Keeping It For Life
Does anyone of you here have problem falling asleep, waking up multiple times at night, or simply cannot fall back asleep? If so, put your work away at least one hour before bed, as overloading your work will increase your thoughts and worry before bedtime. And by letting your mind rest before bedtime will help prevent you from stressing out. Use dim light before bed if you want your eyes to get comfortable with darkness and not just from brightness to darkness.
If ever, keep the environment as dark as possible while sleeping, as the body needs to be in darkness in order to receive the full benefits. You could wear a mask over your eyes to keep the outside light from interrupting your sleep. However, if in doing all of the above won’t still make you fall asleep, then provide yourself with sleeping pills that will actually give you more restful sleep at an affordable price. After all, preparing your mood and environment will help increase your chance of a well night sleep and keeping it for life
Long-Term Job Prospects
In today’s economy, the skills and expertise you will obtain from going to college pays off in different ways. Yet, the dilemma of not having a college degree is faced by many job seekers. It becomes particularly difficult because even if you have ‘real-world’ experience, you most likely will never be considered if you don’t have one, while if you have a college degree, your chances of finding a job are improved overall. So, for those who still have not obtained their long dreamed degree probably because of some early hitches in life, and then there a lot of online training where you can now possibly obtained your long-sought online degree.
Nevertheless, in other cases, degrees are required because they are specific to the position, whether it’ll be scientific or technical in nature or requires a specific training and accreditation. As such, although there will be significant competition of jobs on different fields in the future, hence, individuals who possess above average business acumen through online business degree will have better employment opportunities available to them than those who lack business knowledge. And while networking is essential to building relationships and contacts, yet, earning a bachelor’s degree secures students’ long-term job prospects.
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Getting Your Stuff
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Aerobic Exercise No Big Stretch For Older Adults
Just three months of physical activity reaps heart health benefits for older adults with type 2 diabetes by improving the elasticity in their arteries – reducing risk of heart disease and stroke, Dr. Kenneth Madden told the 2009 Canadian Cardiovascular Congress, co-hosted by the Heart and Stroke Foundation and the Canadian Cardiovascular Society.
Dr. Madden studied adults between the ages of 65 to 83 with controlled Type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, and high blood cholesterol to see how increased activity might affect stiffness of the arteries.
“The theory is that aerobic activity makes your arteries less stiff and makes artery walls more elastic,” says Dr. Madden, a geriatric specialist at the University of British Columbia.
An improvement was seen in the elasticity of the arteries of the group that performed the activity compared to those who didn’t exercise. “There was an impressive drop in arterial stiffness after just three months of exercise. In that time we saw a 15 to 20 per cent reduction.”
The subjects were divided into two groups to either receive three months of vigorous physical activity (one hour, three times per week) or to get no aerobic exercise at all. Subjects were classified as sedentary at the beginning of the study but gradually increased their fitness levels until they were working at 70 per cent of their maximum heart rate, using treadmills and cycling machines. They were supervised by a certified exercise trainer.
Dr. Beth Abramson, spokesperson for the Heart and Stroke Foundation, stresses the importance of lifestyle factors on heart health, especially with our aging population. “Almost everyone can benefit from active living,” she says. “The Foundation recommends that, like adults of any age, older adults – with the consent of their physicians ? need 30 to 60 minutes of moderate activity most days of the week.”
Dr. Madden says that the exercise requirements may be viewed as controversial because of the age of the participants but the exercise level was safe and well tolerated. “There seems to be a knee-jerk reluctance to getting these older adults to exercise yet we used a vigorous level of activity and didn’t have any trouble keeping participants in our study. They enjoyed the activity,” Dr. Madden says. “People always underestimate what older adults can do.”
Dr. Madden notes that realistically, seniors need someone to help them get started. “We need to learn how to do it effectively and how to do it safely,” he says. “It could mean visiting your family doctor to find out about provincially funded programs, or joining programs for seniors that are offered at many local community centers.”
Dr. Abramson recommends that seniors choose activities they enjoy, such as walking, gardening, golfing, dancing, or joining a yoga or tai chi class. If weather is a barrier, she suggests climbing stairs at home, joining a mall-walking group, or strolling the halls of their apartment building or retirement residence.
In his next project, Dr. Madden wants to find out if there is a less expensive but equally effective way to reduce the stiffness of arteries in older adults. “Our first step was to prove that it was at all possible for older adults to have reduced narrowing in their arteries due to exercise,” he says. “Now we want to find out just how rigorous the levels of activity need to be to demonstrate the same results. The next step is to try studying a home-based walking program using pedometers. This is something easy for doctors to prescribe and cheap and easy for participants.”
The Heart Walk Workout, a special activity program developed by the Heart and Stroke Foundation to help people with cardiovascular problems get regular, healthy physical activity is available online at heartandstroke.ca. It helps people slowly build up exercise tolerance until they can walk at least 30 minutes, five times a week.
Statements and conclusions of study authors are solely those of the study authors and do not necessarily reflect Foundation or CCS policy or position. The Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada and the Canadian Cardiovascular Society make no representation or warranty as to their accuracy or reliability. redOrbit