Lifetime Personal Health: Healthy Eating, Physical Activity, and Preventative Health Care
By timeismoney7
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20s: The Defining Decade
Important nutrients in your 20s that are essential to a healthy diet include protein, calcium, potassium, and healthy omega 3 fats. Exercising regularly is critical as well, with weight-bearing exercises like hiking helping you to build bone at this particular bone building peak. Finding a primary care provider and family history can be great as well. Men need a clinical testicular exam as recommended by their doctor and perform regular self-exams. Check your BMI too; a healthy one is below 25. -
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30s: Moving On
Iron, folic acid, calcium, potassium, B vitamins, vitamin D fiber, and healthy omega-3 fats are crucial nutrients for our 30s. Biking, swimming, etc. are good forms of exercise, and it becomes more necessary because your metabolism slows down in this decade. Monitoring your BMI, blood pressure, and cholesterol becomes more important. As recommended, men should have a clinical testicular exam. Monitoring back pain is critical because it's one of the most common reasons for missed work days. -
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40s: Middle Aged
Eating healthily, exercising, and generally caring for yourself are helpful in preventing chronic pain, blood pressure, osteoporosis, and anxiety and depression. Men in the 40s experience symptoms of testosterone deficiency, benign prostatic hyperplasia, or transient erectile dysfunction, and about half experience occasional impotence. Changes in vision, hearing loss, urinary incontence, overactive bladder, and digestive problems may occur, and you can always mention concerns to your doctor. -
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50's: Between Middle Aged and Senior Citizenship
In this time where we have the tendency to turn muscle into fat, fat burns fewer calories than muscle, making the weight gain cycle hard to break, so we must find physical activity we enjoy in this decade that we can do for 30-60 minutes. Limiting salt and eating healthy fats, whole grain, fiber, vitamins, and minerals is good for physical health. Physical exams are recommended every two years, in which you could receive a testicular exam or a prostate cancer screening, or have as recommended. -
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60's: Nearing/At Senior Citizenship
Fruits and vegetables, fiber-rich whole grains, non- or low-fat dairy products, fish, legumes, etc. are recommended for this decade. It's become even more important to find a physical activity that's right for you and to ask your doctor about your concerns. Colonoscopies every ten years, bone density tests, shingles vaccine and eye exams are some essential things your doctor must do in some checkups. Learning CPR, getting your smoke detectors tested, and wearing a seat belt are also helpful tips