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I have written this several times before but I am going to do it again—I wrote this story when I was mentoring an 8 year old and her mom on their weight loss journey. The little girl wanted to learn about nutrition, digestion, cardiology and the benefit of cardio exercise.
People have asked me why young people (kids) and younger, seemingly healthy high school athletes die of cardiac events, and yet some much older person will go in for an elective procedure and discover in the work up that at sometime in the past they too have had a cardiac event but obviously survived it or never knew it happened . So here is the simple answer in a nutshell— lifelong active lifestyle.
Typically when we are young we have wide open blood vessels that quickly respond to increased need for more blood flow to a given organ during stress, or increased activity. Think of your major vascular system like the freeway system around where you might live. For me it is the 5/91/55/57. These are big freeways that once moved hundreds of thousands of cars without problem. But the area has grown massively, the freeways are crowded and are slowing down— but the county and state started identifying this problem early on and started building accessory routes to bypass the most congested areas of the freeways. Then they went even further and built smaller toll roads and frontage roads to feed highly congested areas to take the load off the freeways and highways in order to keep things moving locally, and then built special routes that go strictly to specific places like Disneyland and the beach. Well your body does the same thing. When you exercise your heart rate increases in response to greater oxygen demand, blood flows faster and there is less opportunity for plaque formation. When we continue with an active lifestyle that challenges the body to keep building our vascular system. as we begin to age, the body will keep building highways, streets, toll roads in response to the continued need to meet oxygen demand (exercise). So by the time that 5 freeway becomes so congested (plaque) that the traffic no longer moves and comes to a stop, there are already alternate routes in place to take up the slack. The heart keeps pumping blood to the kidneys, lungs, the brain and the person survives to get to the OR or cath lab. A young person has not had time to have added all those accessory roads to his vascular system, so when his 5/91 freeway comes to a halt, he does too.
Diet Calendar Entries for 04 March 2023:
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981 kcal
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Fat: 31.13g | Prot: 28.38g | Carb: 149.86g.
Breakfast: Trader Joe's Hass Avocado, Nopales, Heritage beans, Smithfield Boneless Center Cut Pork Loin, Dave's Killer Bread Thin-Sliced Good Seed Organic Bread, Sarabeth's Orange Apricot Marmalade, Aqua de Jamaica (hibiscus ice tea), Morning coffee, Fried Egg. Lunch: Maple Grove Farms Pure Maple Syrup, Waffle House Buttermilk Waffle. more...
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1435 kcal
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Activities & Exercise:
Walking (slow) - 2/mph - 1 hour, Grocery Shopping - 1 hour, Resting - 14 hours, Sleeping - 8 hours. more...
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