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Exercise does more than just make you look good. The health benefits are endless. A consistent exercise schedule has proven to be a key player in disease and injury prevention. A healthy lifestyle can improve your body as a whole. Cardiovascular System: Respiratory System: Hormonal Response: Muscular System: Skeletal System Learn about proper nutrition to help support your workout efforts! Nutrition is just as important as moving so make sure to eat properly so you can get the most out of your workouts! Check out what the research is saying... A report by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows that regular physical activity helps promote funtional recovery following brain and spinal cord injury. Physical activiy stimulates the injured neurons in the brain to regenerate their connectors to the nervous system. * The Mayo Clinic HealthSource states that just 10 minutes of physcial activity at a moderate intensity daily can help those who suffer from depression and anxiety. * Researchers at Harvard found that men at the highest level of cardiovascular fitness were four times less likely to develop prostate cancer than those at the lowest level of fitness. Physical activity is believed to reduce testosterone which plays a role in prostate cancer.
* The University of Missouri researchers found that muscle cells of people who engage in prolonged aerobic activity are able to breakdown triglycerides, AKA artery-hardening fat, more efficiently than those who were less conditioned. * In a study done in Finland on 2,ooo adults, those who were obese in middle age were 3.5 times more likely to develop Dementia than those of normal weight.
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