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1.
Reduces your risk of
getting heart disease.
2.
Increases your lever of muscle strength.
3.
Improves the functioning of your immune system.
4.
Enhances sexual desire, performance and satisfaction.
5. Helps
you to more effectively manage stress.
6. Helps you to lose weight --
especially fat weight.
7. Improves the likelihood of
survival from a myocardial infarction (heart attack).
8. Can help relieve the pain of
tension headaches -- perhaps the most common type of
headache.
9. Improves your body's ability
to use fat for energy during physical activity.
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10.
Increases the density and breaking strength of bones. [TOP]
11.Helps
to preserve lean body tissue.
12. Reduces the risk of
developing hypertension (high blood pressure).
13. Increases the density and
breaking strength of ligaments and tendons.
14. Improves coronary (heart)
circulation.
15.Increases circulating level
of HDL (good) cholesterol.
16. Assists in efforts to stop
smoking.
17. Reduces your risk of
developing Type 2 (non-insulin dependent) diabetes.
18. Can help improve short-tem
memory in older individuals.
19. Helps to maintain weight
loss -- unlike dieting, alone.
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20.
Helps relieve many of the common
discomforts of pregnancy (backache, heartburn,
constipation, etc).
21. Reduces your anxiety level.
22. Helps control blood
pressure in people with hypertension.
23. Reduces the viscosity of
your blood.
24. Reduces vulnerability to
various cardiac dysrhythmias (abnormal heart rhythms).
25. Increases your maximal
oxygen uptake ( VO2 max--perhaps the best measure of
your physical working capacity).
26. Helps to overcome jet lag.
27. Slows the rate of joint
degeneration in people with osteoarthritis.
28. Lowers your resting heart
rate.
29. Helps to boost creativity.
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30.
Reduces circulating levels of triglycerides.
31. Helps the body resist upper
respiratory tract infections.
32. Increases your anaerobic
threshold, allowing you to work or exercise longer at a
higher level, before a significant amount of lactic acid
builds up.
33.Reduces medical and
healthcare expenses.
34. Improves ability to recover
from physical exertion.
35. Helps speed recovery from
chemotherapy treatments.
36. Increases ability to supply
blood to the skin for cooling.
37. Increases the thickness of
the cartilage in your joints.
38. Gives you more energy to
meet the demands of daily life, and provides you with a
reserve to meet the demands of unexpected emergencies.
39. Increase your level of
muscle endurance.
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40.
Helps you sleep easier and better..
41. Improves posture.
42. Improves athletic
performance.
43. Helps you to maintain your
resting metabolic rate.
44. Reduces the risk of
developing colon cancer.
45. Increases your tissues'
responsiveness to the actions of insulin (i.e., improves
tissue sensitivity for insulin), helping to better
control blood sugar, particularly if you are a Type2
diabetic.
46. Helps to relieve
constipation.
47. Expands blood plasma
volume.
48. Reduces the risk of
developing prostate cancer.
49. Helps to combat substance
abuse.
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50.
Helps to alleviate depression.
51. Increases your ability to
adapt to cold environments.
52. Helps you maintain proper
muscle balance.
53. Reduces the rate and
severity of medical complications associated with
hypertension.
54. Helps to alleviate certain
menstrual symptoms.
55. Lowers your heart rate
response to sub maximal physical exertion.
56. Helps to alleviate low-back
pain.
57. Helps to reduce the amount
for insulin required to control blood sugar level in
Type1(insuline-dependent) diabetics.
58. Improves mental alertness.
59. Improves respiratory muscle
strength and muscle endurance -- particularly important
for asthmatics.
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60.
Reduces your risk of having a stroke.
61. Helps you to burn excess
calories.
62. Increases your cardiac
reserve.
63. Improves your physical
appearance.
64. Offsets some of the
negative side-effects of certain antihypertensive drugs.
65.Increases your stroke volume
(the amount of blood the heart pumps with each beat).
66. Improves your self-esteem.
67. Reduces your susceptibility
for coronary thrombosis (clot in an artery that supplies
the hear with blood).
68. Helps you to relax.
69. Reduces the risk of
developing breast cancer.
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70.
Improves mental cognition (a short-term effect only).
71. Maintains or improves joint
flexibility.
72. Improves your glucose
tolerance.
73. Reduces workdays missed due
to illness.
74. Protects against "creeping
obesity"( the slow but steady weight gain that occurs as
you age).
75. Enhances your muscles'
abilities to contract.
76. Increases your productivity
at work.
77. Reduces your likelihood of
developing low-back problems.
78. Improves your balance and
coordination.
79. Allows you to consume
grater quantities of food and still maintain caloric
balance.
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80.
Provides protection against
injury.
81. Decrease (by 20 to 30
percent ) the need for antihypertensive medication if
you are hypertensive.
82. Improves your
decision-making abilities.
83. Helps reduce and prevent
the immediate symptoms of menopause (hot flashes, sleep
disturbances, irritability), and decrease the long-term
risks of cardiovascular disease, osteoporosis and
obesity.
84. Helps to relieve and
prevent "migraine headache attacks".
85. Reduces the risk of
endometriosis (a common cause of infertility).
86. Helps to retard bone loss
as you age, thereby reducing your risk of developing
osteoporosis.
87. Helps decrease your
appetite ( a short-term effect only).
88. Improves the pain tolerance
and mood if you suffer from osteoarthritis.
89. Helps prevent and relieve
the stresses that cause carpal tunnel syndrome.
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90.
Makes your heart more efficient pump.
91. Helps to decrease left
ventricular hypertrophy (a thickening of the walls of
the left ventricle) in people with hypertension.
92. Improves your mood.
93. Helps to increase your
overall health awareness.
94. Reduces the risk of
gastrointestinal bleeding.
95. Helps you to maintain an
independent lifestyle.
96. Reduces the level of
abdominal obesity -- a significant health-risk factor.
97. Increases the diffusion
capacity of the lungs, enhancing the exchange of oxygen
from your lungs to your blood.
98. Improves heat tolerance.
99. Improves your overall
quality of life.
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100.
Lifelong regular exercise may be protective against the
development of Alzheimer's disease.
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