Dealing with Chronic Stress

Stress is part of daily living with different challenges during our life journey. All humans are destined to experience adversities throughout their lives that are likely to impact their health and quality of life. Getting older can be stressful because of multiple losses in financial, psycho-social, personal, a decline in health, independence, and cognitive and functional abilities.

Stressors affect older adults are more often to be chronic, including change in social and family relationships/roles, loss of physical abilities (i.e., vision, hearing, memory, mobility) , dealing with medical conditions and health care decisions, suffering pain of loneliness and loss of loved ones. Improving lifestyle and behavioral choices are essential steps toward increasing overall health and managing chronic stress. As individuals react to stress differently, stress can impact our lives positively or negatively.

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Tough Fight for Belly Fat

Fighting with midlife belly fat? You are not alone.

It’s a tough game. Metabolism slows down with age, which means you burn fewer calories to keep basic body functions going. At the same time, bone and muscle mass decline and fat mass increases, which most likely accumulate in the abdominal area as belly fat. Belly fat is not just about clothes size, it is also a risk factor for type 2 diabetes and heart disease. Belly fat build up overtime as one gets older unless actions are taken for prevention.

Belly fat is commonly measured by waist circumference and here is how to measure it:

1. Start at the top of your hip bone, then bring the tape measure all the way around your body, level with your belly button.
2. Make sure it's not too tight and that it's straight, even at the back. Don't hold your breath while measuring.
3. Check the number on the tape measure right after you exhale.

​For best health, waist circumference should be less than 40 inches around for men, and less than 35 inches for women.

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