Health: Physical Activity and Less?

Physical Activity and Less?

Written by Dr. Jamie Fettig

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best form of physical activity? The one you will actually do. You see, everyone is different. How can there be any one form of physical activity that is best for everyone? And repparttar 113798

good news is that it can be something different every day. You can walk one day, run another, go swimming another, play frisbee golf another, go golfing repparttar 113799

next, rollerblade repparttar 113800

next day, ride your bike another day, etc. You do not have to do repparttar 113801

same thing every day. But you can if you want to. How often and for how long is it best to do activity? Again, everyone is different so listen to your inner knowing and do what it says. Some hints on understanding what your inner knowing is telling you about physical activity: One day 30 minutes might be perfect for you, and repparttar 113802

next day only 10 minutes is good. Other days an hour or two might be ideal. One day a slow relaxing pace might be ideal, repparttar 113803

next a heavy vigorous workout might be called for. You might work out 5 days a week and 2 repparttar 113804

next week. There are no rules about how and when you should or shouldn't do physical activity. My only guideline would be: Do what you want to do, and listen to your inner knowing when doing it. The lawyers would want me to tell you here to consult a physician before starting any exercise program. My thought is that your inner knowing knows better than any doctor does about what is best for you. If you listen to your inner knowing and act on what it says, who cares about repparttar 113805

doctor. Walking outside is a great option. You can take deep full breaths of fresh air when you are walking and go within and focus on repparttar 113806

presence within you. You will also get sunlight from being outside. Bottom line, just do some form of sustained physical activity.

Does Caffeine Raise Blood Pressure?

Written by Matt Pitcher

If you suffer from Cardiovascular Disease (CVD or coronary heart disease) and/or fear you might some day due to high blood pressure, is your coffee consumption compounding repparttar

problem? Or, are there other things you can do to alleviate your high blood pressure and CVD concerns that do NOT include ending, or severely lessening, your coffee intake? This article explores reliable answers to those questions.

Can Coffee Contribute to Coronary Heart Disease? CVD is repparttar 113797 number one cause of death in America and high blood pressure is one of its biggest red flags. CVD has been repparttar 113798 subject of extensive medical and scientific research for several decades. While researchers have differed in their conclusions over time, new evidence reported in The American Journal of Epidemiology in 1999 strongly indicates that consumption of coffee and caffeine does not contribute to CVD, finding neither caffeinated nor decaffeinated coffee associated with repparttar 113799 risk of stroke—even for those drinking more than four cups of coffee a day.

Warren G. Thompson, M.D., noted in a 1994 literature review published in The American Journal of Medical Sciences, that: "The largest and better studies suggest that coffee is not a major risk factor for coronary disease."

Willet et. al, in a prospective study reported in repparttar 113800 February 1996 issue of repparttar 113801 Journal of repparttar 113802 American Medical Association (JAMA), examined data collected from more than 85,000 women over a 10-year period. After adjusting for known risk factors, repparttar 113803 authors found no evidence for any positive association between coffee consumption and risk of CVD for women consuming six or more cups of coffee a day.

A 1990 New England Journal of Medicine study of more than 45,000 men found no link between coffee, caffeine and CVD for those drinking four or more cups of coffee a day.

These results confirm findings from repparttar 113804 earlier Framingham Heart Study of more than 6,000 adults conducted over 20 years (as published in repparttar 113805 Archives of Internal Medicine) and two 1987 studies using data from repparttar 113806 Honolulu Heart Program (published in The New England Journal of Medicine and The American Journal of Epidemiology respectively).

Does Coffee/Caffeine Consumption Contribute to High Blood Pressure? Despite previous controversy on repparttar 113807 subject, most researchers now conclude that regular coffee and caffeine use has little or no effect on blood pressure.

Studies reviewed in repparttar 113808 Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases indicate that while first-time caffeine use may produce immediate, minimal changes in blood pressure, these changes are transient. No changes in blood pressure appear to occur in regular users of caffeine. A 1991 study published in repparttar 113809 British Medical Journal reached repparttar 113810 same conclusion and indicated that restricting caffeine did not reduce blood pressure in people with mild hypertension. A number of studies that have looked at people with normal blood pressure (published in repparttar 113811 Archives of Internal Medicine and repparttar 113812 American Journal of Nutrition) have concluded that caffeine does not contribute to hypertension.

In 1997, repparttar 113813 Sixth Report of repparttar 113814 National Institutes of Health's Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation and Treatment of High Blood Pressure concluded that, "no direct relationship between caffeine intake and elevated blood pressure has been found in most epidemiologic surveys."

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