Exercise is not Optional: Your Life Depends on It!
Exercise is not Optional: Your Life Depends on It!
If regular physical activity didn’t make your list of New Year’s resolutions, add it now. Your life depends upon it.
Sedentary lifestyles count as a major risk factor for chronic illnesses such as heart disease, diabetes, and osteoporosis (brittle bones). A 2010 study found that, compared to women who spent fewer than three hours a day sitting, those who sat six hours or more were 34 percent more likely to die.
The remedy is simple: Move. The benefits are plentiful.
• Muscles increase in size, gaining strength and endurance. You have the energy to enjoy dancing, hiking, cycling, skating, and sledding with friends.
• Body weight is easier to maintain. Because muscle uses lots of fuel, the rate at which you burn calories increases.
• Bones thicken under the influence of weight-bearing and resistance exercises (working against weights, bands, or your own body weight), which reduces the risk of osteoporosis. To stimulate bone, do weight-bearing and resistance exercises
• Joints become more flexible when moved through their full range of motion. Strengthening the muscles around joints protects them and eases arthritis symptoms.
• The health of heart, lungs, and blood vessels improves with aerobic exercise—the type that uses big muscles and increases your pulse and respiratory rate to the point you can talk but not sing.
• Exercise protects against stroke and cardiovascular diseases such as high blood pressure, atherosclerosis, and heart attacks. It lowers LDL (“lousy”) cholesterol andelevates HDL (“good”) cholesterol.
• The nervous system functions more optimally. Mood, attention, learning, and memoryimprove. Aerobic exercise seems to reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s disease and vascular dementia.
• Exercise relieves stress and anxiety and aids recovery from depression.
• Moderate daily exercise improves nighttime sleep and reduces fatigue, even in energy-zapping conditions such as cancer.
• The immune system benefits with moderate exercise.
• Exercise increases tissue sensitivity to insulin, the hormone that ushers blood sugar inside cells. For that reason, the risk of type 2 diabetes declines.
• Exercise also increases growth hormone, which stimulates growth, cellular reproduction and regeneration, and maintenance of muscle and bone.
• The digestive system perks along better. Constipation becomes less likely. Symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome improve.
• Exercise reduces the risk of some cancers.
• Lastly, regular physical activity extends your life. Research has shown that people who follow federal guidelines for physical activity reduce their risk of dying by 25 to 35 percent. more
If regular physical activity didn’t make your list of New Year’s resolutions, add it now. Your life depends upon it.
Sedentary lifestyles count as a major risk factor for chronic illnesses such as heart disease, diabetes, and osteoporosis (brittle bones). A 2010 study found that, compared to women who spent fewer than three hours a day sitting, those who sat six hours or more were 34 percent more likely to die.
The remedy is simple: Move. The benefits are plentiful.
• Muscles increase in size, gaining strength and endurance. You have the energy to enjoy dancing, hiking, cycling, skating, and sledding with friends.
• Body weight is easier to maintain. Because muscle uses lots of fuel, the rate at which you burn calories increases.
• Bones thicken under the influence of weight-bearing and resistance exercises (working against weights, bands, or your own body weight), which reduces the risk of osteoporosis. To stimulate bone, do weight-bearing and resistance exercises
• Joints become more flexible when moved through their full range of motion. Strengthening the muscles around joints protects them and eases arthritis symptoms.
• The health of heart, lungs, and blood vessels improves with aerobic exercise—the type that uses big muscles and increases your pulse and respiratory rate to the point you can talk but not sing.
• Exercise protects against stroke and cardiovascular diseases such as high blood pressure, atherosclerosis, and heart attacks. It lowers LDL (“lousy”) cholesterol andelevates HDL (“good”) cholesterol.
• The nervous system functions more optimally. Mood, attention, learning, and memoryimprove. Aerobic exercise seems to reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s disease and vascular dementia.
• Exercise relieves stress and anxiety and aids recovery from depression.
• Moderate daily exercise improves nighttime sleep and reduces fatigue, even in energy-zapping conditions such as cancer.
• The immune system benefits with moderate exercise.
• Exercise increases tissue sensitivity to insulin, the hormone that ushers blood sugar inside cells. For that reason, the risk of type 2 diabetes declines.
• Exercise also increases growth hormone, which stimulates growth, cellular reproduction and regeneration, and maintenance of muscle and bone.
• The digestive system perks along better. Constipation becomes less likely. Symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome improve.
• Exercise reduces the risk of some cancers.
• Lastly, regular physical activity extends your life. Research has shown that people who follow federal guidelines for physical activity reduce their risk of dying by 25 to 35 percent. more
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Thanks Raja Sahib. True. If only humans could understand the signals given out by the body and take timely action, most nursing homes and hospitals would not be doing this thundering business! more
Jun 02
DOING SHAV ASAN AFTER THE EXERCISE SHOULD BE A PART OF REGULAR ROUTINE. IT WILL PROVIDE THE NECESSARY REST TO BODY. IF TOO TIRED, YOU MAY FALL INTO SLEEP DURING THE SHAV ASAN. ONCE YOU ADOPT THE EXERCISE ROUTINE, YOU MAY NOT LIKE TO TAKE OFF DAYS. I HAVE SEEN PEOPLE WALKING AS PER ROUTINE, EVEN IN HEAVY RAINS AND STORMY WEATHER. more
Jun 02
