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There are many angles and goals of physical fitness. However, there are five components of fitness that create a well rounded and truly “fit” person. If you concentrate on these five aspects you will find that your overall health and wellness improves. While focusing on one and not the others can provide benefits, your fitness potential isn’t truly realized until you are addressing all five.

The first of the five components of fitness is one that has often received the most attention, cardiovascular endurance. Exercise, particularly for women, has centered around cardio health for a long time. This refers to how well your heart and lungs work together to provide oxygen to the body, particularly during workouts.

The second in the five components of fitness is muscular endurance. This refers to how long your muscles can do a repeated action before tiring. Things that require repetitive movement like cycling and running are both cardio and muscular endurance activities.

Muscular strength is next in the five components of fitness. It’s obvious that this refers to the ability of the muscles to lift, pull, or maintain control over weight. Things like strength training provide good gains in muscular strength.

Often overlooked is the fourth in the five components of fitness, stretching or flexibility. Flexibility keeps the muscles loose and can prevent injury. Things like regular stretching, yoga, an pilates are good tools to use when trying to improve flexibility.

Last in the five components of fitness is body composition or the ratio of fat within the body. This is a good indicator of overall physical health and can also determine the risk of other diseases. By keeping your body fat within an acceptable range, you can ensure optimum health.

The five components of fitness are each unique and each provide you with health benefits beyond measure. By addressing all five aspects of fitness you ensure you are taking care of your body in a well rounded manner.

For the first time in the U.S., a blind woman’s sight was restored by fitting a plastic lens into a tooth from her mouth, and implanting the combination into her eye. The patient, a 60-year-old who had been blind for nine years, now has 20/70 vision that might further improve as she recovers from the surgery, according to the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, part of the University of Miami’s medical school, where the surgeries were conducted.

The procedure was developed in Italy in 1963 and has been used successfully in Europe and Japan, according to the Miami Herald. It’s a last-ditch procedure for people with problems with their cornea — where the lens would normally sit — because of trauma, corneal disease or scarring, but whose optic nerve and structures beneath the cornea are still healthy.

The patient’s eyetooth (as a canine tooth from the upper jaw is called)
was selected because it had a decent amount of jawbone and ligament attached, which are essential for the tooth to heal into the eye after implantation, notes the Herald.

“If there isn’t any infection, I’m optimistic we can preserve at least 20/70 vision for the next 10 years,” Victor Perez, a cornea specialist at Bascom, told the Miami Herald.

Sharron "Kay" Thornton, blind since 2000 has regained sight.

Have you guys ever wondered when, who, how & where the health technology has evolved? Even I was wondering and pulled this article it has helped me knowing about it better. I hope even you can brush over them!! Let me know if this has been useful!

Recent news says that The Obama administration unveiled $1.2 billion in federal grants for electronic health records systems on Thursday, the first wave of funding under a health-care reform plan to create vast records-sharing networks aimed at cutting costs and improving care in the coming decade.

You can find below the timeline/history of evolutions in Healthcare Technology 

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