8 ways exercise helps beat disease

Need proof that exercise is the best way to stay healthy? Here's how it helps prevent, and treat, disease
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It brings down blood pressure - 8 ways exercise helps beat disease Adapted from 30 Minutes a Day to a Healthy Heart, Reader's Digest

It brings down blood pressure

Physical activity flushes out your arteries, cleaning them and keeping them clear and supple. In a recent study of more than 500 men and women aged 40 to 60, researchers found that physical activity is inversely related to the progressive buildup of plaque in the carotid arteries. Even people who played golf or gardened just a day or two a week had clearer arteries than those who did no leisure-time activity.

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Thats a bunch of BS. MY husband is a most physically active person I have ever known. He works physically, hunts, hikes and chops wood and is active all day long but he has a high cholesterol and plaque all over his blood vessels. He just had a quintuple coronery bypass at age 75. Being active didnt help at all. They actully find now that being lazy and relaxing a lot is better for us.

 
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