The essential elements to improve the health of your heart are diet, exercise, smoking and stress.
Sedentary Lifestyle More Harmfull Than Smoking
Lack of physical exercise and following a sedentary lifestyle is more dangerous for your health than smoking. According to a new study carried out by the University of Hong Kong and the Department of Health. Researchers looked at the level of physical activity in people who died and were able to correlate their level of physical activity with their risk of dying.
The results are interesting: 20% of all deaths of people 35 and older were attributed to a lack of physical exercise. That's more deaths than can be attributed to smoking. Looking at specific diseases, the risk of dying from cancer increased 45% for men and 28% for women due to lack of physical exercise. The risk of dying from respiratory ailments was 92% higher for men and 75% higher for women. The risk of dying from heart disease was 52% higher for men and 28% higher for women, all due to a lack of physical activity.
Physical activity gets everything moving in your body, the blood, the oxygen, the nutrients, the cellular respiration, the nervous system, etc. Sweating is good for you as well your body loses toxins and replace the lost liquids by drinking fresh, clean water. Physical exercise, if done outside, also exposes you to the healing effects of natural sunlight, an essential nutrient for the human body that is deficient in most people. Getting enough sunlight on your skin can prevent and even reverse an astounding number of chronic diseases such as breast cancer, prostate cancer, osteoporosis and more.
In conclusion you can see that physical exercise is extremely beneficial to the human body, and in fact the body won't live as long without it. Studies also show that it doesn't take an enormous amount of physical exercise to achieve health-preserving results. 30 minutes a day of walking, swimming, jogging, cycling or other cardiovascular exercise can have fantastic positive health effects.