MOVE more, feel better

Movement is by far the best medicine I know.

Which health problems can physical activity help address? Here’s a sampling: heart disease, dementia/Alzheimer’s, certain cancers, osteoarthritis, depression, type 2 diabetes, prediabetes/metabolic syndrome, fatty liver, hypertension, high cholesterol, autoimmune disorders, ADHD, sleep apnea, anxiety, asthma, menopause symptoms, low-back pain, erectile dysfunction, stress and more.

The biggest health threat we face isn’t cancer or heart disease. It’s low fitness. A sedentary life-the life more and more of us are living-promotes many diseases. A growing body of research shows that low fitness cause more premature deaths than smoking, obesity, and high blood pressure.

But it’s not the number of years we live; it’s the quality of those years that matters, not just the lifespan but in late 2004, researchers found that the average health-span gap-the difference between our longevity and our years of healthy life-was 12.4 years. That’s more than 15 percent of our lives spent in deteriorating health.

~Courtesy of Dr. Jordan D. Metzl…Adapted from PUSH