Health Fair

May 31, 2009

This is the REAL stuff. I'm not a WOW moment person, but this is why I am really here.

We had our employee health fair today and they screened for everything in the universe. How'd I do?

Cholesterol: In 1986-- it was 247
                    In 2003-- it was 233
                    In 2007-- it was 177
                    Today---- it was 151
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Blood pressure:
                 2006: 120/80
                 Today: 101/56
The tech responded:"Wow, and you teach middle school?"
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Resting heart rate:
                 2006: 78 bpm
                 Today: 48 bpm
Different tech: He said, "Are you a runner? We usually only see resting heart rates like that in runners."
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Osteoporosis Risk:
                Last year: not absorbing my calcium or Vitamin D
                Today: Bone mass measures -0.5-- at LOW risk for osteoporosis
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Circulation:
                Previously: Obesity caused Chronic Venous Insufficiency
                Today: Arterial Elasticity Index of 22 ----Index goes from 0-220, 0 being good,
This tech said, "This is the second highest I have seen all day! You're so lucky to have such a healthy body, most people would pay to have numbers like that." And I was the last person today-- of probably 60-80 people :)
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Body Composition Analysis: (Using Tanita TBF300A)

               Total Body Water: 64% (Ideal is between 45-60%-- I'm NOT dehydrated!)

               Weight 2007- 368 pounds
                         Today- 156 pounds

               Percentage of body fat: 12.2%
 
                            Now  this is weird, and very very low, (desirable range is 23-34%)  but the people 
                            before and after me were dead on. The tech was baffled, but I assumed 
                            maybe the extra skin and drinking more threw it for a loop. 

                            The tech said, "Huh. It does that when we measure athletes, not teachers."
                                  
                            Coinicdentally, one of the people before me is 3 years post gastric bypass     
                            and she doesn't exercise-- and she had a typical result.
      
                             So I go to the Tanita site-- and it says:

• Tanita defines "athlete" as a person involved in intense physical activity of approximately 10 hours per week and who has a resting heart rate of approximately 60 beats per minute or less. I exercise about 9-10 hours a week-- and my resting heart rate is 48. So maybe, MAYBE...I'm an athlete so I skewed their machine. I told ya-- I have a lot of muscle! Who knows?

                 Basal Metabolic Rate: 1448 kcal
                 (My RMR was tested at 1680 when I was a tad larger so that makes sense.)

                                                            Crazy stuff, huh?

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