Heart Health
This is leading cause of death worldwide.
What is cardiovascular disease?
A type of physical activity that relies on oxygen to generate energy; when conducted consistently over time, it results in improvements to your cardiovascular system, reduction in risk of type 2 diabetes, lowers blood pressure and resting heart rate.
What is Aerobic exercise?
Eating more of these two things play an important role in heart health because they contain antioxidants that can help prevent injuries to the arteries.
What are fruits and vegetables?
This is major risk factor for heart disease that happens when the pressure of the blood in your arteries and other blood vessels is too high.
What is high blood pressure?
A club that members join when they have reached 100, 250, and 500 classes.
What is Sweat Club?
Someone has one of these every 30-40 seconds every day in the U.S; One in five people don’t realize they’ve had one.
What is a heart attack?
This type of training can help reduce fat and create leaner muscle mass, and when combined with aerobic exercise, it may help raise HDL (good) cholesterol and lower LDL (bad) cholesterol.
What is strength training? (Resistance)
These types of grains are rich source of fiber. Fiber helps maintain healthy cholesterol levels, reducing the risk of heart disease.
What are whole grains?
Often known as the silent killer; too much of this waxy, fat like substance made by the liver and found in some foods, can cause plaque build up in your arteries.
What is LDL cholesterol? Low density lipoprotien
A SLAM Nation policy of where babies and children under four years stay when we SLAM (especially if there are weights out)!
Stroller (or wagon/play-pin)
It is the most common type of heart disease.
What is coronary heart disease?
Shown to improve the heart’s structure, improve a person’s capacity to burn fuel, raise HDL (good) cholesterol and lower LDL (bad) cholesterol, prevent diseases, such as type 2 diabetes, this type of workout is characterized by alternating between low- and high-intensity intervals of exercise
What is Hight Intensity Interval Training (HIIT)? *Low Volume*
Choosing healthier types of This macro-nutrient, such as Legumes, nuts, and fish are associated with lower cardiovascular disease risks.
What is protein?
This condition causes sugar to build up in the blood and raises the risk of death from heart disease.
What is diabetes?
The number of SLAM affiliates.
What is 44?
Adding more of this as an active lifestyle change, can reduce your risk of heart disease.
What is physical activity?
The American Heart association recommends getting 150 minutes of this type of activity per week (or 75 minutes if you’re more vigorous).
What is moderate intensity activity?
Best for heart health, this category of fat includes monounsaturated fats and polyunsaturated fats.
What is unsaturated fat?
It is excess body fat and is linked to higher "bad" cholesterol and triglyceride levels and to lower "good" cholesterol levels.
What is obesity?
The number of OCONUS SLAM affiliates.
What is 7?
What is China? Followed by India, Russia, US, and Indonesia.
Even if you exercise for 30 minutes every day, doing this for prolonged period of time throughout the day may still increase the risk of death from cardiovascular disease and cancer.
What is sitting?
Abundant in healthy fats, fiber, and several micronutrients that are associated with cardiovascular health, eating at least two servings of this heart-healthy food each week lowered the risk of experiencing a heart attack or related problem due to coronary artery disease by 21%.
What is an avacado?
Women should have no more than one serving a day of this, because it can raise blood pressure levels and increases levels of triglycerides, a fatty substance in the blood which can increase the risk for heart disease.
What is alcohol?
The month and year SLAM Nation began.
What is September, 2011?