Great Things To Know About Exercise

Jun 11
07:30

2014

Samantha Knowles

Samantha Knowles

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Another great thing about exercise is that it can keep your body healthy. Kids who exercise often have a healthier body weight than kids who don't exercise. Exercise makes your bones solid, improves your heart and lungs, and makes your muscles strong.

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Kids who exercise often have a healthier body weight than kids who don't exercise. Exercise makes your bones solid,Great Things To Know About Exercise Articles improves your heart and lungs, and makes your muscles strong. Exercise can also affect specific diseases that affect adolescents and teens. New research shows that teens who exercise regularly (about 60 minutes of brisk exercise each day) burn more calories and use blood sugar more efficiently than teens who don't exercise. This could protect you from developing type 2 diabetes. Why should this concern you? Well, in recent years, a lot of health problems that doctors saw only in adults are now seen in young people.

For example, 15 years ago type 2 diabetes was rare among adolescents, but now it accounts for almost 50 percent of new cases of diabetes in young people. In fact, type 2 diabetes used to be called 'adult-onset diabetes,' but the name was changed because so many young people were developing the disease. Here is something else to consider: children and adolescents who are overweight are more likely to become adults who are overweight. If you start good habits (like daily exercise) when you are young, you will be likely to continue them when you're older. New research shows that exercise during the teen years (beginning at age 12) can help protect girls from breast cancer when they are older. Also, regular physical activity can help prevent colon cancer later in your life. The more time you spend in front of the television or playing video games, the less time you have to be active. Not being active is called sedentary (say: sed-un-tair-ee). Leading a sedentary lifestyle can cause weight gain and even obesity (dangerously high weight), which can lead to type 2 diabetes, high cholesterol levels, and high blood pressure. These three health issues can hurt your heart and make it easier for you to get certain diseases. Make physical activity a regular part of your life.

It can help you protect your health! Obesity can also hurt your self-esteem, too.Lots of different ways of getting exercise like; Running, Walking, Jumping, Gym, Cardio, Cross fit, Obstacle Courses, Sports and Playing. Our bodies need exercise in order for us to function correct, it stimulates the brain and helps with oxygen in the blood. Some of you do not have sufficient time to train well your diet can assist you with this, remember in Chapter 1, It was mentioned that for total Fitness of 100% that the Diet is 70% and Gym 30%. Water, water and one more time water, our body needs this to clean itself. Water has always been an important and life-sustaining drink to humans and is essential to the survival of most other organisms. Excluding fat, water composes approximately 70% of the human body by mass. It is a crucial component of metabolic processes and serves as a solvent for many bodily solutes