Until your 40th birthday, most people feel immortal. This is not so crazy, under 40 there are almost no chronic diseases. However, the run-up to these chronic diseases starts at a young age, when you can still handle the whole world. In this blog we examine how a preventive health check makes you the conductor of your own health again.
Health check
A health check is a test to check how healthy you are. You are healthy when you:
“In a state of overall well-being in which there is no physical injury or illness”.
What matters is that it matters preventative health that is currently not causing any problems.
Why should you do a health check?
A health check solves problems in one early stage. Of course you can't prevent everything, there is also a factor of bad luck. But in most cases, detecting health problems early means you'll get the hang of it final stages of these diseases changes positively. That is, they are less serious.
Vincent Bastian, sports scientist at the expertise center for health, sport and labor HAN SENECA, says:
“If you check the status of someone's health and how that health is developing in a reliable, good and valid way, then we can overcome many problems”.
An additional advantage is that you ultimately reduce healthcare costs.
A point of criticism from the healthcare sector, for example, is that it increases the pressure on healthcare, because you get more people for treatment in the short term. However, the treatment processes are becoming shorter, says Vincent Bastiaans.
Type of health check
Health checks come in all shapes and sizes. From measuring your height and weight, calculating BMI, completing questionnaires to an InBody scan at Happy Bodies.
Of course you can measure everything, but the most important indicators for your health are:
- Check your lifestyle;
- Check your cholesterol; and
- Check your blood pressure.
- Check you blood sugar.
Health Netherlands
The Netherlands has many chronically ill people. Of all people over the age of 40, 50% even has a chronic disease. The biggest culprits are:
- Diabetes
- Heart and vascular disease
- High cholesterol
- High bloodpressure
- Cancer
Add to that the fact that 50% in the Netherlands is overweight and a significant part of them are even obese. A large part of the chronic diseases can be traced to this.
Overweight can be traced back to our consumer society combined with a sedentary existence. We already wrote about this last week, with a few steps per day you can already achieve enormous health gains.
The solution
The good news is that you can prevent 80% from chronic diseases with a good lifestyle. To play sports is a perfect remedy for high cholesterol and high blood pressure.
We at Happy Bodies are therefore happy to be part of the solution. Aimed at the 40+ to grow old fit and vital.
No you don't have to exercise 5 times a week. Once every 5 days is sufficient.
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