Achieving Total Wellness Now

We wrote in a blog last year (Cost of Long Life) about how people who live to be 100 cost health insurers only 30% of what people who live to the national average of 78 cost the insurers.  The centenarians are healthy until about 6 months before their deaths while the people who live to the average life span can and often do have years of health problems.

Now a new study in Australia has shown that people who watch an average of 3 hours of TV a day, the national average in Australia, have an 80% higher chance of cardiovascular disease and a 46% higher risk for every other disease.  It is not the TV itself or the radiation it gives off that is the problem.

It is the lack of movement.  That is correct.  It is the lack of muscle contraction during that period of time.

We need muscle activity, that is-contraction, to keep the blood flowing correctly; and the contraction also makes many other lesser known and important things happen as well.

We all watch some TV.  Getting up and moving about a little during commercials (not necessarily to the refrigerator) helps a lot; but it might not be enough.  Here is why!

Many of us also sit in front of computer monitors for hours on end a day.  Then we come home and sit in front of the TV.  To remain healthy it is important to move around and keep the blood flowing on a regular basis.

The length of your life may well depend on it. 

By the way, here in America the national average for time in front of the TV is five (5) hours!

Sincerely,

Joanne & Paul

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