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En Espanol: Colesterol

Colesterol y Cómo Está Afectada por el Estrés (o:  el sobrecargo de esfuerzos?)
 
He medido de todas mis señas vitales, incluyendo el colesterol, desde hace años.  He visto lo que el estrés (o sobrecargo) puede hacer con mis niveles de colesteról y a los niveles de colesterol en otras
personas.
 
Mis experiencias personales con el estrés y niveles elevados del colesterol
 
El estrés y su efecto en los niveles del cholesterol:
 
Cuando estaba entrenando muy duro en un esfuerzo de competir en las Olimpiadas de 1984, mi colesterol total andaba como a 135 con la grasa buena (HDL) eso siendo en la zona alta.  Cuidé mi dieta pero no como fanático porque todo parecía estar funcionando bien en esa área de mi vida.  El estar involucrado en el atleticismo en si, no está totalmente compuesto de duchas calientes y masajes; es como tener otro trabajo tiempo completo, y a veces puede causar problemas en la vida.

Mis niveles de estrés se elevaron en mi hogar y mi colesterol subió
también.  Un salto de 35% es mucho, pero quedaba en la zona segura y se rebajó cuando mi hijo menor y yo eramos los únicos de nuestra familia todavía viviendo en Hawaii.  A los 44 años, era soltero y hubiera sido la persona más mayor del equipo EU.  Desafortunadamente para mi, eso no iba a ocurrir, pero así es la vida.
 
Carreras de bicicletas, competencias "triatalones" (en donde uno hace competencias con bicicletas, carreras, y natación) y una persona que comprendió la dieta mejor que yo entró en mi vida, y mi nivel del colesterol rebajó a 142.  A través de los años y al ser menos probable los días de correr 100 millas en bicicleta, mi colesterol subió tentamente hasta mediados de los 150’s.  Después de salir de Hawaii y mudarnos  a Oregón, mi esposa y yo aceptábamos el deber de cuidar a mi Mamá.
 
Mi Mamá había estado viviendo sola en el norte de California y al
salir del hospital le habían dado seis meses de vida.  Nos explicaban que ella tendría que vivir en un hogar para pacientes con Alzheimer’s. 

Antes de su decaída en Alzheimer’s, mi Mamá y yo habíamos hablado largamente sobre sus deseos, y uno era de no meterse en un hospital para ancianos.  Estábamos viviendo en la costa, y después de mudarnos, ella vino a vivir con nosotros en el este de Oregón.
 
Después de un cambio de dieta y a ayudarla a ser móvil otra vez, vivió otros 10 años.  Después de que mejoró de su salud, los primeros 7 años mas o menos, era capaz de mantener su propia chequera e ir al pueblo con nosotros de compras.  Pasó buenos y malos ratos, pero, si la pudimos mantener fuera del azúcar, las dulces y otras comestibles que no son buenos para la salud, y que ella compraba a escondidas, se mantuvo relativamente sana.  Ella también se obsesionaba con los bichos y hechaba pesticidas por todos lados.  Los últimos tres años fueron más intensivos.  Su último año de vida fue hechado a perder debido a que toda su vida se había dedicado a comer azúcar.  El azúcar, la comida no nutritiva y los productos químicos alcanzaron a ella, tanto como el osteoporosis, el cáncer y Alzheimer’s.
 
Cuidar a otro es un trabajo difícil.  No solamente son las largas
horas físicamente onerosas con 24/7 siendo el trabajo de semanas y meses; si se trata de un miembro de la familia o un íntimo amigo,
también causa estrés mental y emocional.  Mi cholesterol y algunos
otros señas vitales aumentaron a un nivel más alta o baja, dependiendo de cual dirección era lo peor, hasta el presente y tambíen los de mi esposa.  Mi Mamá falleció en noviembre de 1999.
 
Al principios del verano de 2000, necesitaba tomar un viaje para
mitigar/complacer ambos cuerpo y cerebro.  Había pasado los primeros tres meses del 2000 en un frenesí tratando de acabar de terminar nuestra casa que había estado construyendo los últimos tres años. Antes de partir, consideraba que debía tener un exámen físico.  Como resultó, todo había devuelto a los previos niveles sanos y se ha mantenido estable, o se ha mejorado, desde entonces.
 
Traductora: Maya
 

Larry Miller: I was born in Los Angeles in 1940. My father was a fighter pilot instructor during WWll and we moved from coast to coast, maybe that’s where I got the nomad in my blood. After graduating from high school in 1958 I joined the Marines. That lifestyle wasn’t for me and upon my discharge I went on with my life, and have never looked back. I worked briefly for a Caterpillar dealer in Riverside, CA before moving back to N. California where I was a welder and truck driver for a chemical company. Truck driving wasn’t my calling anymore than being in the Marines, and I went back to work for another Caterpillar dealer steam cleaning dirty tractor parts and welding. They sent me to schools, lots and lots of schools. I spent as much time going to trade schools as I did at work. I went from cleaning parts to apprentice field mechanic, to mechanic to the parts department to satellite store manager in less than two years. They wanted me to move to Sacramento and be a salesman: I moved to Oregon to learn to commune with nature. I went to work for another heavy equipment dealer and was later contacted by the World’s largest Lorraine Crane dealer and offered the position of purchasing agent and general parts manager. In 1967 I was offered a line of automotive parts and supplies and went into business for myself. My business revolved around eleven race cars that we maintained for others, driving race cars professionally and maintaining high end sports cars. I was a championship and regional champion driver. My business was the largest import parts and service, non dealer, in the state until I sold it in 1979. We went sailing in 79, first to Mexico and then Hawaii. I was an award winning Trans-Pacific sailor and sailor of the year, Hawaii, Island of Kauai. An opportunity presented itself in Hawaii during 1981 and I was back in business, importing Japanese auto body and hard parts. I also felt the pull to write and began freelancing for magazines and newspapers in 1982. My main focus in my articles is, and always has been, health, wellness and fitness. Most of us have heard the saying, “Time is all we have.” I disagree. Our health is all we have, because without our health, we have no time. I was a US Olympic team hopeful in racewalking and held all the records for the state of Hawaii. As a sponsored athlete in my forties, I finished first in nine marathons in a row in my division, qualified for the Ironman® and was the state USCF cycling champion five times in Hawaii and Oregon. Celinda and I were married in 1988 after a three year engagement. We sold our businesses and organic farm and sailed back to Oregon. After our sailboat boat was sold, we moved to Joseph, Oregon, two miles from the trailhead into the Eagle Cap Wilderness. We were caregivers for my mother the last ten years she was alive. We moved to New Mexico in 1995 because it was too cold for my mom in Oregon during the winters. Celinda designed, and I engineered and built our strawbale house. I began writing the weekly health column for a local newspaper in 1996, and still do. In 2000, I took the summer off to do a four month, 4000 mile, hike, bike and kayak odyssey. I’d been writing health, fitness and sports articles since 1982 and the journey produced a full-length, nonfiction, first person adventure book, Yol Bolsun, May There Be A Road, which can be bought from Amazon.com and others over the Internet. The summer of 2001 was spent hiking. kayaking, fishing and exploring the southwest. In 2002 Celinda and I spent the summer in Canada learning the hospitality business at a resort in preparation for doing promotion for the resort in the US. Most of 2003 was spent reestablishing the trees and landscape that had died during the stay in Canada. We had a house sitter and the house sitter had an ex-husband, and that’s a long story. In July of 2004 I did a solo kayak trip on the Snake River, taking pictures, writing articles and pencil sketching the journey. I hope to do another kayak adventure on the Snake River during the summer of 2008, on the section I missed in 2000 and 2004. In 2005, I returned to Canada to the resort where we’d spent 2002. I was supposed to be there for the month of June. I’d contacted people I’d met in 2002 and they came back to Canada to fish, hike and spend time at the resort, Echo Valley Ranch and Spa, while I was there. My one month became five and then it was off to Spain to do the El Camino de Santiago as a travel companion with one of the guests who’d returned to Canada in June. During the summer of 2006 a friend from Ireland, who I’d met in Spain the year before, came to visit in NM and we fished, hiked and explored the White Mountains of AZ. He’d never slept out in the wild in a tent before, and it was quite an experience, for both of us. My newspaper articles were put on the Internet beginning in 2002. I was asked to give public speaking engagements, photo and video presentations, on various subjects for the library in Deming, NM and continue to do so. In 2006 I videoed and produced a DVD for the Smithsonian Institute’s travel exhibit “Between Fences.” NMFILMS had a conference by invitation only, which I attended. While attending the conference, I realized that film making wasn’t what I wanted to do but I still wanted to use my sixteen years of experience and enjoyment of videoing and photography. During the winter of 2005, I discovered that no one on record had ever run from the Arizona border to the Texas border, a distance of 165 miles. During the spring and summer of 2006 I trained for the run and the run was completed in October, 2006. In late 2005, I began building and maintaining websites incorporating all the things I enjoyed about video, photography, travel and the out of doors. 2007 has been a summer of upgrading the home and property which resulted in a downgrading of my enthusiasm for being located in one place. If we don’t like what’s happening in our life, we need to change what we’re doing. Celinda and I are ready to pull up roots and move on. I guess I’ve come full circle. I’m ready to revert back to my childhood, and a nomadic lifestyle.
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