{"id":12535,"date":"2019-01-30T11:35:39","date_gmt":"2019-01-30T16:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=12535"},"modified":"2019-01-30T11:35:39","modified_gmt":"2019-01-30T16:35:39","slug":"boot-camp-after-60-10-steps-to-turn-around-unhealthy-habits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=12535","title":{"rendered":"Boot Camp After 60: 10 Steps To Turn Around Unhealthy Habits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Bruce Horovitz for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>It takes moxie to flip an unhealthy lifestyle to a healthy one \u2014 particularly for folks over 60.<\/p>\n<p>Most baby boomers approach retirement age unwilling to follow basic healthy lifestyle goals established by the American Heart Association, said Dr. Dana King, professor and chairman of the department of family medicine at West Virginia University, referencing his university\u2019s\u00a02017 study\u00a0comparing the healthy lifestyle rates of retired late-middle-aged adults with rates among those still working.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/boot-camp-after-60-10-steps-to-turn-around-unhealthy-habits\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20First%20Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=69429595&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8HGHV_nJPNRfVIaVtx50BmabuZ6DolCOZVWGGyZ5hitut0PApKxvlaCE6FTCcoxQ_cMtZkQJf941mZNLu3dd4VpYZUJw&amp;_hsmi=69429595\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: #444444; text-transform: none; line-height: 1.6; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; word-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-stretch: inherit; background-color: #ffffff; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit;\">Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. 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