4 Tips To Be Alert At 70
June 30, 2009
Yes, it is true anyone who lives uptil the age of 70 can be alert. He will be looked up by his children and grandchildren. This has gained importance due to fact that the mortality rate has gone up, but many who live old also live miserable lives if they do not take steps to keep themselves physically and mentally alert. Here are 70 tips which could make you feel alert even at 70 and make you think life is worth living.
The first tip is to join the 70 plus health club. There would be many more who would join along with you. This is not to refer to any health club, but to the benefits of keeping oneself active helping your children and their families in the rat race of earning money and the concept of a 2 pay-packet family. Grandparents can and are expected at times to be babysitters and housekeepers. It is nothing wrong in accepting this responsibility if one can live with one’s self-esteem because it would keep one physically active and alert at 70.
The second tip is to take up doing aerobic exercises, which makes the heart beat faster and harder and also improves one’s mental abilities to be alert at 70. Walking, jogging and running could help production of serotonin in the brain. This becomes possible by the production of more brain cells that nourish the brain and also improves one’s moods and vigor. One’s ability to concentrate, take decisions and initiative and the memory and organizational powers are enhanced.
The third tip to a alert self at 70 is improve the activity of the front left lobe of brain. This is found in the young and helps memorizing words. One can improve even at 70 by doing various puzzles and playing brain games. Anyone can improve his brain power and reduce the age of his brain by doing the activity he chooses and loves like crossword puzzles; here one has to exercise his brain to find a suitable word, Sudoku puzzles and number games; where one has to be logical to find and fit in a suitable number.
The fourth tip to be alert at 70, is to join a health club or yoga class where one could go and do moderate exercises that could help to make the muscles more flexible; this could really add to one’s self-esteem and make one happy and alert. It would also help if one could spend time with one’s peer group in activities like a laughing club, humor club, walking club and so on.
One can surely be physically and mentally active by following these 4 tips. Some mental exercises like logical, mathematic, word logic puzzles and Sudoku makes one’s brain 7 to 14 years younger and also retard the growth of Alzheimer’s disease. So, dear 70+ club members you can be physically and mentally alert and can challenge your grandchildren at something they are good at and think grandparents are no good.
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