Jupiter6
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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Near Media, Pa- South of Philly, NJ
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24.8
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07/16/2007
Surgery Date
Nov 16, 2003
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