Times-Advocate, 1999-02-03, Page 8Wednesday. February 3. 1999
Exeter Times --Advocate
WHAT IS HEART DISEASE?
TEST YOVR
KNOWLEM.IE
What is Heart Disease ?
Improving your odds against
Canada's #1 killer.
Risk Factors
The .Life Choices Philosophy
Remember when tying your own shoe laces was a
symbol of independence? Taking care of yourself.
Making your own choices.
You've been tying your shoe laces for many years
now and making your own choices every day. Many
of them affect your health and your life.
The Life Choices for better heart health are easy
and fun! •
No one is going to make you do any of it. It's your
choice. Your health. Your life.
The LIFE CHOICES PHILOSOPHY is simple. Learn
those few things that will make your health better.
And do them every day, just like brushing your teeth,
showering and sleeping. All of them are easy and
most of them are fun to do.
Nutrition
What is your ideal weight
Your ideal weight has to do with your self -percep-
tion as well as scientific data. Each of us is unique.
Charts and graphs can only help us in determining
the ideal weight zone. So during your next .visit dis-
cuss it with your physician and together select a tar-
get weight zone for yourself. One that makes sense
for your height, bone -structure, age and background.
Pinch An Inch
There are ways. of measuring your progress other
than the bathroom scale.
Grab a fold of skin at the side of your waist. If it is
more than an inch (? ('m), you have a measuring
tool. When you are at p a ideal weight your fold will
measure just less than an inch.
Can you get into that bathing
suit you bought seven years ago?
Perhaps that is your measuring
tool.
How about that belt that you had
to loosen notch by notch as your weight crept higher
and higher? Maybe your measurement of progress
will be tightening that belt back toward the first
notch you used when you bought it years ago.
During the weight loss process you will be burning
more energy through increased activity. Once you
have reached that ideal weight zone, the perfect bal-
ance is energy in is equal to energy out.
Sinokin g
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Breathe Free
Smoker? You know what to do!
If you need some help, call us. And
benefits when you do quit!
Within 20 minutes
♦ blood pressure drops to normal
`''pulse rate drops to normal
v temperature of feet and
hands drops to normal'
After 8 hours
✓ carbon monoxide level in
blood drops to normal
✓ oxygen level in blood
increases
to normal
This Message is made possible
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Within 2_ weeks to 3 months
V circulation improves
♦ lung function increases up to 30%
Within tto 9 months
v coughing, fatigue, shortness of breath decrease
v reduction of infections
r your body's overall energy increases
After one year
♦ your risk of a heart attack drops by 50%
Second-hand Smoke Kills
Each cigarette burns for 12 minutes. During that
time a smoker only inhales for about 30 seconds.
While that cigarette is burning it is giving off more
than 4000 chemicals into the air that we all breathe.
Fifty of those chemicals are known causes of cancer.
Because second-hand smoke does not pass through a
filter, it contains more tar and carbon monoxide than
the smoke inhaled by the smoker.
Non-smokers who are regularly exposed to second-
hand smoke experience more heart attacks, cancers
and bronchitis than non-smokers who choose to stay
away from all that smoke.
Home air cleaning systems? Useless! They just
spread it around.
For your own health's sake choose to be in places
where there's no smoke!
After 24 hours
♦ ability to smell and taste is enhanced
After 72 hours
9 bronchial tubes relax, making breathing easier
r lung capacity increases
by the generosity pf the community m
Davis Moore
Fuels Ltd, Pr)!
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315 Main St. N.
Exeter, Ont. NOM 1S3
Tel: (519) 235-0853
(Exercise)
Humans Are Designed To Move
If we become inactive we get into trouble. It's sim-
ple. When we eat we take in energy. When we move
we burn energy. If we take in more energy than we
burn, we store that extra energy as fat. Fat is food
energy in storage.
When we were kids we moved around all the time.
And we burned a lot of energy just growing. Most of
us did not have weight problems as children.
We all need a little fat in storage to be healthy. 13 ut
for every pound of extra fat that we store, -our body
must create a mile (1.6 km) of extra blood vessels
just to feed it. So the heart has to pump overtime to
provide blood through all that extra mileage.
inded businesses listed below
1-800-265-2931
HURON
APOTHECARY LTD.
Phone 235-1982, 440 Main St. Exeter
"Your Health Care Pharmacy"
BOB CASE
PLUMBING, HEATING & ELECTRIC
AIR CONDITIONING
R.R. #1 Grand Bend ON, NOM 1TO
(519) 238-8193
53f. McBeath 5Unem(5thme In
49 Goshen St. N., Zurich
Tel: (519) 236-4365
Fax: (519) 236-4359
Agent for Stratford Memorials
JERRY MATHERS LTD.
Office Equipment -Furniture & Stationery
Hensall • 262-2728
92 Main St. Exeter
235-1840
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471 Main St. Exeter
235-3500
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Phone 235-1380 Fax: 235-1401
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Lincoln Mercury
Sales Ltd.
Exeter, Ontario
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Country Corners
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Operated by Logan
Ford Tractor Sales Ltd.
R.R. 3 Dashwood
(Mt. Carmel)
Phone: 237-3456 1-800-265.2901
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Exeter Dear
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15 Gilley Si. Exeter 235-1010
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311 Main St. Exeter
Wkere service is always in styli
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Handyman • Repairs • Renovations • Carpentry • Painting
BOB DIETRICH ilk
BOX 123, 12 Mary St.
Zurich, Ont. NOM 2T0
236-4989 (Please leave a message)
No job is too small
Need a handyman, let me do your odd jobs
Sales & Service
Phone (519) 236-4934 Fax (519) 236-7330
22 MAIN ST. ZURICH