Activity is important to maintain a healthy body and for protection
against all diseases. I refer to my article: “Benefits of Exercise”
When you are not sleeping your body was designed to be almost
continually active.
If you immobilize a limb for just three hours, it starts to degenerate.
That’s why even during sleep you automatically flex and stretch and
turn more than a hundred times in one night. Inactivity is deadly!

You can read this in a report by Dr. Walter Bortz in the Journal of
the American Medical Association in 1982.
He reviewed over a hundred studies showing that the sedentary lifestyle
developed in the last 50 years in America causes widespread bodily
damage. This damage occurs independently of other health risk factors,
like smoking, alcohol, fat, age and family history of disease.

Here follows some of his findings:
By itself, simple inactivity causes a chain reaction of cardiovascular
decay. First, it reduces vital capacity. That means, sitting like a slug
reduces your ability to take up and use oxygen.
As a result, muscles, organs, and brain become partially oxygen deprived.
In addition, inactivity reduces cardiac output, that is, the ability of your
heart to pump blood around the body.
So the tissues of couch potatoes become double deprived.
They get less oxygen and less blood and the essential nutrients the blood contains.
In an effort to make up these deficits, your body constricts arteries,
thereby raising blood pressure. This arterial constriction on top of
a weakened heart not only increases the risk of clots and stroke, but also
makes your cardiovascular system less able to respond to sudden movement
or changes of position.
Consequently, sedentary folk often suffer dizziness on standing, because
the impaired system cannot instantly increase blood flow to the brain.
With any sudden movements they are prone to falls and accidents,
because the restricted system of blood flow cannot respond efficiently.

Activity Can Save Your Life
One of the best studies was conducted by renowned exercise guru
Dr. Kenneth Cooper at his Aerobics Center in Dallas.
They followed 13,344 men and women for 15 years.
This meticulous research, controlled for all major interfering variables, like age,
family history, personal health history, smoking, blood pressure, cardiovascular
condition, and insulin metabolism.
At the fifteen-year follow-up, reduced risk of death was closely correlated
with physical fitness. This included death from cardiovascular diseases,
a variety of cancers, and even accidents.
There is no longer any doubt: activity can save your life, while couch
potatoism creates an existence that is nasty, sick, and short.

Activity: Protection against All Diseases
The right exercise is a major strategy for protection against all diseases.
Physicians who do not incorporate exercise into their treatment protocols are
guilty of malpractice.
The right exercise maintains your heart, lungs, your muscles, your bones, a healthy
level of body fat, even your intestinal function.
But what about more subtle functions, such as insulin, and your body’s handling
of sugar?
We know that couch potatoism leads to glucose intolerance.
However, research has shown not long ago that getting off the couch not only
maintains insulin function to deal with the sugar, but also can reverse decades
of damage. In healthy people the right exercise completely protects glucose tolerance
against the degenerative changes in insulin metabolism that lead to adult-onset diabetes.
Research has revealed the major way in which activity gives you protection against
all diseases. It started with evidence that exercise increases overall white blood cells.
Then came more precise findings that moderate exercise increases bodily production of
lymphocytes, interleukin 2, neutrophills, and other disease fighting components
of the immune system. There is no longer doubt that the right exercise strengthen
your immunity.

Remember the wise words of Louis Pasteur, the father of modern medicine:
“Host resistance is the key”.

Hence activity strengthens your resistance against all sorts of damage, decay, bacteria, viruses, toxins, even radiation and gives protection against all diseases. .

I can recommend one of the best exercise programs on the internet to obtain and improve
your overall health!