A lot of your ways of life in your 40’s can be well entrenched by now, be they good or bad. Your employment probably comes with increased responsibilities, the household and family costs are daunting and the years somehow evapourate. Your time is not your own and you seem to not have enough time to rest let alone exercise. Weight gain may be an issue.

Some health issues have started to emerge.

Your body can be on a slippery slide, is it a case of too late? Am l ageing well?

The answer is if you practice wellness care through healthy medicine approaches you can make big differences. Read on.

Interesting

About 80% of people who develop type 2 diabetes are classified as obese. Historically it was called adult-onset diabetes because typically it occurred in people over 40 years of age. Due to the explosion in numbers of children with obesity and inactivity it is now being diagnosed in much younger people as well. A sad reflection on our society and parenting.

Health Tips

Exercise Levels

Now is not the time to panic. If you have decided to do some exercise then take it easy. You have a long time to get fit. It is far better to do moderate exercise for a lifetime instead of training like a maniac for 6 weeks.

The key here is to not remember what you used to do as a boy/girl. Time has passed and you have a few miles on the clock. Start slow and give yourself recovery time. This is how our bodies repair and respond. Given time the body will be just a little fitter than before. Then do some more.

Make your activities varied and fun. Join others in group sessions such as a weekend bike ride. Remember how busy you can be in your 40’s so add social life to your exercise. It also helps you commit to a regular exercise installment since you don’t want to let your exercise friends down by not turning up.

A big tip! Most successful long-term exercisers have some of their exercise scheduled for early morning. This is not being masochistic. It’s just that first thing in the morning is where no-one can spring a meeting on you, you’re fresh and rested, there’s no after-work drinks or overtime, you are less likely to say “I’m just too tired” and the domestic cooking and cleaning chores are not that pressing.

It’s one part of the day that you can claim for yourself.

Weight management

Weight gains of 3 to 10 kilograms are common in the 40’s. It can be difficult to control if you don’t think too much about it. Your metabolism is slowing a little bit and your hormones are changing, more so for women.

Yet the evidence is clear. Type 2 diabetes is rampant. Weight gain and obesity are the major causes. They are preventable.

Healthy medicine approaches target the causes of obesity. Type 2 diabetes is an epidemic in our wealthy world. It is killing us by creating a morbid population with premature heart, cardio-vascular and renal disease, just to name a few of its effects.

Communities cry out for more money to be spent on hospitals and doctors. It is never enough and never will be. Until governments, communities and individuals wake up and start practicing healthy medicine we will always have more and more people with affluence disease. Our hospitals would be half-empty if our people committed to avoiding a totally avoidable disease. There would be no need for soaring costs if type 2 diabetes was eliminated.

Weight management helps in the avoidance of type 2 diabetes.

Can’t l just diet a bit? Diets are generally a short-term lifestyle change that ends after a period. We’ve all heard of the yo-yo effect of weight loss followed by weight gain.

Diets don’t work for a number of reasons.

So what does work? Exercise, eating and eating patterns can help us avoid type 2 diabetes in the majority of cases through its role in weight management.