![]() ![]() ![]() It decreases risk of several types of cancer, maintains joint health and range of motion, helps prevent and treat depression, helps with sleep, helps prevent dementia including Alzheimer’s, improves low back pain, increases bone density, helps you live longer and enhances quality of life as you age. It improves health of the endothelium that lines your arteries and decreases the risk of heart attacks and strokes. In moderation, exercise decreases inflammation and oxidative stress. These five populations eat primarily plant-based, unprocessed food eat a lot of legumes and engage in frequent, low level physical activity.Įxercise lowers your weight, your blood pressure, your blood sugar, your cholesterol and your stress hormones. They include the highlands of Sardinia Okinawa the Nicoya Peninsula in Costa Rica an island off the coast of Greece called Ikaria and the Seventh Day Adventists in Los Angeles - who for religious reasons are at least vegetarians if not vegans. The Blue Zones are five places in the world where people live particularly long and healthy lives - proven to be due to lifestyle rather than genetics. Michael Greger’s daily dozen list, the others being 10 things we should eat every day and the 11 th being what we should drink every day. Exercise is the 12 th and final item on Dr. ![]()
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