Why Good Health?
An increasingly prevalent topic is about living longer healthy, tied in with life expectancy. For the life expectancy outcome to be accurate, it must be done on the child being born the same year of the study. The best method for calculating one’s life expectancy is on the website, www.myabaris.com, which asks for personal data such as age, weight, and so on. The older one is, the more accurate the outcome.
Often men’s culture is an impediment to living healthy. The value of investing time and money in health after 40 years of age is not easily understood. To convince and motivate people, the future that has always been (and still is) so far away must be illuminated by facts and figures and shown what the present unhealthy lifestyle can lead to.
- Statistics show that muscle mass begins to drop quickly after 40 years of age and already some 60% of these men are already overweight, out of shape and taking prescription drugs for one or more problematic health conditions.
- For those men still alive, it only worsens with age. Only 20% of men over 60 are in good health and in good shape. These figures really get worse i.e. around 95% of men over 75 are not healthy. This does not have to be, why not be healthy from 40 to 80 which for most is possible.
- For many men it’s the macho culture of taking unnecessary risks, dangerous driving, extreme sports, etc. needs to be shunned.
- Then some men are as careless with their body as if it were a rented car. Attitudes must change: time for eating well and exercising ought to be set aside in what is considered necessary to maintain the only body one will ever have and possibly be healthy to at least 80.
It may be safe to say that 60% of men are couch potatoes and will never change. The good news is there are 10% to 20% of men that only require a push or some encouragement to join the other 20% that are healthy today. The object is to reach that 10% of the 9 million Canadian men over the 40 of age.