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Nutrition & Fitness
The benefits of exercise
Most people are aware of the stress release from proper exercise. Physical activity of any sort also...
- Helps build and maintain healthy bones, muscles, and joints.
- Helps control weight, build lean muscle, and reduce fat.
- Prevents or delays the development of high blood pressure and helps reduce blood pressure in some adolescents with hypertension.
Regular physical activity that is performed at least three times per week for 20 minutes reduces the risk of developing or dying from some of the leading causes of illness and death in the United States. Regular physical activity improves health in the following ways:
- Helps control weight.
- Reduces feelings of depression and anxiety.
- Helps build and maintain healthy bones, muscles, and joints.
- Helps older adults become stronger and better able to move about without falling.
- Promotes psychological well being.
- Helps reduce blood pressure in people who already have high blood pressure.
- Reduces the risk of developing high blood pressure
- Reduces the risk of dying prematurely.
- Reduces the risk of dying form heart disease.
- Reduces the risk of developing diabetes.
- Reduces the risk of developing colon cancer.
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