Building Muscles Is Strong Medicine
The best way to keep Father Time or Mother Nature from stealing your skeletal muscles is to exercise regularly Without regular strength-promoting exercise, the average adult loses about one-half pound of muscle every year after the age of 25, while gaining fat weight. Low-intensity workouts are an excellent way to tone muscle and derive numerous health benefits.
Benefit #1: Muscle is the body’s major fat burner. Not only does it primarily burn calories while being exercised, it continues to consume a small additional amount of calories for several hours after a workout while recuperating and rebuilding.
Benefit #2: For older folks, stronger muscles are linked to better balance and reduced risk of injury from falling.
Benefit #3: Keeping muscles strong helps support joints and wards off injuries. This is especially true for helping to prevent back injuries.
Benefit #4: Building muscles through weight training has the added bonus of helping prevent osteoporosis by increasing bone density.
Pumping Iron
Weight training is the best way to build muscles, and you don’t have to join a health club or gym to see results. You can use light hand weights to train the upper body and ankle weights for the lower body.
Combining weight training with aerobic exercise such as walking, jogging, or biking provides a total body workout, which may reduce blood pressure and decrease your risk of diabetes, and coronary heart disease. People who exercise regularly also have a lower incidence of breast and colon cancer.
Emotional Energizer
Besides toning your body, exercise also can bolster your emotional well being. It improves mood, lowers tension and anxiety, and promotes restful sleep. Aerobic training gives you more energy and stamina because it improves the muscles’ ability to extract and use oxygen from the blood for generating energy. This allows your muscles to do more work with less effort and gives you more pep for your daily routine.
Don’t think you can fit an endurance exercise routine into your busy schedule? If you cannot exercise for 30 minutes straight, then try breaking it up into small segments. Working out in 10 – minute segments three times a day delivers many of the same health benefits as a 30 – minute continuous session. You also only need to do strength training two to three times a week to increase muscle mass and strength.
Warm up by stretching before exercising. Rest a day between strength training sessions.
PSORIASIS
My son suffered with adult on-set Psoriasis for ten years. His body had to always be covered. Even in the heat of the summer, he would wear long sleeves.
My son went to several dermatologists and was prescribed many medications. Nothing worked. I suggested he try Vitacel 7 (iGH7). Both my husband and I use it and continue to experience good health.
After my son took the Vitacel 7 (iGH7), his psoriasis gradually started to disappear. Finally, he is now psoriasis free.
Another health regime that both my husband and I use is Dr. Koch’s sprout drink, which he wrote about in NEL’s newsletter. The drink is delicious and we really like its nutritional benefits.
Mary Prieto
