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Warning: Lack Of Exercise Is Detrimental To Your Health
You just put in a good 10 hour day in front of your computer
screen, and the last thing you want to do is exercise. Let's
see, exercise, and improve your fitness level, or sit down with
a glass of wine and watch your favorite evening television show.
What would you do?
Seventy percent of individuals know they should exercise, but
choose the wine and the television program instead.
Do you know this simple daily decision can end up being
detrimental to your health? According to the USCDC, 54.1% of
adults don't do the minimum level of exercise or physical
activity recommended for wellness. The slogan "use it or lose
it" has never been more true.
The simple innocent choice of not exercising has shown, in
studies, to promote 10 serious health conditions you don't ever
want to develop. The bottom line is physical inactivity has a
lot of unhealthy implications even at our bodies cellular level.
At the cellular level, inactivity decreases the ability to
transfer oxygen from your blood stream to your cells, and also
decreases the number of power activating mitochondria. However,
the worst cost of not exercising or being physically active can
result in the following 10 devastating conditions:
1. CANCER - Studies have shown that fitness enthusiastic men and
women who are physically active have a 30 to 40 percent lower
risk of colon cancer compared to individuals who are inactive.
2. DIABETES - Studies show lack of regular physical exercise
increases insulin sensitivity. Diabetes is considered the
"sedentary disease" which is striking people at an alarming
rate. If it is not controlled, it can destroy the body's organs.
3. HEART - Lack of consistent physical activity, over time,
decreases the function of the heart muscle, affects the blood
vessels, including the large aortic artery to the veins and
small capillaries. According to many studies, scientists have
good reason to believe that regular exercise protects the heart.
4. STROKE - Regular exercisers are 25% less likely to have a
stroke than their sedentary counterparts. Being fit lowers blood
pressure, raises HDL cholesterol, and reduces the risk of blood
clots.
5. BRAIN - People who are physically active, according to solid
evidence, are at lower risk for cognitive decline and dementia.
6. MUSCLES - If you don't exercise on a regular basis, you are
at risk of losing some 6 percent of your muscles mass every
decade of life from the age of 30 on. This also translates into
a 10 - 15 percent loss of strength per decade. Once again, if
you don't use the muscle, you will lose the muscle quickly.
7. OSTEOPOROSIS - Fragile bones cause more than 1.5 million
fractures each year in the U.S. Bone is like muscle, if you
stress it, it responds. If you don't, you gradually lose
its
strength, and increase your chances of breaking them. Regular
weekly strength training can help prevent osteoporosis, and
decrease your chances of breaking a bone.
8. MENTAL HEALTH - People who don't exercise on a regular basis
are more prone to develop depression. According to a recent
study, people who were more active were nearly 20 percent less
likely to be diagnosed with depression over the next five years
than less active people. Fitness conscious individuals also
generally display an improved self esteem, or self image.
9. WEIGHT - If you are inactive, year in and year out, you will
eventually gain weight and lose fitness which increases the
chance of a heart attacks, and diabetes.
10. IMMUNE SYSTEM - Moderate amounts of exercise reduces the
risk of upper respiratory infection. Regular exercise may boost
immune function.
Now I would like to ask that same question I asked above. What
would you do? Wine and television, or physical activity?
Now for the good news! In as little as 30 minutes of exercise or
fitness work each day, you can significantly decrease your
chances of developing any of these horrible conditions mentioned
above. This is the best "medicine" any doctor can possibly
prescribe!
I hope I have encouraged you to become more physically active
today, and beyond. Your quality of life depends upon it.
Consider these the most important words you will hear today!
Remember, you have a choice. Make the fitness choice.
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For information on how to develop a fitness program which
delivers twice the results in half the time, visit Wellness Word
Multimedia Newsletter at
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nutrition promotion company. Jim is the author of a well known,
world wide multimedia newsletter called Wellness WORD, published
online at www.WellnessWord.com .
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