There is no shortage of research to back up the claim, that exercise is good medicine. Even 10 minutes per day can have a tremendous effect on our overall health and well being. Here are 20 proven benefits of exercise.
- Improve your mood and decrease depression
- Lower your risk of heart disease
- Strengthen your immune system so you’ll get sick less often
- Lower your risk for diabetes.
- Control your weight
- Decrease your risk of falls.
- Lower your risk of cancer, including breast cancer and colon cancer.
- Increase your energy and endurance.
- Reduce pain.
- Improve your memory and reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s disease.
- Strengthen your bones an muscles.
- Decrease your medical costs and need for medications.
- Help you stay flexible and limber.
- Decrease your bad cholesterol (LDL) and increase your good cholesterol (HDL)
- Reduce inflammation (anything ending in -“itis” is inflammation) Root cause for most chronic illness.
- Feel better about how you look.
- Decrease your blood pressure.
- Reduce the negative health effects of stress.
- Help you maintain independence.
- Increase your chances of living longer.
If there was a pill that would do all of that, with no negative side effects, would you take it?