Enjoy a Pressure-Friendly Active Lifestyle

There s a single element found in successful weight loss,cholesterol control, stress management, diabetes prevention, and blood pressure maintenance. It s something virtually everyone all over the world who has enjoyed a long life has in common, the factor that all medical authorities agree is essential for both quality and quantity of life. What is this snake oil that appears to be the cure for what ails you It s physical activity. 

On the other hand, most of the time I can t wait to get outdoors. I love to hike, ride a bicycle, ski in our local mountains, and, most 

There are many ways to stay lit and get the physical activity we all need for good health in general and good heart health in particular. Even if you re absolutely set against exercise, whether it s called physical activity or something else, and you define yourself as the ultimate sofa spud, please bear with me through this short chapter. To begin with, I can really relate to you. As a kid in elementary school in the fifties, I flunked the president s physical fitness test while almost everyone else passed. I was always the last one picked for any team sport. No, I am not now nor have I ever been an athlete with a natural attraction to fitness and exercise. 

To make matters worse, I went to college in the 1960s, a truly self-destructive era. No one exercised. If anyone was running on campus, you could assume that a cop was chasing him And after college I became a typical American sedentary office worker. 

When I had my heart attack and first bypass surgery in 1978 at the tender age of thirty-five, there was no such thing as cardiac rehabilitation and I got no advice about exercise. So if I did anything strenuous, I was scared that I d have another heart attack. 

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