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Leg strength affect life expectancy Leg strength affect life expectancy If the body likened to a machine, "legs" is powered motor. Motor not working, the machine will be aging, dysfunctional. After the old man, not afraid of white hair, skin laxity, fear is stiff walk. Signs of longevity in the American magazine "Prevention" in summary, "the leg muscles strong." Impressively. Life is also difficult to find, long-lived people, almost all footed, walking wind. Therefore, as long as the legs keep a good possibility of living will greatly improve over a hundred years old. Sports people live longer - but systemic pressures in the "legs" Legs like a human's load-bearing walls. Few people know that 50 percent of a person's bones and muscles are 50% on two legs; lifetime 70% of activity and energy consumption should be done by it; body's largest and most sturdy joints and bones are among . Young people, the femur can prop up a car; knee then endured nine times the pressure of body weight; leg muscles also often carried out with the earth's gravitational fight to maintain tension. So, solid bones, strong muscles and flexible joints to form a 'triangle' to bear the weight of the main body. Institute of Geriatrics, Ministry of Health, former director Professor Gao Fangkun explained. Legs or the body's transportation hub. 50% of the human legs have nerve, 50% of the blood vessel, blood flowing 50%, a cycle is to connect the body tissue. Only his legs healthy, Meridian conduction was blocked, blood can be successfully sent to various organs, especially the heart and digestive system. We can say that the strong leg muscles person must have a strong heart. As a result, U.S. scientists believe can be judged from the walking person's health status. If a 70-year-old -79 years old once about 400 meters walking distance, it shows their health condition allows him to live at least six years. Every elderly go longer distances, faster, and take the more relaxed, then the longer his life. From the beginning of the aging legs! As the saying goes: the tree roots to dry, people old legs first decline. After the old man, between the legs and brain instruction accuracy and conduction velocity has declined, unlike the young man so understanding. Dr. Pei Hui Institute of Chinese Academy of Sciences, explains, from birth to death, legs all the time at work, if not pay attention to the protection of, naturally, "disrepair" the. Older the U.S. government expert said Dvorak, MD, from the age of 20, if not actively campaign, every 10 years could lose 5 percent of muscle tissue. Meanwhile, the bones in the "reinforced" said the calcium will gradually drain, human bones and joints, especially the hip and knee will be problems, such as easy to fall fracture. Easily lead to fracture of the femoral head necrosis elderly, bedridden, and then cause pressure sores, urinary tract stones and other complications, and even induce thrombosis. 15% of patients even die within a year of fracture. |
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I agree, the legs are very important to the rest of the body's strength and blood flow functions. I was recently talking with an acupuncturist, about some pressure points in the legs. those above and below the knee and along the lower section of the calf. I have personally noted, certain pressure points on the legs which give instant relief once that pressure is affected positively to allow blood flow.
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