The combination of healthy eating and regular exercise does not guarantee that you will live a long healthy life but it most certainly gives you a fighting chance.
Regular exercise or physical activity helps many of the body’s systems function better, keeps heart disease, diabetes, and a host of other diseases at bay, and is a key ingredient for losing weight.
Being physically active on a regular basis:
- Improves your chances of living longer and healthier
- Helps protect you from developing heart disease and stroke or its precursors, high blood pressure and undesirable blood lipid patterns.
- Helps protect you from developing certain cancers, including colon and breast cancer, and possibly lung and endometrial (uterine lining) cancer.
- Helps prevent type 2 diabetes and metabolic syndrome
- Helps prevent the insidious loss of bone known as osteoporosis
- Reduces the risk of falling and improves cognitive function among older adults
- Relieves symptoms of depression and anxiety and improves mood
- Prevents weight gain and promotes weight loss when combined with portion control and a healthy eating plan
- Improves heart-lung and muscle fitness
- Improves sleep
If you are feeling tired, confused, stuck and unmotivated let Santa Monica Nutrition and Fitness help you. We will lead you to a healthier and balanced way of living.