December 1, 2009
Exercise and Health (2)
2. Prevention to reduce muscle mass
It is very important for people to build up muscles especially in Japan because we have high rate of aging population. If people do not exercise, muscles reduce through aging and lower legs get weaken. And then old people have high risk to stumble and then to break bones. The third reasons for people over 65 to need nursing care is stumbling. Old people generally do not want their family or others to spare too much time for their nursing care. But in fact people receiving nursing care amount to 4.6 millions in Japan. We have to take some actions to solve this problem in rapidly aging society. We had better do exercise on a routine basis and reduce the risk at the old age.
