Exercise is the Key to Disease Prevention

Oxidation is the primary cause of aging & degeneration.It is the most penetrating process of decay on Earth.

Steel rusts,paint flakes,a cut apple get brown and meat rots. These are all examples of oxidation. Oxidation is caused by free radicals, unstable oxygen atoms, that causes the damage. Most damage to our bodies is also caused by oxidation, which is free radical attack. Ultra-violet light ages and decays our eyes & skin and air polutants damage our lungs by oxidation.

Many man-made drugs and chemicals tear your cells apart by oxidation. The main mechanism underlying cardiovascular disease and many cancers is oxidation.

But don't despair, you can beat oxidation. The new nutrition science can afford you lifelong protection.

The second cause of aging & degeneration is gravity. To combat gravity,you have to protect your skeleton and the muscles that hold it up. The human body is designed to be constantly active.Rest rusts.

Under the usual medical treatment, a broken leg put in a cast, loses most of its muscle. A third of its bone mass and stiffens almost to immobility. Confined to bed, the conventional solution to many illness, is an example of the worst kind of treatment.In six months bed rest, you accelerate bone aging by a decade, losing 25-40% of your bone mass, much of it irreversible.

The majority of skeletons and muscular systems of Mr. & Mrs. America degenerate pematurely, because of our sedentary lifestyle. Many of the degenerative changes, usually attributed to unavoidable aging, are caused by lack of exercise.

Inactivity causes a chain reaction of cardiovascular decay. Firstly, it reduces vital capacity, that means the ability to take up and use oxygen and muscles, organs and brain become partially oxygen deprived.

Secondly, inactivity reduces your ability of your heart to pump blood around the body. Your tissues get less oxygen and the essential nutrients from your blood.

As your body tries to make up these deficits, it causes your blood pressure to rise and constricts your arteries, increasing the risk of clots and stroke from a weakend heart. As a result, sedentary people often suffer dizziness, because the impaired system can't instantly increase blood flow to the brain and they are more likely to have falls and accidents.Surveys show that more sedentary people are killed in traffic accidents.

Inactivity also increases your cholesterol - and triglycerides levels. Inactive muscles shrink, compromising your ability to burn fat, to run upstairs and even to hold up your skeleton. Bones also thin and weaken. In order to grow new bone matrix, your skeleton requires continuous resistance exercise.

The combination of inactivity and pour bone nutrition is the major cause of the epidemic of osteoporosis, which is another man-made and totally preventable disease.

Inactivity also disrupts bowel function and disorders glucose metabolism, no matter what kind of food you eat.

Sex hormone levels also decline with inactivity. Male impotence has doubled in America since the 1940's.

Dr. Kenneth Cooper and his staff at the Aerobics Centre in Dallas followed 13,344 men & women for fifteen years. This particular painstaking research, taking into account factors like age, family history, personal health history, smoking, blood pressure, cardiovascular condition and insulin metabolism.

After fifteen years of closely monitoring these people, reduced risk of death was closely correlated with physical fitness. This included deaths from cardiovascular diseases, a variety of cancers and even accidents.

Without any doubt, exercise can save your life, while couch potatoism creates a nasty, sick and short existence. If there are still people who find it hart to believe that exercise directly prevents disease, the following strong points of evidence will convince those who are doubting.

Research proofs that exercise protects your body by maintaining vital capacity and as a result supplying adequate oxygen to the tissues. The average sedentary American male aged 45 has lost half his ability to take up and use oxygen. He can restore it to the level of a 25 year old with the right exercise.

Dr. Bortz correctly stated that the health benefits of restoring vital capacity are superior to any drugs or medical treatment. As a result of exercise, your resting heart beat can slow down to in the 40's. This underlines the statement of Indian yogis that your life span is determined by your total number of heart beats. The risk of coronary heart disease more than doubles if the heart rate gets above 84.

People with a blood pressure 120/80 are taken as normal, which in fact is not normal,only usual.These people are already half way to disease.

The risk of cardiovascular disease starts to rise as systolic blood pressure goes above 103 mmHg. By 135 mmHg, a level that is regarded by many physicians as marginal but still acceptable, the risk has doubled. Beyond 135 mmHg you are a walking time bomb.

This is also true for diastolic blood pressure.Recent research shows that levels of 80-89mmHg, usually found in average people, indicate a pre-disease state. Diastolic pressures of 80-89mmHg show an incidence of 40 cases per 1000, a 300% increase in risk of disease.

It's easy to reduce blood pressure, with the right exercise, below the 120/80 mmHg. Many research show that exercise works for older people as well. A group of people aged between 50 & 78, with sedentary hypertension and elevated blood pressure, dropped their systolic blood pressure by a whopping 20 mmHg after taking part in an exercise program. Regular exercise will lower blood pressure in almost anyone.