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Healthy Answers – A Guide To Healthy Living:

‘The Magic Of Exercise!’

By Dale Brown, B.S., For example, the phone app, FitOn, offers opportunities to Why does exercise make you feel good mentally?
M.A., C.E.C. Dale is a work out anytime, anywhere, and promises you will never You feel energized due to the release of endorphins,
motivational speaker who get bored trying a large range of workouts. which trigger a natural high. Serotonin, dopamine and
has spent many years as a Making lifestyle choices that are within your control are norepinephrine are mood-enhancing chemicals that flood
Certified Life Coach and has some of the best things you can do to help prevent disease and your brain during exercise. This mood high lasts for a
written numerous articles retard aging. Although studies document the link between a couple of hours after exercise and longer, depending upon
and e-books relating to self- healthy diet as a prevention of age-related disease, exercise your level of exertion.
improvement and ways to is right up there as a key ingredient to turning back the clock. Your mental sharpness increases due to the flow
build a high-performance Regardless of age, exercise is one of the best anti- of blood and oxygen to your brain. After a workout
team. She is the author of aging things you can do for yourself. I like to think of your brain operates on all cylinders, activating growth-
the recently published book, exercise as magic because that’s the way it works. Once stimulating proteins, which help new brain cells to form.
“Small Steps...Big Changes: you get into it, everything changes. You feel better about By now, I hope you’re ready to throw on your gym
The Personal Stories of a Life Coach.” Her education and how you look, and it makes it easier to resist that piece of clothes and sneakers and head for the gym. If you haven’t
years of experience in physical fitness and training of chocolate cake. If you don’t believe me, hear what experts worked out for a long time, take it slow. Check with your
elite athletes has enabled her to sharpen her knowledge say about the health benefits of getting fit. It might be doctor before you begin a fitness program, just to be on
in many health-related areas. The following introduces the incentive you need to get up and get moving. the safe side. You may have to redefine your fitness goals
a new approach to Brown’s series of columns devoted to What are some of the anti-aging health benefits of based on your age and physical limitations--but you can
many topics that deal with the mind/body connection and exercise? do it!
the importance of living a healthy lifestyle. Dale, a Bocaire People who are physically fit have better telomeres— Exercise is known to be every bit as good as
resident, can be reached at dalebrown@lovingmondays.com. the DNA that protects chromosomes from damage— prescription drugs to reduce depression and lift your
During the next 20 years, a total of 80 million thereby slowing down the aging process. Exercise has spirits. Whether you’re a member of the boomer
Americans born from 1946 to 1964 will make up the aging been proven to significantly reduce your risk of cancer generation or not, don’t wait. Exercise is a lifestyle choice
generation. This may not mean much to the younger set, and other chronic diseases. you can easily make that will prolong your life and lift
but if you are one of the iconic group of people known Exercise boosts your immune system by elevating your your spirits. Do yourself a favor and start now. You’ll be
as a baby boomer, you know they do not take the aging level of immunoglobulins, proteins that help fight infection. happy you did!
process lightly. Right at this very moment, boomers are It’s been known that every sweat session you do can help
looking for ways to look and feel younger than their years. strengthen your immune function for about 24 hours.
What can you do now to improve the quality of your life? A vigorous workout is more beneficial than a brisk walk Your ad
One way is to move your body! My mantra has always because it lowers your LDL (bad) cholesterol levels and
been, “activity is better than no activity.” Even when you lowers blood pressure up to 16 hours after just one workout
awake in the morning and feel the stiffness in your joints, session. The more you exercise, the more it may lower your could be here!
getting up and moving will help you feel better. The blood sugar level, thereby reducing your risk of diabetes.
importance of increasing blood flow through stretching, Exercise helps with weight management. For every 100
walking and deep breathing livens up all your senses. calories you burn while active, you continue to burn 15 after Call
The idea of exercising today is very different and has you stop. If you cut 500 calories a day through exercise and
evolved over the years. Some may remember belts that follow a healthy diet, you could drop one pound a week. 561-746-3244
went around the waist and hips that shivered and shook off Your muscle endurance and strength increase the
unwanted pounds. (Okay, maybe not!) Today, there are all longer you continue to exercise. After four weeks of
sorts of activities to help motivate people to exercise. It’s regular workouts, you begin to lose flab and build muscle,
not hard to choose one that suits your mind, body and spirit. and your heart pumps more efficiently.