Healthy Habits for a Fit Family
J. Ron Eaker
Language: English
Pages: 249
ISBN: 0800787935
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
The key to long-term health is to get the entire family involved. Dr. Ron Eaker presents simple, practical, and livable ways to lose fat and achieve lasting health and wellness. Together families can
stop the cycle of family-related weight problems
get fit with uncomplicated, age-specific plans
pursue physical, emotional, and spiritual health
enjoy variety rather than endure restrictions
learn what really works, based on science not fad
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first outing, he ran about a quarter mile from his apartment, got winded, and had to stop and walk back home. He wasn舗t discouraged, though. He persisted and within four months he was regularly running four miles five days a week. In less than a year, Joe had lost nearly seventy pounds and was logging twenty to twenty-five miles a week. Now, five years later, he has maintained his regimen and feels and looks better than he did in his twenties, testimony to the dramatic life changes brought on by
around your middle! If that is the case, then exercise is your best middle-age makeover. For an exercise regimen to be maintained, it must be convenient, reasonably fun, and results-oriented. Most folks have a difficult time continuing anything that doesn舗t produce some positive reinforcement. This is why it is so important to look at the individual goals of each family member and set very specific parameters to measure success. It may be a certain weight or an ability to go a certain distance.
During these years many couples are considering starting or adding to their family. Some couples are concerned about the effect of exercise on their fertility. There are no good studies to date that support the idea that fit individuals have a different fertility rate than their inactive counterparts. The exception is the woman who exercises to the degree that her periods cease. Even in these individuals ovulation can occur, which in turn could lead to pregnancy. This degree of exercise
unhealthy, and cognitively we want to do something about it. Weight loss purveyors are master promoters, and they design products and services that sound appealing but rarely deliver. People who succumb to the diet du jour and the weight loss miracle product of the week are both victims, and at times, willing accomplices. They are victims in that they are being sold a fraudulent, sometimes dangerous package of goods and services; and they are accomplices by not doing their homework and