In the magazine for the week of the Union Doctor’s paper in Sweden, one topic quickly caught my attention, and it’s about “Physical Activity both as Prevention and Treatment”.
So, I read chosen parts of the magazine, specifically about this topic.
Then there are articles stating the different things physical activity is good for, which I’m gonna share with you below:
1. Physical activity can help with the factors of metabolic syndrome better.
Metabolic syndrome is when you have conditions that occur together, which then increases your risk for heart disease, stroke, and type 2 diabetes.
The cluster of conditions we’re talking about are the factors, and they include high blood pressure, high blood sugar, excess body fat around the waist, and abnormal cholesterol levels. If you have all of these or at least 3 of these together at the same time, then that is a metabolic syndrome – but with the right amount of physical activity, the factors are said to become better.
2. Physical activity helps with migraine.
If you’re one of the people who always get migraines but don’t wish to or are not allowed to take prophylactic meds that help with the headache, then it’s said that engaging in regular physical activity is a great alternative.
3. Lifelong physical training is recommended to keep your physical capacity.
Increasing your physical capacity will always do you good, and it’s recommended to do rehab for your heart first to gauge your current capacity by doing some kind of pre-exercise screening so that you know your strengths and limits and be able to slowly increase it as you continue.
4. Physical training helps survivors of heart attack patients.
Once you have rehabilitated your heart and have a cardio clearance from your Doctor, and you already have gauged your capacity – you can lessen the risk of a repeat heart attack in the future.
5. Physical activity can help with chronic obstructive lung disease and lung fibrosis
There is a connection between high physical activity and fewer exacerbations. Being active physically lessens chronic lung disease problems.
It doesn’t prevent cancer in case you’re wondering – but it does help you feel so much better and keeps you in a much better state longer.
6. Physical activity helps with depression and anxiety
One short boost of physical activity gives positive effects on you mentally by bumping the production of your brain’s feel-good neurotransmitters – endorphins.
Additionally, it gives great effects on your blood pressure, your blood sugar, your sleep, your cognitive function, and your anxiety.
ALL MOVEMENT COUNTS
A little physical activity is better than nothing at all.
So move more and sit less. If you have a job where you sit a lot, you just get up and bounce around as much as you can. Again, all physical activity counts, and it doesn’t matter what you do.
Cleaning, gardening, going up and down the stairs, whatever it is – just move.
Get up every now and then, that counts.
Health care plays a very key role in promoting physical activity. And it hasn’t really been doing that too much before – as instead of promotion of health and prevention of diseases, it’s really been more about treating the diseases that are already there – and books like this are a great reminder.
Sometimes I, as a doctor, just tell my patients that my prescription for them is that they take thirty minutes of workout every day. Aside from it preventing a handful of diseases, it’s such a great thing too for stress management, which is very important in maintaining and promoting general health as well.
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