Keeping Up With Your Health In Your 40s and 50s

Here’re several suggestions on keeping up with your health in your 40s and 50s.

First and foremost, don’t put off checkups… Chronic conditions like diabetes, hypertension and high cholesterol are most common in this age range, but they’ not causing any symptoms yet. The key know your numbers like blood sugars, pressure, and cholesterol.

Make sure you include mammograms and colonoscopies, and take into consideration your risk factors.

Watch your gut, gut bacteria can improve your mood. eat plenty of probiotics like yogurt, kimchi, and kefir, as well as fiber-rich foods, like bananas, oats and asparagus.

Start strength training..two or three times a week, lift free weights or do pilates workouts. As we get older we gradually lose muscle and gain fat. Strength training can help counteract those effectsby maintaining muscle tissue, which burns more calories than fat.

On behalf of Eye On Wellness Coach Rhonda Roden, be well and stay healthy. I’m Chuck Williams and I’ll catch you next week on Eye on Wellness on KGNC.