Exercise and good nutrition work together to keep you healthy. Regular physical activity helps control your appetite and burns off calories to help lose extra pounds or maintain a healthy weight.
You need to burn off 3,500 calories more than you take in to lose one pound. If you want to lose weight, regular physical activity can help you in either of two ways.
First you can eat your normal amount of calories but be more active. For example a 200 pound person can keep eating the same amount of calories but decide to walk 1½ miles briskly every day. This will result in a weight loss of about 14 pounds in one year. Or second, the person could take the same brisk walk AND reduce the calories eaten every day by 250 calories and lose an extra 26 pounds in the year.
Exercise is Key to Disease Prevention
The truth is the cost of not exercising is pretty high. Physical inactivity is a major risk factor for the development of disease. The good news is that you don’t have to start running marathons to reap the benefits of disease prevention.
Regular exercise can:
- lower your blood pressure
- help you to cut down or stop smoking
- prevent diabetes or decrease the need for diabetes medication
- help you lose weight or stay at a reasonable weight
- raise your HDL (good) cholesterol
- maintain bone health
- reduce feelings of depression and anxiety
- help you sleep better
- promote a feeling of well being
- reduce risk of some kinds of cancerhttp
- http://www.lifeclinic.com/focus/nutrition/weightmanagementview.asp?artId=1798
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