Wishing you weren’t having a birthday again this year? Humans have been looking for the “Fountain of Youth” for centuries. What we really want is to look and feel younger than our age. It takes some self discipline but it can be a reality. Developing a therapeutic lifestyle is the first step. A therapeutic lifestyle might be defined as making daily choices that will enhance your health and prevent disease. In fact the National Institute of Health (NIH) recommends lifestyle changes as the most important and cost-effective way to lower cholesterol. Lifestyle changes are now recommended as the first line of therapy for many chronic diseases.
Chronic diseases last for years and often start long before symptoms begin- conditions like heart disease, stroke, cancer, diabetes and arthritis. According to the Centers for Disease Control, they are the mostcostly and preventable health problems in the US. The good news is chronic diseases can be prevented and even reversed by making lifestyle changes, including exercise and diet. “I knew that,” you say. “How basic can you get?” Here are a few statistics from the CDC: (more…)
