Physical WellnessGet Your Physical Exercise Prescription Today!
Developing physical wellness is critical. Inactivity causes obesity, diabetes, heart disease, stroke, depression, and even accelerates the aging process. This is the short list. Resistance training, or any other physical fitness activity, helps not only our body, but our emotional health as well. What if your doctor gave you a prescription with the “dosage” for exercise—just like he does for medication? A few studies have been conducted on this very idea. In Spain, half of a group of 4,000 patients were given general advice to exercise, the other half got prescriptions to do so. Six months later, the Archives of Internal Medicine reported that those with prescriptions were more active. Other studies showed similar reports. It’s interesting that a piece of paper, “a prescription to exercise,” from a doctor is taken more serious than verbal advice. It might be a good idea to ask your doctor for your own prescription to exercise. Our bodies require a certain level of maintenance in order to function correctly. If you don’t have the habit of regular physical activity, begin now. Play with your kids. Play with the dog. Play with the neighbor’s dog! It’s important to just get moving. Take good care of your body. It’s the only one you get!
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