There is a chance you are already aware of the importance of Exercise and ‘staying fit’ for keeping your weight in control. But the benefits of exercise are far more than this!

1. Benefits of Exercise
Why Exercise Everyday?

2. There is a chance you are already aware of the
importance of
Exercise and ‘staying fit’ for keeping your
weight in control. But the benefits of exercise
are far more than this!
According to the U.S. Surgeon General’s Report
on Physical Activity and Health, inactive people
are nearly twice more likely to develop heart
disease than active people. This is true, even if
you have no other conditions or habits that
increase your risk for heart disease.
Why Exercise Everyday?

3. “Exercise not only improves heart and
muscular fitness, but also lowers the
levels of blood related risk factors such
as cholesterol and BP. Also, exercise has
mood lifting impact as well”

4. Exercise helps by decreasing the risk of
developing
• Type 2 diabetes
• Blood pressure
• CHD (atherosclerotic heart disease)
• Some forms of cancer (breast and colon
cancer)
• Mental health :exercise improves, mood,
quality of life and some research shows that it
helps in people with depression
Importance Of Exercise For Healthy Individuals:

5. The physical conditioning achieved by regular aerobic
exercise decreases heart rate and blood pressure at rest and
at any given level of exercise.
Aerobic exercise training programs can result in modest
decreases in blood pressure, particularly in persons with
high blood pressure. There is also evidence that exercise has
favorable effects on insulin resistance, blood sugars levels
and blood clotting. In people with high BP and high blood
cholesterol, exercise also reduces C-reactive Protein, which
is a marker of inflammation in the body and of risk of CHD.
Improves Blood Pressure and High Blood
Cholesterol

6. Exercise Helps In Obesity, Diabetes and
Metabolic Syndrome
In obese people, a major cause of health problems including
including metabolic syndrome and diabetes (or pre-diabetes)

7. Exercise improves insulin
sensitivity and thereby
reduces blood sugar
and HbA1c levels, BP,
cholesterol etc. and may
reduce the need/dose of
drugs.

8. • Building up and maintaining muscle
mass
• Loss of body fat, especially abdominal
fat
• Maintaining bone mass
Exercise Helps in Reducing Weight Loss and
Gaining Muscle Mass
All the above benefits of aerobic exercise, have been
found to be true for resistance exercises as well, in
addition resistance exercise can help in:

9. Let’s understand different type of cancer and how exercise
help in cancer :
• Colon cancer risk and exercise:
Many studies have consistently found that adults who
increase their physical activity reduce their risk of
developing colon cancer (cancer of large intestine) by 30 to
40 percent relative to those who are sedentary, regardless of
their BMI or body weight.
It is estimated that 30 to 60 minutes of moderate to
vigorous physical activity per day is needed to protect
against colon cancer
Exercise Helps in Reducing Risk of Cancer

10. • Breast cancer risk and exercise :
Most studies indicate that physically active women have a
a lower
risk of developing breast cancer than inactive women.
However,
the amount of risk reduction achieved through physical
activity varies widely (between 20 to 80 percent). The
benefits appear to be maximum in moderately or vigorously
vigorously active adolescent girls and in adult women with
with normal body weight!

11. Exercise improves mental health by reducing anxiety,
depression, and negative mood and by improving self-esteem
and cognitive function.
This influence is probably mediated by the communication of
the HPA (hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal )axis with several
regions of the brain, including the limbic system, which
controls motivation and mood; the amygdala, which generates
fear in response to stress; and the hippocampus, which plays
an important part in memory formation as well as in mood and
motivation.
Exercise Improves Mental Health

12. Exercise Enhances Mood
Health benefits from regular exercise that include the following
following effects on enjoyment of everyday life:
• Improved sleep
• Increased interest in sex
• Stress relief
• Improvement in mood
• Increased energy and stamina
“Therefore, it is good to start exercising early in your life, so that
that you keep the diseases at bay and are fit to deal with life in
in best possible way!”

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