Welcome to the Not Old Better Show. I'm your host Paul Volkozang and this is episode

number 203. Today's show is part of our Fitness Friday series and it's another great Fitness Friday

program.

We've got some excellent Fitness Friday news from the American Heart Association

about the sad fact of today's exercise attitudes.

And our guest today is with Extreme Skier, Kristen Ulmer.

You're very likely aware of who Kristen Ulmer is,

and this is an exciting interview on a subject.

We all know probably too much about fear

Kristen Ulmer will join us in just a moment, but first

Our Fitness Friday News

The not old Better Show Fitness Friday News.

Today's Fitness Friday News falls under the sad category of,

Come on people. I don't mean to sound overly dramatic or in any way

discouraging and that I somehow have all the answers, but again, come on people. The American Heart Association reports in a new study this week about high blood pressure

That treatment preferences are more likely to not include daily exercise, but to take a pill or drink a cup of tea.

Researchers wanted to find out how people weigh the benefits of high blood pressure treatment

options against its inconvenience.

They asked survey respondents to imagine that they had high blood pressure and then

asked about their willingness to adopt any of four treatments to gain an extra month, year, or five years of life.

In this survey, the treatments proposed were a daily cup of tea, exercise, pills, or monthly

or semi-annual injections, a shot.

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