Lifestyle Factors Affecting Quality of Life in Late Adulthood.
Studies
have shown that the way a person lives his or her life in the later
years can make those years exciting for the
person. These lifestyle factors have more influence on the quality of
life than genetics has. "An American woman who today reaches age 50
free of cancer and heart disease can expect to see her 92nd birthday.
The average man who is 65 today - an age now reached by more than 70
percent of the U.S. population - can expect to live
until 81. This amounts to a second adult lifetime. (
(Sheehy, 1995, pp. 5-6). But health cannot be taken for granted and
usually must be achieved with deliberate actions. The Center for
Disease Control (CDC) recommends that people be “physically active, eat
a healthy
diet, do not use tobacco, and practice other healthy behaviors” to
reduce the risk of chronic diseases. They emphasize
that “physical activity is the key to healthy aging.”
So it's all about Lifestyle!
You know that quick and easy solutions like "lose weight
while you sleep" do not work in the long run. It takes a long-term
lifestyle change to get lasting results.
A Behavior change is not merely a matter of knowledge or skill. If that
were true, then all the information campaigns on how to improve your
health would have made behavior-related illnesses a thing of the past.
And birth control information would prevent teen pregnancies.
Changing Lifestyle demands:
- courage to start changes;
- motivation to continue maintain new behavior until the changes become habits, and new habits form new Life Style;
- time, and we must
let it take time.
Lifestyle Program - Un esprit sain dans un corps sain
(A healthy mind in a healthy body)
Has been developed as the way to new Life Style - "Sain Esprit" Life Style - Healthy Spirit Life Style.
We help you to start new things by doing them with you by sharing the experience of practicing new habits.
Since behavior or habit changes take a significant amount of
time, you need a mechanism to maintain motivation.
"Sain Esprit" Life Style Program invites you to the road where every
step will be rewarded, which helps to keep that necessary motivation
intact and growing. Your energy will grow every day. You stop feeling
tired. That feeling alone worth every effort you invest in the Program.
Habits, like cactus are hard to kill. They are like water running
downhill; it takes no effort to maintain a habit; even a bad one.
So
there’s the secret. We use your normal daily routine to help maintain
new habits, by incorporating them into your life. A good system is one
that is easier to follow
than not follow. If you want something to become a habit, put it inside
a procedure that you normally do. So we create a new Life Style from
your normal routine plus new habits. You remove some bad habits and not
just leave the empty spaces but fill them with new ones. This new
ones will be so good for your overall well being that rewards from
following them help to overcome the strength of old habits. I
cannot stress enough the importance of placing your new behavior
inside your normal daily routine; it builds your commitment right into
what
you do. When your new behavior is the part of a standard procedure that you
follow without having to decide each time, you will find that it gets
reinforced so that it gradually becomes like that water running down
hill. "Sain Esprit" Life Style Program helps to learn the way to
keep going on with time, by incorporating the new habits in you normal
daily routine. One of the mission of the Program is to create for every
member her or his own unique version of "Sain Esprit" Life Style .
Working together with you on daily basis we help you to incorporate
all elements of the program. So that your already stable
routines and habits will include the new ones and keep you going on
doing them without frustration of making everyday effort for a long
time.
"Sain
Esprit" Life Style is a very thorough and sophisticated program, which
only can be learned through sharing experience with Program leader for at
least one or better two weeks. The exact content of the Program vary
from group to group, from person to person. Most of the elements well
known to you. You have heard of low-carb nutrition approach. You know
yoga, stretch, walking, jogging, stair-climbing. You understand the
importance of breakfast being the main meal of the day. And you know
that you should stop eating after dinner. We add some principles and
lots of practical how-to-do-it things.