| The Importance of Physical Activity to our Physical & Mental Health   | 
        
        
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           Physical Activity helps our immune system prevent sickness,   | 
        
        
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           Physical Activity improved our            Vascular (Blood) System.   | 
        
        
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            Studies have shown.  that habitual physical activity is related to reduced   incidence of coronary artery disease (CAD).  | 
        
        
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          Higher Brain Function - Physical activity, especially walking  is especially good for your   brain, because it increases blood circulation and the oxygen and glucose that   reach your brain. Walking is not strenuous, so your leg muscles don't take up extra oxygen and   glucose like they do during other forms of exercise. As you walk, you   effectively oxygenate your brain. Maybe this is why walking can "clear your   head" and help you to think better. | 
        
        
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          Memory and Learning - Studies show that walking improve our memory and learning skills. | 
        
        
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          Heart - increased efficiency of our heart  and reduces the risk of heart disease
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          Breathing - increased efficiency of lungs,  | 
        
        
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          Cholesterol - Reduced cholesterol levels,  | 
        
        
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          Reduced            blood pressure,  | 
        
        
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          Diabetes - Reduced risk of diabetes and improves the diabetes symptoms - high blood sugar, and   foot ulcers.  | 
        
        
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          Waste removal -             Movement and exercise            increase breathing and heart rate so that more blood flows to the brain,            enhancing energy production and  waste removal. Studies show that in            response to exercise, cerebral  blood vessels can grow, even in middle-aged sedentary animals | 
        
        
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          Aging process - Studies have shown that exercise might be able to offset some of the mental declines that we often   associate with the aging process. | 
        
        
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          Mental State - Physical Activity causes the release of endorphins in our body which factions as our natural pain  relievers and responsible on our 'well being feeling'. | 
        
        
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          Physical activity creates antioxidants in our body that fix the  damage the free radical make in our body | 
        
        
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          Help in Weight loss –  Increase of the physical activity will increase the calories burning for faster  weight loss. | 
        
        
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          How Lack of physical activity deteriorated my physical  health!! - My Story | 
        
        
          | While writing  this web site I did not notice that I hardly move! After 3 months – all of a  sudden - my health deteriorated – I was so weak – I could not walk 100 m. I had  great pains in my foot – I feared thrombosis, and my digestive system had  collapsed (lactose allergy).  | 
        
        
          | I started to include physical activity in my daily  schedule and the symptoms gradually passed | 
          
        
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