To maintain health, be like a shark

Daily physical activity substantially reduces the risk of early death. According to studiesModerate-to-Vigorous Physical Activity and All-Cause Mortality: Do Bouts Matter, The benefits there are even a few short periods of activity per day of 10 minutes or less. Annoying all tips to park farther away from the office and walk the stairs do not just work - they can save your life.

Movement postpones death. It is good for the heart, brain and waist. When people start to gain weight, often use age as an excuse. but although metabolism actually reduced by 10% with each decade, it is not associated with greater age and with loss of muscle mass.

People get fat not because of age, but because with age no longer move.

Lifestyle becomes more sedentary, muscles atrophy, the metabolism slows down, accumulates fat. Immobility weakens not only the body but also the mind. A physical activity, on the contrary, prevents depression and anxiety.

Sedentary lifestyle leads to a vicious circle of passivity. When you stop moving, you gain weight and feel more depressed. Because of this desire to move is reduced. The movement is given with difficulty, bring discomfort instead of pleasure. You fullness, decrepit, you cease to

enjoy life. All this is even more attracts you to the couch.

Physical activity creates opposite cycle. The movement supports mood, and muscle metabolism. The more you move, the easier it is to stay active. The body remains more taut, joints - more mobile, and the mind retains a positive attitude and motivation. You want to move and you enjoy doing it.

Rolling Stone is not overgrown with moss. Movable people accumulate less fat.

Compare MRI images quadriceps madeChronic Exercise Preserves Lean Muscle Mass in Masters Athletes scientists from the University of Pittsburgh. In the first muscle 40-year-old triathlete, on the following - the muscles of the two 70-year-old men, one of them leads a sedentary lifestyle, the other participates in triathlons.

Do not throw an active lifestyle. Imagine a bicycle, which is attached to the light: that it did not died out, all the time you need to pedal. It is the same with health.

Better yet, imagine yourself shark. Some species of sharks almost constantly need to be on the move, to breathe.

And people need to move in order to maintain the health of body and mind. Without traffic, you will die. Of course, not immediately, but slowly. But much earlier than with an active lifestyle.

Not necessarily every day to exercise. Walk up the stairs. Bring a suitcase in his hand, and not drive on wheels. During breaks at work or do the walk on foot several exercises. Move. Live.

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