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Exercise isn’t just to help you lose weight and stay fit.  It also helps you stay healthy and your organs stay healthy.  Here are a couple articles that discuss this.

Exercise Helps Kidneys

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – You may know this already, but here’s more proof: Leading a physically active life yields multiple health dividends, according to four studies published today in the Archives of Internal Medicine.

One study suggests that physical activity may help keep the kidneys of older adults in tip top shape, while another hints that a combination of a healthy waist size, not smoking, and aerobic fitness protects against heart disease and premature death.

A third study provides some of the first evidence that colon cancer patients who are physical active lower their odds of having their cancer recur. While being physical active is known to help prevent the development of colon cancer, few studies have determined its effect on colon cancer survivors.   –more

Prevent Disease With Exercise

Exercising is a great way to keep yourself in shape and feeling good. It’s also a great way to stay healthy. America is quickly becoming more and more obese and it’s no wonder with all the fast food restaurants popping up all over the place and the busy schedules that keep folks out of the gym. But, stop and think about what a large number of deaths occur every day due to heart disease and cancer. It’s sickening to think that perhaps a large number of these deaths could have been avoided by proper nutrition and exercise.

It’s not to say that exercise will guarantee you will never get sick or that you will live forever. But, it will keep your body healthier than it would have otherwise been without exercise. Type 2 diabetes is caused by improper eating and usually results when a person is overweight. Left unchecked, this disease can cause heart attacks and strokes. Exercise can prevent this. You can actually improve heart functions and lower your blood pressure by following a regular exercise program.

Many people have linked exercise solely will looking good and some people convince themselves they don’t need to exercise because they are not so vain that they need a perfect body. However, exercise is much more than skin deep. It is what will help us all live long, healthy, and full lives. It is what can help keep us out of nursing home when we are elderly and keep us young looking and feeling. It is the key to burning off stress and promoting happiness and wellness.    –more

Related Exercise benefits articles

• Physical Activity May Prolong Survival After Colon Cancer (nlm.nih.gov)
• Exercise Important in Teens’ Blood Pressure Control (nlm.nih.gov)
• Staying limber leads to a longer life, study says (nationalpost.com)

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Exercise and a healthy diet are amazing.  My wifes grandmother has been a diabetic for much of her adult life.  We got her on a healthy diet and she not only lost weight, but no longer needed insulin shots.

Exercise: A Natural Insulin Booster

Everyone knows that exercise is good.Many people don’t get around to doing the daily exercise they know they should, but they know that it would be good for them.However, exercise also has direct and idirect benefits for those who are trying to control their blood sugar levels?

The most apparent way that exercise helps blood sugar problems is by promoting weight loss. If you are overweight, then losing weight will increase your metabolism, which helps sugars be processed more efficiently.Another benefit is that it will lower your insulin resistance, allowing your body to properly use the sugars it already has.The catch is that since these are indirect benefits of exercise, they might not work for every person.If you don’t have any excess weight, losing weight won’t help you.

However, that leads directly into the second benefit of exercise, increased metabolism. Even if you don’t have a problem with weight, exercising will help build up your metabolism, which will allow your body to use the sugars and insulin in your bloodstream more effectively. The higher your metabolism, the faster your body burns through energy, giving you more options for blood sugar control and decreasing your chances of developing diabetes. Not to mention that you’ll probably feel better all around.    –more

Boot Camp Workouts Why Boot Camp Exercise Programs Are Fantastic For Fat Loss

Lately BootCamp Exercise Programs have become all the rage in small towns, large gyms, and even anywhere outside where a group of exercise enthusiasts can get together and train. I’m not talking about enlisting and joining the Navy to get a boot camp workout. I’m talking about structured classes ran by a teacher that puts you through a full body workout.

It differs greatly from traditional aerobics work outs because the exercises are more demanding working the upper and lower body muscles giving a complete exercise routine and abs workout. The fast pace of a boot camp exercise routine allows for a great cardio workout and super fast fat burning.

So why are these catching on so speedily? I’ll tell you why. It’s because they are super effective and people see results. The dilemma with traditional aerobics work outs are that the body gets very efficient at the exercises and through the constant rep and same workouts it learns to metabolize much less energy. It’s nearly impossible for the body to adapt to boot camp style exercise routines because of the endless exercise selection stressing multiple muscle groups and stabilizers.    –more