Aerobic exercise is one form of exercise with low to moderate intensity which is done for a longer or a moderate duration. With aerobic exercise, our blood flow increases to the muscles, thus strengthening cardiovascular and lungs. Muscles need oxygen, and the increases muscle activity associated with aerobic exercise makes body to allow for more oxygen to the muscles being used. This does the heart and lungs working better and harder. At the end it will also strengthens the lungs and the entire cardiovascular system. There are also another term that you may have heard before: Anaerobic exercise. Aerobic exercise is in contrast to anaerobic exercise which usually involves intense activity that is abruptly or short in duration, such as weight lifting. (more…)

With heart disease risk being the number one cause of death among older Americans, you should pay particular attention to known causes of heart disease. A healthy heart can continue to function as well at 70 as it did at 30. If your heart is not affected by disease, your resting heart rate remains the same throughout your life. The question, then, is what can you do to keep it healthy? Here are ten simple advices for maintaining a healthy heart. (more…)

Are you confidence enough that your retirement fund can pay all medical health care cost when needed in time? Can your Medicare and Medicaid insurance cater medical bill and doctor’s visit when you need them? You better think again. Medical health care costs are increasing all the time. You should also consider inflation factor that eats up your money to pay your medical health care bills. Well, lots of reasons are driving those cost to increase. There are several factors which you must understand why medical health care costs are increasing all the time. (more…)

As you probably know, sex hormone in women is declining with age. Men also experiencing the same, even though the declining rate is not as steep drop like women menopause. But the effect is substantial in well being and fertility. Until recent years, there has been a lot concern about the subject of testosterone levels in men. Andropause as the name suggest, is declining 1% per year of testosterone levels hormone for men age over 30 years. This significantly put those men group in risk of having disease-syndromes related to andropause. (more…)

Back and neck pain are common and do occurs among adults. Our back and neck contain spinal cords which are a complex structure which involves several nerves, joints, tendons, and muscles. Most of the time back and neck pain are as a result of several muscle strains. But it is also a common understanding that back and pain is the outcome of overdoing some activities that put stress and strain around that area. (more…)