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February is Heart Health Month
The American Heart Association (AHA)continues to advocate regular exercise
as a means of helping your heart.
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Wear Red
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The AHA Jump Rope For Heart national
fund-raising and education program helps students learn about living a heart-healthy lifestyle. By jumping rope and securing sponsors, students raise money for the fight against heart disease and stroke while learning about the seriousness of these diseases, and the lifelong benefits of physical activity. But jumping rope is not just for kids. If you have strong joints and a strong back, you may benefit from a little rope jumping yourself.  It's said to "burn up to 1000 calories per hour", tone muscles "in the entire body", and optimize "cardiovascular conditioning".
American Heart Association is not the only group interested in rope jumping. According to the
Jump Rope Institute, "Research confirms jump rope can dramatically improve cardiovascular health in only 5-10 minutes, while improving sports skills and concentration and serving as a method for rehabilitating injuries". Check with your personal physician before beginning any new exercise routine.
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Can Exercise Help Combat Cancer?
It's National
Cancer Prevention Month
American Institute for Cancer Research (AICR) "fosters research on diet and cancer prevention and educates the public about the results".
They say that "An unprecedented surge in research on the link between physical activity and cancer risk is transforming efforts to combat the disease".
American Institute for Cancer Research
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"For certain people with stable heart disease, riding an exercise bike 20 minutes every day protected against heart attack better than opening clogged blood vessels with angioplasty and a stent..."
- Hope Health Letter Vol. 24, No. 11 / Circulation, Vol. 109, Pg. 1371) |
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Are you getting enough exercise?
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A Global Study indicates that "measuring the ratio between waist and hip sizes is the best way of checking for the risk of heart attack
in the obese".
Find your
waist-to-hip ratio.
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