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Health Numbers to Help You Stay Fit :posted by john tesh
Health Numbers to Help You Stay Fit
Want to stay healthy? Then you’ve gotta learn to love numbers! Keep these “health numbers” in mind if you want to stay fit. They come from Quick and Simple Magazine.
The first health number: 5. That’s the MAXIMUM number of minutes you should listen to music at full volume while wearing headphones or earbuds. If you blast your music any longer than that, not only will you irritate your co-workers or fellow bus passengers, but you’ll also risk inner ear damage! Know this: Most people crank their mp3 players to about 120 decibels – about the level of a firecracker. Experts say listening to something that loud can cause hearing damage after just 30 seconds! So avoid cranking the volume above the halfway point. If the person next to you has to raise their voice to be heard, your music’s too loud!
The next health number: 1,000. That’s the number of milligrams of calcium you need each day to ward off osteoporosis. So say researchers at the Centers For Disease Control. How can you get your thousand milligrams? If you have a glass of skim milk at breakfast, a slice of cheese on your sandwich at lunch, a carton of yogurt for your afternoon snack, and another glass of skim milk with dinner, you’re pretty much there.
The final health number: 6. That’s the number of years you can add to your life by FLOSSING every day! Why? Because the same bacteria that causes gum disease can lead to inflammation in your arteries, and cause heart disease. So floss daily to reduce the amount of bacteria in your teeth. Flossing won’t just help your heart, it’ll also help your social life. How? Dentists say the number one cause of bad breath is the hunks of decaying food that get stuck between your teeth! So if you floss ‘em away after every meal, you won’t repel people with your dragon breath.
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