs outpatient rehabilitation program.
Emphasis on preventing injuries reflects a trend espoused by the American Physical Therapy Association in Alexandria, Va., which suggests annual checkups by a physical therapist.
The APTA, as in much of medicine, is trying to look more upstream and think about primary prevention and wellness, said Jennifer Gamboa of Body Dynamics in Falls Church, Va., who has a doctorate in physical therapy. Its about how all the systems work together, including the movement system.
Movement screening looks at primary movement patterns that everyone, especially young athletes, should be able to do, said Gamboa, who evaluates movement and mobility as part of her practice.
BRMC formed an alliance this spring with the girls soccer program at Bartow High School.
They gave the female athletes functional movement assessments, a process that includes having them do movements like squats (involving muscles used in sitting down), straight leg raises and hip hinge movements (as when you pick something up off the floor).
The assessment is 60 to 90 minutes of one-on-one time with a physical therapist and includes recommended exercises.
Of 20 or so soccer players assessed, four or five had movement issues raising red flags that needed follow-up sessions for individual exercise programs they can do on their own, said Thomas Bell, another BRMC physical therapist with a doctorate.
For those in better shape, Love went to the teams off-season strength conditioning class and counseled them in techniques like warm-up breathing exercises.
I was on board because as a coach, in trying to help your team, reducing injury is beneficial, said Eina Dorado, head girls soccer coach at Bartow High School.
Were in the beginning stages with this sort of program, working with the physical therapists. Im hoping the girls will be better equipped, with the exercises they can do, and be more mindful of their body positioning.
The team is implementing breathing exercises the physical therapists showed them, she said, explaining that the exercises help set young athletes spines in proper alignment to prepare them for weight lifting.
When movement assessments identify weaknesses in individual players, she said, coaches can modify their strength-conditioning training until players have the proper form and strength to execute prescribed training exercises.
Female athletes have a much higher rate of non-contact injuries of the ACL, anterior cruciate ligament, than male athletes do.
Theresa Trentham, physical therapy assistant student at Polk State College, played on the George Jenkins High School soccer team and is an avid runner.
Im a runner so my legs override everything else, the Lakeland resident said.
While training at Bartow Regional, she got a functional movement assessment and wasnt surprised to learn she had poor abdominal core control. Shes now incorporated a program of core work, squats and stretching in her daily routine.
By doing that, she said, she expects to be running longer and avoid pain.
Whatever the weak link is in the chain is where you end up seeing the pain, Bell said.
Functional movement assessments also are done for people who have pain. Pain can limit what people do and leads to poor movement patterns as people try to reduce or work around the pain.
Chronic illnesses can be triggered by lack of physical activity, Gamboa said, and lack of physical activity often is due to past pain.
Goodwin, who had a torn meniscus, said he got an assessment and a prescribed exercise program when problems continued after his surgery in July 2014. Doing the exercises for 10-15 minutes most days helped him regain a fuller range of motion and stopped him from limping, he said.
Having the assessment costs $90. Follow-up sessions are about $60, he said.
Robin Williams Adams can be reached at robinwadams99@yahoo.com.
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Genesis Health Clubs Launches Dozens of Revamped Group Exercise Classes – EconoTimes
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Wichita, KAN., July 10, 2017 -- Genesis Health Clubs announced plans today to launch a huge slate of dozens of revamped group fitness classes, featuring new music, routines and added timeslots. The new classes begin on July 15th and will continue weekly.
Justen Maron, Vice President of Group Fitness commented: Group Exercise keeps people motivated and engaged and frankly, its the most fun way to exercise. What better way to take care of your health than with a classroom filled with friends and a supportive, energetic instructor leading the way?
Maron continued: Fitness is constantly evolving, and we are partnered with some of the best in the industry to stay on top of the trends. Yoga and Cycling are staples, but today, members demand movement training, HIIT workouts, and current trends like Barre. We stay at the front of pack by regularly updating our programs.
Its a massive undertaking, but were refreshing everything: Yoga, Pilates, Zumba, Group Power, Group Ride, Group Centergy, Group Blast, Group Fight I could go on. Theyre all getting an update and theyre all better than ever. More options, more variety, more of the group exercise thats sweeping the nation right now with its popularity.
All of Genesis Health Clubs 41 clubs will feature the new and revamped classes. Great care is being taken to make sure that all members can be accommodated. Maron was quick to reassure: When new classes launch, it is one of the busiest times for our clubs and the Group Exercise department, in particular. We want to make sure that everyone who wants to take one of these classes has an opportunity, so weve carefully calibrated our schedule to eliminate bottlenecks. These are very popular classes, though, so Id advise anyone who is interested to sign up or show up early!
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The American population is undergoing a dramatic shift. The nation is growing older.
Soon, we will have more older people than children and more people at extreme old age than ever before.
As both the proportion of older people and the length of life increase throughout the world, key questions arise. Will population aging be accompanied by a longer period of good health, a sustained sense of well-being, and extended periods of social engagement and productivity? Or will it be associated with more illness, disability, and dependency?
The benefits that seniors can gain from being physically active are well documented and extensive. As well as reducing the risk of chronic disease, being physically active can help seniors to strengthen bones and muscles, improve their ability to do daily activities, prevent falls, reduce the risk of depression, control weight, and increase life expectancy.
Women can increase bone density, men can improve their performance in leisure activities such as golf and tennis, and we all improve our sexual health (shhhh ... don't tell the 20-somethings we're still active; let it be a surprise.)
To combat the negative effects of a sedentary lifestyle and the psychosocial issues that often accompany aging, fitness-based wellness programs developed for seniors are offered through certain health plans. Group exercise classes are perfect for older adults looking to improve their strength for daily activities.
Even better, seniors may already qualify for a free membership if their health plan includes Silver Sneakers or Silver and Fit.
Local gyms and the South Iredell Senior Center provide group classes for the Mooresville senior community. Certified personal trainers are skilled at guiding seniors through exercises devised to increase strength, balance, range of motion, endurance and physical skills required for daily living. At Golds Gym in Mooresville, music from the 1950s helps to keep everyone motivated.
If youre part of Americas older population, dont let your age dictate your health. Check out one of the numerous fitness classes that are available to you here in Mooresville.
Tonda Wynn is a Certified Personal Trainer and Fitness Consultant at Golds Gym in Mooresville. Reach her at 704-787-3935 or ggtwynn@gmail.com. For more information about Silver Sneakers & Silver Fit, contact Terri Kindley, Certified Group Exercise Trainer at 704-408-6399 or ggtkindley@gmail.com.
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Give 65 hoping donors step up to keep senior programs funded – KCRG
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CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG TV9)- Supporters of programs to keep area seniors active hope donors step up beginning Tuesday morning to help replace some lost funding.
The Witwer Healthy Aging Program supports activities for those 65 and older at 13 different sites in the Cedar Rapids metro area. But supporters say some of the programs face cutbacks in donor dollars cant be found.
Karen Huber, franchise owner of Home Instead Senior Care, is organizing the online fundraising effort called Give 65. It refers to 65 hours of donation time beginning at 7:00 a.m. Tuesday morning. The goal is to raise $10,000.
The goal is to eventually open up a senior center. We havent had one since the floods took it away in 2008. Down the road, that is our big goal. But right now we want to keep programs going and keep seniors socially involved, she said.
Huber said the national foundation for the Home Instead franchise chain has pledged $5,000 to match whatever local donors raise.
She said donors can go to http://www.give65.org to pledge money to support social services for seniors in the metro area.
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