HEALTHWARE FOR ATARI PROGRAM N°. 0991 0004 EAUH ASSESSMENT How are your current health practices affecting your life expectancy? Answer the crucial questions for building a healthy life- style. Can you and your family add to your life expectancies with new health habits? 0 05003 6 HEALTH ASSESSMENT / DATABAR SOFTWARE HEALTH ASSESSMENT™ / DATABAR SOFTWARE HEALT H WARE HEALTH ASSESSMENT LIVING LONGER How we live almost always deter- mines how long we live. A mountain of statistics bears that out. According to the statisticians, the average length of life today is 73 years. Compare this to only 47 years, the average at the turn of this century. We've added 26 years to the average since 1900 by arresting many infec- tious or acute diseases like polio, smallpox and tetanus, and by other means. Will we add another 26 years to the average by 2060? Researchers think not. Even though there are chronic diseases like cancer and heart disease that may be less and less prevalent in the future, the impact of this on the average length of life for all of us prob- ably will not be dramatic. Why? Because the nature of the human body is such that our cells will only regen- erate so many times, and we are approaching the maximum fixed aver- age length of life now. So how do we alter our own course to insure we get the maximum length of life our bodies will give us? The obvi- ous answer is to alter the way we live. Consider this: One recent study indi- cates that 78 percent of the nation's hospital patients could have stayed home if they'd followed better health practices. Another study, this one in Massachusetts, indicates that 43 per- cent of us eat too much, 33 percent still smoke, 28 percent don't exercise at all, and 12 percent misuse alcohol. With this Health Assessment ™ you can evaluate your own health behavior and how it affects your potential for long life. Health Assessment ™ is based on a 1973 study by Nedra Belloc and her colleagues at the Human Population Laboratory of the California State Department of Public Health. Belloc and colleagues identified seven health habits that influence our chances of liv- ing a long, healthy life. They included: sleeping seven to eight hours a night; eating a full breakfast each day; limit- ing between-meal eating; maintaining ideal weight; scheduling regular exer- cise periods each week; limiting alco- hol consumption to two drinks a day; and not smoking. Health Assessment ™ lets you make use of one of the strongest features of your home computer — the ability to Desirable Weights (Medium Frame) Desirable weights for men 25 years of age and over* Height with shoes on (1-inch heels) Feet Inches 5% Under Median Weight 20% Over 5 2 117 124 148 5 3 121 127 152 5 4 124 130 156 5 5 126 133 160 5 6 130 137 164 5 7 133 141 169 5 8 138 145 174 5 9 142 149 179 5 10 145 153 184 5 11 150 158 189 6 0 154 162 194 6 1 158 167 200 6 2 162 171 205 6 3 167 176 211 6 4 172 181 217 Desirable weights for women 25 years of age and over* Height with shoes on (2-inch heels) Feet Inches 5% Under Median Weight 20% Over 4 10 96 102 122 4 11 99 104 125 5 0 102 107 128 5 1 105 110 132 5 2 107 113 136 5 3 110 116 139 5 4 114 120 143 5 5 117 123 148 5 6 121 128 153 5 7 125 132 158 5 8 129 136 163 5 9 133 140 167 5 10 136 144 172 5 11 140 148 177 6 0 144 152 182 *Weight in pounds (in indoor clothing) play “what if' games. Once you've run the program, run the questions again and change one of your health habits to see how this affects your life span. Here are the habits that may have the greatest impact on your results. Smoking : In our quiz, answer yes to the question, “Do you smoke?" if you smoke one or more cigarettes a day. Exercise : In our quiz, we consider “regular exercise" to be activities you engage in several times a week. Sleeping : In the Belloc study, men who slept eight hours a night did bet- ter than those sleeping less. Women who slept seven hours a night did best, but sleeping a little less wasn’t as bad for women as for men. Program Instructions ■ Load the program into your computer with OSCAR. Then type “RUN.” (Refer to your User’s Manual if you have difficulties.) ■ Indicate your sex by entering “M” or “F”. ■ Answer questions by pressing “Y” (yes) or “N” (no). ■ Use the accompanying tables when the com- puter asks about your weight. ■ Run the program again after the computer has figured out how much your lifestyle has stretched (or shrunk) your life expectancy. Sim- ply change one answer to see how any single fac- tor can affect you. Databar Magazine wishes to thank Nedra Belloc, The Journal of Preventive Medicine and Academic Press, Inc., for their support in pre- paring Health Assessment ™ . Our thanks also to Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. for the use of its weight tables. This publication is designed to provide accurate and authoritative information on the subject covered. It is sold with the understanding that neither the publisher nor the author is engaged in rendering health, medical or other profes- sional advice. 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