Fitness
A Brief Overview of the Benefits of Exercise
- Lowers blood pressure
- Increases cardiac efficiency
- Lowers risk of heart failure
- Helps maintain weight loss from dieting
- Improves fitness and stamina
- Improves balance and flexibility
- Lowers risk of falls and injury
- Increases bone density- wards off osteoporosis
- Improves alertness and cognitive function
- Slows progression of dementia
- Lowers BMI, waist circumference and abdominal fat
- Improves self-esteem
- Lessens depression symptoms
- Improves sexual function
- Improves sleep pattern
- Raises HDL
- Lowers LDL, triglycerides
- Helps control blood sugar in diabetics
- Increases insulin secretion
- Lowers CRP and IL-6 (inflammatory markers)
- Improves arthritis pain
- Lowers risk of “reflux” complications
- Lowers risk of cancer
- Improves survival after breast cancer diagnosis
