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10 Easy Steps to Better Health and a Longer Flying Career

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Key Takeaways:

  • Pilots can significantly extend their flying careers by adopting small, preventative health changes to avoid career-ending diseases.
  • Key dietary recommendations include limiting red meat and dairy, consuming more leafy greens, drinking water instead of soda, and practicing mindful portion control.
  • Increasing physical activity through simple daily habits like taking stairs, walking more, or trying a yoga class, along with quitting smoking, are crucial for long-term health.
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It’s never too late to make changes to prevent diseases that may end your flying career. And becoming healthier doesn’t mean you have to make major changes. Here are some tips on what you can do today to keep yourself in the air for years to come.

1. Take the stairs instead of riding the elevator.
2. ** Limit red meat and dairy products.
**3.
Consume more leafy greens.
4. Wear UV-blocking sunglasses.
5. Stop eating before you’re full.
6. Walk to the grocery store or park from the far end of the parking lot.
7. Try a yoga class.
8. If you smoke, stop.
9. Drink water instead of soda.
**10. ** Actively work with something you love after retirement.

Pia Bergqvist

Pia Bergqvist joined FLYING in December 2010. A passionate aviator, Pia started flying in 1999 and quickly obtained her single- and multi-engine commercial, instrument and instructor ratings. After a decade of working in general aviation, Pia has accumulated almost 3,000 hours of flight time in nearly 40 different types of aircraft.

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