Exercise Affects Your Body and Your Brain

Everyone knows that exercise keeps your body in shape and does good for your health. Not only does lack of exercise affect your body forms but it also makes you lazy.

If you stay in one place for most of the day, your risk of cardiovascular disease is twice that of other people. If you sit down for more than six hours, increase your risk by 18% more toward diabetes, heart, and health disease than do people who sit for three hours.

So exercise really is an advantage for your health. Do not be surprised to see older ones exercise, or children walking to school. These elderly ones have proved to be less vulnerable to sickness and children who are more focused on learning than those who travel by car or bus.

Why?

Your brain is an tissue, and like any other tissue, abuse, lack of use, and especially age does their job. At about 20 years of age, the brain's share dedicated to learning and memory loses about one percent a year in total volume. So no wonder that the more we grow, the more we lose learning capacity.

But what is strange is that like your muscles, exercise affects your brain. So if you practice, you help not only your body but also your brain. Exercise can destroy neurons. Most exercise is recommended to be aerobic, such as running or swimming. A study showing that older people who walk at least 40 minutes each week improve their memory function. /blitz. al