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Exercise

We are created for action, and its impossible to be truly well without it! The adage "Use it or lose it" applies to every part of the body. Exercise provides greater vitality, extra energy, and longer life. Exercise is critically important to a total lifestyle approach to health. Here are some of the benefits of exercise:

	Excerise helps us feel good. It is so effective that it is a valuable tool for fighting depression and relieving anxiety and stress.
	Exercise increases energy levels, making us more efficent and productive in all that we do.
	Exercise helps one to reach and maintain proper weight. It burns calories, builds muscle, and increases the metabolism.
	Exercise stimulates the immune system. This decreases not only cold and flu infections, but also significantly reduces cancer mortality rates.
	.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 joints, and can relieve headaches.
	Excerise strengthens the bones, helping them retain calcium and other minerals, thus aiding in the prevention of osteoporosis.
	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.
	Exercise aids digestion and promotes intestinal activity, reducing gas and constipation.

Always check with your physician before staring a vigorous exercise program. Make exercise a daily part of your routine. You will need at least 30 minutes of exercise every day . If daily exercise is not possible try for three times a week on nonconsecutive days. Don't push yourself beyond your tolerance. Excessive exercise is not healthy.

Source: Radiant Living, Family Heritage Books