Does Exercise Really Make You Healthier?

Many people workout for various reasons such as: to lose weight, become healthier, or just to become more active. Mostly everyone has worked out sometime in their life, but when we workout do we ever think how it is affecting the body? How exercise can not only make us stonger, but help prevent us from various diseases? Most people when they workout don't think of these things. While some people think exercise makes you healthier, others think there is no purpose to exercising. This article shows some benefits to exercising. Exercise is good for the heart and blood vessels. Exercising lowers the risk for heart disease in many ways. When a person exercises, their heart is pumping faster casing more blood to be forced through the arteries. This forceful pumping causes changes in the autonomic nervous system that controls the contraction of the heart. Thus leads to lower resting heart rates which in return lowers the risk of cardiovascular diseases. Exercise also heightens the cardiovascular health by decreasing the plasma triglycerides, fatty molecules in the
blood that are associated with plaque build-up in the arteries. Exercise reduces low-density lipoprotein, bad cholesterol, and increases the amounts of high-density lipoprotein, good cholesterol, which occurs as less artery clogging. Exercise also lessens the risks to some cancers. Physical activity affects your body weight, said Albanes a researcher. Leaner people have lower circulating levels of insulin. People who are overweight develop insulin-resistance where the cells no longer respond to glucose, a primary energy source. When this happens, the pancreas produces great amoutns to try to absorb more glucose, causing higher levels of insulin which can be connected to some forms of cancer like colon cancer. Exercising also builds strong bones. Laying on the couch all day is making your bones not work, and your bones
not working are more open to fractures. Bones become stronger when more weight is forced on them causing the muscles to contract more to exert force on this particular area of your body. Exercising also wards off type 2 diabetes. Type 2 diabetes is where your body isn't producing
enough insulin so other tissues can't absorb glucose from the blood cauing nerve and blood vessel damage. Physical activity reverses this affect. Exercising causes the muscle to contract which heighten the production of an enzyme called adenosine momophosphate-activated kinase (AMPK) which promotes the breakdown of the fats with the cell glucose transporters. Finally exercising promotes weight loss. Exercising causes calories to be burned which loses weight. You can't just exercise to see these results though. You have to learm to eat a balanced diet on a regular basis. working out causes us to be physically and potentially mentally stronger.
I think this article was well written and explained each benefit of exercising well. It explained how each thing/benefit worked by using the inside of the body and the heart and blood blow from exercising. I think this article was really cool and jumped out to me. Playing basketball is exercising on a regular basis, and i never thought that it could prevent certain types of cancer and diabetes. It's amazing to see how working out regularly can help increase your health
and stenghten your body. Each part of the human body has a specific purpose and exercising help make it do it's job regularly. It's been shown that someone who exercises regularly can live up to 7 years longer than a couch potato. It's amazing to see how exercise can really affect you mentally and physically.