Nutrition, Exercise and Your Health

A major economic trend in the US has been the continual rise of the cost of health care. Individuals are struggling with the increased drain on their budgets, as they balance their need to remain healthy with their available funds. Of the many solutions offered to help solve this problem, one is remarkably inexpensive, effective, and within the reach of all of us - living by Grandma’s words of wisdom to live a healthy lifestyle. In fact, recent studies by the Milken Institute show that following this wisdom can lower medical costs by up to 70 percent.

How Physical Activity Affects Health

Current experiments illustrate that as little as thirty minutes of moderately intense exercise each day can do the following:

• Improve heart and lung function
• Lower blood sugar
• Lift mild depression
• Ease and lubricate stiff joints
• Build strong muscles
• Help control obesity

In fact, this small amount of activity can not only build a healthy, strong body in the young, it can reverse disease in the elderly. This level of exercise is equivalent to a short walk or bicycle ride, an evening of social dancing, or time spent raking leaves and mowing the lawn.

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What is a Healthy Diet?

The other principle Grandma lived by was to eat a healthy diet, including lots of fruits, vegetables, and fiber. Scientists have shown repeatedly that a balanced diet lowers a person’s risk of developing obesity, heart disease, and possibly, cancer and diabetes. Such a diet would include:

• Unsaturated fat
• Whole grains
• Vegetables
• Fruits
• Lean protein

Exercise, Nutrition and Chronic Illness

People who have built and maintained healthy bodies tend not to develop chronic illnesses such as high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, coronary heart disease, and high cholesterol. If these diseases do strike, they are developed at a later period in life. These individuals are also less susceptible to complications from acute illness, such as the flu.

People who maintain their health through good diet and exercise often only spend medical dollars on preventive care. They tend not to need expensive prescriptions, tests, hospitalizations, or other treatments. Their health insurance premiums can be lower because they are not in high risk groups. While lowering their own medical expenses, they also lower costs for the population as a whole, because fewer of those expensive treatments are necessary.

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