There are four main types of exercise that are recommended for seniors:

Endurance activities – Activities like walking, swimming, or riding a bike build stamina and improve the health of the heart and circulatory system.  Studies have prompted the American Heart Association to also recommend resistance training as a way to reduce risk of heart disease and as therapy for patients in cardiac rehabilitation programs.

Strengthening exercises –Activities to build muscle tissue and reduce age-related muscle loss.  Strengthening exercises increase the strength of your muscles, maintain and build bones, improves your balance, coordination and mobility. The health benefits far outweigh the risk of injury, a concern that prevents many elderly people from adding more physical activity to their lives.  Strength training can also have a great effect on reducing falls, the number one cause of death in the elderly.

Stretching exercises - Activities to keep the body flexible.   Muscles trained through vibration exercise not only get stronger but also improve flexibility and mobility. When you stretch, the muscle tissues warm up and increase blood circulation and flexibility. When your muscles receive highly oxygenated blood, the time required to obtain a certain level of flexibility is dramatically decreased.

Balance exercises- Activities to reduce the chances of a fall.  As people age, poor balance and flexibility contribute to falls and broken bones. Resistance exercises increase flexibility and balance, which decrease the likelihood and severity of falls.

Performing these exercises on a Whole Body Vibration platform can increase these results and help you achieve them in less time.  Any exercise that can be done on the floor can be done on a vibration platform.  Whole Body Vibration aids in faster muscle growth, better flexibility, better blood circulation, reduction of sore muscles, improved balance, even healing injuries.

• Improving employee health
• Reducing preventable health care utilization and lowering health care costs
• Enhancing work performance/ productivity
• Decreased absenteeism
• Improving employee satisfaction and retention
• Reduce Injury and Workman’s compensation claims

The White House’s proposed 2011 budget was released, which includes plans to reduce childhood obesity rates by budgeting $1 billion to improve children’s access to healthy meals, and include $10 million in a federal employee workplace initiative to implement prototype wellness programs.

The plan includes increased federal funding for workplace wellness programs, programs for schools that address childhood obesity, education for healthcare employees, and “individual and community initiatives to help Americans make healthful choices.”

Employee wellness programs are an excellent way to help defray the rising cost of health care. In addition to cost-savings, employers who provide wellness programs report improvements to worker productivity and retention, as well as improving the working environment.

Whole Body Vibration (WBV) allows the equivalent of 60 minutes of conventional exercise to be achieved in just 10 minutes.  It is so effective; three 10‐minute sessions a week are enough to make a considerable difference.  Whole Body Vibration is perfect for loosening up your entire body and relieving stress. Standing on a WBV platform even for just a few minutes will supercharge all the cells in your body and give you energy to continue working. 

This is why many corporations are including WBV equipment in corporate fitness centers.  Because WBV is safe, fast and highly effective, it’s become a great solution for boosting employee health.

Vibration exercise is much more effective than conventional exercises. Workout times can be drastically shortened – you can accomplish the same results in 10 minutes what would take you 60 minutes with conventional exercise. This is true because WBV requires your body to constantly respond to the rapidly moving platform beneath you.  Whole body vibration increases circulation, blood flow and oxygen intake.  WBV also reduces cortisol (the stress hormone) and creates and releases endorphins.  It also detoxifies the system, enhancing relaxation.   

Standing on a whole body vibration platform even for just a few minutes will supercharge all the cells in your body and give you energy to continue working. This is why many corporations are including WBV equipment in corporate fitness centers. Because WBV is safe, fast and highly effective, it’s become a great solution for boosting employee health.

There are many different types of settings that you can find Whole Body Vibration (WBV).  Fitness centers, senior centers, and physical therapy offices just to name a few.   One of the most common places for Whole Body Vibration to be used is a Chiropractic office.  The benefits of WBV compliment Chiropractic specialties tremendously.  Chiropractors are known for natural treatments, not just spinal adjustments.  They are able to use WBV for rehabilitation purposes and offer it as a fitness option adding to their services.   

As the popularity of Whole Body Vibration grows so will the places you can find it.   

Here is one of many doctors implementing WBV.

We are looking for donations to help purchase the supplies, so we can load the plane with as much as possible.  Family members of The Vitality Depot and a Red Cross official will personally assure that the items reach the right people for maximum effect.

The airplane will land in Cap Haitian, and from there the medical supplies will be taken by the local Rotary Club to the facilities of the Doctors without Borders and the food and blankets will go to the Red Cross in Haiti.  This has all been arranged through extraordinary efforts of our Vitality Depot family.

100% of your donations will go directly to this effort and The Vitality Depot will transfer the funds on your behalf.  All support staff has volunteered for this.  Your support goes directly to help the Haitian people.
We expect to take off on Wednesday morning to provide immediate assistance.  The Vitality Depot will front the support, but we need your assistance to fill the plane.  Please help us to assist the Haiti community in this time of dire need.

I am personally asking you to assist us with this effort.  Here’s how you can donate:

• Call us at 866-941-8867 and pay the donation by credit card or pledge a check.  If you are getting this after hours and we don’t answer, please leave a message.

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• Email us at info@TheVitalityDepot.com with your pledge.

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• Visit us online at make a pledge at The Vitality Depot Haiti Relief by clicking here.

Please act now because the plane is literally taking off Wednesday morning and we want it to be full!  Thank you for your help with this and please share this message with all those people that you know.

With heartfelt appreciation,

Mark Mandell, DC, MBA

President

The Vitality Depot

The lymphatic system, much like the blood vessels and arteries in your body, runs all over the body.  This system is a complex one, and has three main missions. It carries away excess fluids in the body, it carries away fat and fatty acids to the circulatory system for removal, and it is the central part of what most people call “the immune system.” Obviously the lymphatic system’s health is vitally important to overall health.

The lymph system is generally stimulated by movement of the body.  The reason that clusters of lymph nodes are located in the arm pits, the groin, and other constantly moving areas is for that reason. As we age we become less active, and the normal stimulation needed by lymph nodes to pump lymph fluid around the body, filter it, rejuvenate it, and attack biological intruders is not as effective.  It is one of the reasons that older people are more susceptible to illness.  But there is a way to deal with this challenge.

Using Whole Body Vibration stimulates the lymphatic system.  It causes immune response in the lymph nodes, giving the body better defenses against illnesses.  It causes the lymph system to drain more efficiently, getting trapped fats and biological intruders on their way out of the body through the circulatory systems filters.  In short, the vibrations of the WBV cause dozing lymph nodes to wake up and do the work they are intended to do, especially in the aging body where lymph health is even more vital to overall health.

• Increase the lifespan, or improve the healthspan, of all Americans by 29+ years;
• Slash healthcare costs, saving $3.7 Trillion; and
• Replace the disease-based approach to medicine with a wellness-oriented model

A comprehensive program to reform and advance healthcare in the United States, The A4M Twelve-Point Actionable Healthcare Plan: A Blueprint for A Low Cost, High Yield Wellness Model of Healthcare by 2012 has garnered support from 35 professional medical organizations and educational institutions and was developed with invaluable input from the 24,000 physician, health practitioner, and scientist members of the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine (A4M; www.worldhealth.net) who represent 110 nations worldwide.

Today, Capitol Hill debates a $1.65 trillion, 10-year plan to overhaul the nation’s failing healthcare system.  The majority of the plan focuses on how to pay for health insurance, rather than formulating a comprehensive plan of action of reform itself.  The Twelve-Point Plan submits that the underlying philosophy of healthcare in this nation must be reformed in revolutionary new ways.  As reported by the Congressional Budget Office, up to one-third of this nation’s healthcare spending — more than $700 billion — does not improve Americans’ health outcomes.

Anti-aging medicine is biotechnology joined with advanced clinical preventive medicine.  Adoption of the anti-aging medical model delivers the best of advanced preventive medicine to all Americans, not just our older population.  The Twelve-Point Plan offers new answers by urging the adoption of a technology-based, wellness-oriented healthcare model for America.

The A4M Twelve-Point Actionable Healthcare Plan provides practicable “here and now” solutions to reform and advance healthcare in the US, while addressing the challenges of global aging.  Indeed, the implementation of The A4M Twelve-Point Actionable Healthcare Plan: A Blueprint for A Low Cost, High Yield Wellness Model of Healthcare by 2012 may save our society a projected $3.64 Trillion in healthcare costs, and extend the healthy lifespan of each of our nation’s residents by up to 29 productive, vital years.

Complete references, supporting data, and projections may be viewed at:
http://www.waaam.org/twelve_points_summary.php.