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EXERCISE
We are created for action, and it is impossible to be truly well without it! Exercise provides greater vitality, extra energy, and longer life.
1. Exercise helps us feel good. It is effective in fighting depression and in relieving anxiety and stress.
2. Exercise increases energy levels, making us more efficient and productive in all that we do.
3. Exercise helps one to reach and maintain proper weight. It burns calories, builds muscle, and increases the metabolism.
4. Exercise stimulates the immune system. This decreases not only cold and flu infections, but also significantly reduces cancer mortality rates.
5. Exercise enhances circulation, which in turn improves memory and mental ability, and promotes better sleep and faster healing. It decreases the pain and stiffness of osteoarthritis by delivering blood to the joints, and it can relieve headaches as well. Exercise strengthens the bones, helping them retain calcium and other minerals, thus aiding in the prevention of osteoporosis.
6. Exercise helps protect from heart disease by strengthening the heart, decreasing blood pressure and heart rate, and lowering LDL (bad) cholesterol while raising HDL (good) cholesterol.
7. Exercise aids digestion and promotes intestinal activity, reducing gas and constipation.