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Tips for Your Twenties: Health Tips
Healthy Lifestyle tips:
1. Eat a Healthy Diet
2. Exercise Regularly(at least 30 minutes a day) and maintain a healthy weight
3. Make sure your diet contains important nutrients like protein, calcium, potassium, omega 3-fats, and folic acid(for women during their reproductive years)
4.Do not Smoke!
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Tips for Your Twenties: Health Tips
Health Tips:
1.Eat a healthy diet
2.Exercise regularly( 30 minutes a day)
3.maintain a healthy weight by limiting fast foods and processed foods and eating plenty of fruits and vegetables, whole grains, lean protein and low- or nonfat dairy products.
4. Get your daily nutrients of protein, calcium, potassium, omega-3 fats, and folic acid (for women during their reproductive years).
5. Pay attention to portion sizes
6.Do not smoke!
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Tips for Your Twenties: Health Routines
Helpful Health Routines:- Have a medical check-up at least every 2 years with a blood pressure screening.
- Women: Have a gynecological exam, clinical breast exam and Pap test every 2 to 3 years
- Prenatal care: contact your doctor if you think you may be pregnant. 3.Men: Have clinical testicular exam and perform regular self -exams.
- If you are at high risk for cholesterol, get a cholesterol screening
- Have a dental exam and cleaning every 6 to 12 months
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Tips for Your Twenties: Some Special Topics of Concern
-Take care of your sexual health. If you are sexually active, talk to your healthcare provider about contraception, safer sex, sexually transmitted diseases, STD prevention and HIV screening.
-Take care of your mental health. Your 20s can bring on signif icant life changes and new responsibilities. Find a way to reduce your stress.
-Talk to a qualified health care provider if you experience symptoms of depression
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From Your Twenties to Your Sixties: The Need to Know for Your Health Routine
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Tips for Your Thirties: Health Tips
- Maintain a healthy weight
- Eat a healthy diet, including plenty of vegetables, fruits, whole grains, lean protein and nonfat dairy products. Essential vitamins, minerals and other nutrients, such as iron, folic acid, calcium, potassium, B vitamins, vitamin D, fiber and healthy omega-3 fats
- Limit our intake of processed foods and reduce sodium in the diet.
- Find time to exercise regularly(30–60 minutes a day) 5.Get enough sleep. -Get 6-8 hours of sleep a night
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Tips for Your Thirties: Health Routines
- Follow your healthcare providers recommendations for preventive care and screenings -Have a medical check-up about every 1 to 2 years. 2.Women in their 30s should have a gynecological exam, clinic breast exam and Pap test and should speak with their healthcare provider before becoming pregnant. 3.Men should have a clinical testicular exam as recommended. 4.Dental exam and cleaning every 6 to 12 months 5.Get the recommended immunizations
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Tips for Your Thirties: Special Topics of Concern
1.Take care of your sexual and reproductive health. Talk to your healthcare provider about safer sex and STD/HIV prevention, contraception, infertility, pregnancy and prenatal care.
2.Take care of your mental and emotional health. Many of us have an overwhelming amount of responsibility
3.Take care of your back. Know proper lifting techniques.
4. Build muscle.
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Tips for Your Forties: Health Routines
1.Physical exam—Every 2 or 3 years
2.Dental exam and cleaning—Every 6 months to 1 year
3.Comprehensive eye exam—every 2 years
4.Blood pressure screening—Every 2 years
5.Cholesterol screening—Every 5 years
6. Diabetes screening
7.Baseline skin exam to determine your skin cancer risk(subsequent exams may be performed every 3 months to 3–4 years)
8.Colorectal cancer screening—beginning at age 45 if at increased risk
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Tips for Your Forties: Special Topics of Concern
1.Chronic pain.
2.Stress--Take care of yourself —eat right, exercise, keep in touch
with people who are important to you and find time to do things you
enjoy.
3.Blood pressure, cholesterol, triglycerides and homocysteine
levels, resting heart rate
4.Blood glucose
5.Body mass index (BMI)
6.Osteoporosis—Peak bone mass--gradually declining
7.Anxiety and depression
8.Sexual and reproductive health
9.Skin problems
10.Changes in vision and hearing loss
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Tips for Your Forties: Health Tips
-This is an important decade for preventing health problems such as diabetes, heart disease and many types of cancer later in life.
1. By now, you need to have healthy eating habits, be exercising regularly, getting enough sleep, not smoking, and drinking alcohol
only in moderation.
2.Contact your healthcare provider if you notice changes in your physical, mental or emotional health.
3.Ask about routine exams, screening procedures, and immunizations
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Tips for Your Fifties: Special Topics of Concern
1.Abnormal blood sugar levels
2.Anxiety Cancer
3.Changes in vision and hearing
4.Chronic pain
5.Depression
6.Digestive issues
7.Heart disease and High blood pressure
8.High cholesterol, triglycerides and homocysteine levels 9.Menopause
10.Osteoporosis (bone loss, thinning)
11.Overactive bladder
12.Prostate issues (benign prostatic hyperplasia [BPH, enlarged prostate])
13.Skin problems (adult acne, sun damage, age spots, wrinkles, dry skin)
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Tips for Your Fifties: Health Tips
1.Eat healthily
2.Pay attention to good nutrition and cut back on sodium(salt) in your diet
3.Be sure to get plenty of fruits and vegetables, lean protein, healthy fats (omega 3s), whole grains, fiber, vitamins and minerals each day. 4. Stay active—physically and mentally. Get at least 30 – 60 minutes of physical activity on most days of the week
5.Maintain a healthy weight
6. Keep an eye on your waist measurement-to-hip measurement ratio
7. Quit smoking!
8.Get enough sleep.
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Tips for Your Fifties: Health Routines
1.Physical exams at least every 2 years
2.Dental exam and cleaning—every 6 months to 1 year 3.Comprehensive eye exam—every 2 years
4. Blood pressure screening—every year
5.Cholesterol screening—every 5 years
6.Diabetes screening—every year
7.Colorectal cancer screening—beginning at age 50
8.Immunizations(as recommended)
9.Screening tests(women)—annual clinical breast exam, pelvic exam, and mammogram; Pap test, HPV test and bone density test 10.Screening tests(men)—testicular exam -
Tips for Your Sixties: Health Tips
- Quit smoking!
- Protect your heart.To reduce your heart disease risk, know your blood pressure, total cholesterol, LDL, HDL, triglycerides, fasting blood glucose, body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference. 3.Eat right and keep an eye on portion sizes. 4.Get at least 30 minutes of exercise almost everyday 5.If you drink alcohol, drink no more than one drink per day for women and two for men. 6.Eat healthily. Limit processed foods and those that are high in fat and/or sugar.
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Tips for Your Sixties: Health Rountines
Recommendations vary and are affected by several factors, including overall health.
1.Blood pressure screening—at least once every year
2.Bone density test—at age 60 or 65
4.Dental exam-every 6 months
5.Digital rectal exam and fecal occult blood test—every year
7.Fasting blood glucose test—at least every 3 years
9.Pelvic exam (in women)—every year
10. Vaccines(as recommended)
12.Testicular exam (in men)—every year
13.Tetanus shot—every 10 years
14.Thyroid test—every 5 years
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Tips for Your Sixties: Special Topics of Concern
Aging increases health problems like:
1.Heart disease
2.Arthritis
3.Type 2 diabetes
4. Osteoporosis (bone loss)
5. Some cancers
6. Benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH, enlarged prostate in men)
7.Incontinence
8. Others
