One screening that may be less common among corporate health fairs, but is still important to your health is a liver panel. The liver is an organ in the abdomen which helps in many of the body’s tasks including: processing the body’s nutrients, making bile to help digest fats, producing proteins such as those that [...]
X-Factor Fitness Solutions Blog Archive for the ‘Matt’s Blog Spot’ Category
Know Your Numbers: Liver Enzymes
By X Factor Fitness Solutions Team on April 4th, 2011Understanding and Avoiding Upper Cross Syndrome
By Matt Trudo on March 15th, 2011Lets address one of the most neglected and important areas of the body: the shoulder joint. Overuse can occur through repetitive motions, as in swimming, or in static overuse — for example, the position held on a bike. What’s the result? Tight anterior and weak posterior musculature creates imbalances, poor posture, discomfort and possibly injury. [...]
Know Your Numbers: Blood Glucose
By X Factor Fitness Solutions Team on March 10th, 2011According to the American Diabetes Association, in the United States there are 18.8 million people diagnosed with diabetes, 7 million people undiagnosed, and 79 million people with prediabetes. In 2010, there were 1.9 million new cases of diabetes diagnosed in people aged 20 years or older in the United States alone. Having prediabetes can do [...]
Know Your Numbers: Lipid Profile
By X Factor Fitness Solutions Team on March 4th, 2011When you think about monitoring your heart health, checking for a healthy cholesterol number is definitely important, but it is more complicated than knowing just one number. The entire lipid profile includes: your total cholesterol, high density lipoproteins (HDL), low density lipoproteins (LDL), triglycerides, and total cholesterol to HDL ratio. Keeping these numbers in the [...]
Know Your Numbers: Body Weight, Body Fat, BMI and Waist to Hip Ratio
By X Factor Fitness Solutions Team on February 25th, 2011One number that people use most commonly to determine their health status is body weight. While this numbers is important to know, where one carries their weight will also affect their risk of developing certain diseases. When it comes to body weight, the numbers that you should know are: BMI, Body Fat Percentages and Waist-to-Hip [...]
