Healthy Ideas

What Can Exercise Do For Me Anyways?

Exercise:

-decreases your appetite
-helps reduce the risk of heart attack
-helps control cholesterol

-reduces anxiety and stress (Someone I know who was a counselor once told me that he had a client that was very depressed. He talked to him for the counseling session and told him to be sure to walk every day. When the man came back in 2 weeks he had a totally different outlook on life. His depression was relieved just from walking each day!)

-relieves premenstrual blahs
-keeps varicose veins in check
-improves complexion
-reduces insomnia
-reduces the risk of osteoporosis
-controls the side effects of diabetes
-promotes a sense of well being

Did you know that exercise burns calories during the workout, but also boosts your metabolism so your body continues to burn more calories over the next few hours?

17 Random Health Facts

If you go to this site you can view all 17 Healthranker, but I’ll mention a few here:

- Motorists who talk on cell phones are more impaired than drunk drivers with blood-alcohol levels exceeding .08!

- Apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping people awake in the morning.

- Strawberries have more Vitamin C than oranges.

- You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.


7 ills that don’t need pills

Here’s an article that talks about 7 diseases/ailments that do not need pills to correct them. The ills listed are arthritis, cholesterol, cognitive decline, depression, diabetes, high blood pressure and osteoporosis. They certainly don’t recommend you stop taking medication without talking to a doctor. This article gives some insight into the power people have to help their bodies work as they are designed to work. Livescience


Great Quote

“None of us is perfect. It is better to have crooked legs than a crooked spirit. We can only do the best we can with what we have. That, after all, is the measure of success: what we do with what we have.”

From The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli