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Healthy Habits For
Middle-Age Bodies

SHARON ACHATZ
SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS

You find yourself puffing up a
flight of stairs or aching after lift-
ing some grocery bags, and it hits
you — hard.
Middle-age malaise.
You're a step slower, less flex-
ible and probably more friendly
with your physician than you
were in your 20s and teens.
It's a simple fact of life that
health and fitness no longer
come naturally during middle
age, and that's also a time of life
when many people see the onset
of a variety of ills — including
heart disease, cancer, hyperten-
sion and obesity.
There are, however, some sim-
ple ways to help yourself feel
good as ever in the coming years.
A low-fat, high-fiber diet, reg-
ular exercise and weight control
go a long way toward maintain-
ing strength, flexibility and gen-
eral health — and also toward
staving off many of those middle-
age illnesses.
Fat is the culprit linked most
often to America's health prob-
lems. Experts recommend a diet
that contains only 20 percent to
30 percent of its calories from fat.
Cutting back on fat not only is
the best way to maintain a
healthy weight, it also can help
lower the risk of America's top
killers: heart disease and cancer.
Fiber adds bulk to the diet, aid-
ing in digestion. It also is thought
to help protect against colon can-
cer and has been shown to reduce
blood cholesterol levels.
Any regular exercise that re-
quires sustained movement,
such as walking or bicycling, re-
duces the risk of several life-
threatening diseases, including
heart disease, high blood pres-
sure and possibly cancer.
Strength training, such as lifting
weights, may be the best type of
exercise for cutting the risk of os-
teoporosis.
Here's a rundown of some of
the most common middle-age
maladies, and suggestions for
outsmarting them:
If you're eating right and ex-
ercising regularly, weight
shouldn't be a problem. Studies
show, however, that about 25
percent of Americans are 20
pounds overweight and that
those extra pounds can increase
the risk of heart disease, high
blood pressure, stroke and dia-
betes.
The key to weight control is to
combine a nutritionally balanced,
fat-controlled diet with adequate
physical activity.
Cutting back on food con-
sumed is not the solution, ac-
cording to experts. Middle-age
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