115/75 is the average blood pressure, says Mehmet Oz, MD, FACS. But what happens to average people? They die of heart disease. Don’t settle for average, he says.
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Oz was a keynote speaker at the recent Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) Annual Conference and Exhibition in Las Vegas.
The following are more of his tips for helping employees be healthy.
- If you don’t deal with obesity, nothing will work.
- Most people need 7.5 hours of sleep. (Five percent of people can get by with 6 hours, Oz says.) Sleep-deprived people crave carbohydrates.
- Weight is a good indicator of stress, Oz says. Your waist should not exceed half your height. (Men, Oz says, be sure to measure your actual waist; don’t use your belt size. As men gain weight, they don’t tend to buy longer belts—there’s just more and more belly that flops over the old belt. In fact, there is a “tight belt syndrome,” Oz says. Symptoms are relieved by loosening the belt.)
- Eat spicy foods.
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- Eat nuts. They are good for you and help you lose weight. Plus, you get a 15% discount when you eat nuts—typically, 15% of the nut isn’t digested.
- Go for 2% milk. Skim milk and diet soda seem like obvious parts of dieting, but Oz says you need to think like your brain. It knows it didn’t get the nutrients it wanted.
- A good stress reliever is putting a cork between your teeth.
- Make a stress reduction U-turn:
- Get back on track (with exercise).
- Automate to reduce the amount of decision making (morning is the best time for decisions).
- Give your heart a reason to keep beating.
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