Health benefits of regular exercise

In aging and disease inactivity is associated with physical and functional decline. Regular exercise helps to prevent disease, to treat chronic diseases and to maintain functional capacity.

Thirty minutes of physical exercise most days of the week can make a difference. An exercise program can benefit people of all ages, even older people. There is good evidence that people who take regular exercise are healthier and have lower blood pressures than those who take none.

High blood pressure is the leading preventable cause of disease-specific death in women, the leading preventable cause of death in men due to cardiovascular disease and the second leading cause of disease-specific death among men and women combined.

There is evidence that regular exercise decreases coronary heart disease in normotensive and hypertensive people. This may be partly because they are thinner and tend to have more sensible dietary, drinking and smoking habits.

Recently, a study of the affects of different levels of exercise lowers blood pressure independently from any other dietary manoeuvres.

Among disease related to or caused by a sedentary lifestyle or insufficient activity and lack of regular exercise: arthritis, cardiovascular disease, depression, diabetes, high blood pressure, high blood cholesterol, mental health, obesity, osteoporosis, some form of cancer, stroke etc.
Health benefits of regular exercise

Avocado and blood cholesterol

Avocado and blood cholesterol
Avocado is a very dense fruit, packed with nutrients. It is especially rich in vitamin A. It also contains plenty of B vitamins, especially, folic acid, calcium, iron, 9 essential amino acids and a mountain of potassium.

The avocado has shown to benefit circulation, lower cholesterol and dilate blood vessels. It’s true that avocados are high in fat – one reason they’ve earned the nick name “butter pear.” But it’s primary fat, monounsaturated oleic acid ((also concentrated in olive oil), acts as an antioxidant to block LDL cholesterol.

In 1996 study in Mexico showed that from 45 subjects who ate avocados every day for just one week experienced an average of 17 percent drop in total blood cholesterol. They cholesterol ratio also changed in a healthy way: Their LDL (low density lipoprotein) and triglycerides dropped significantly while their HDL (high density lipoprotein) levels climbed.

Avocados are also rich in beta-sitosterol which was shown to reduce cholesterol in human studies. Beta sitosterol is a widely prescribed anti-cholesterol drug that interferes with cholesterol absorption, but has serious side effects. Avocados have four times the amount found in oranges that had previously been cited as the richest fruit source of beta sitosterol.

Avocado has been found to have three times the amount of glutathione than in any other fruit. Glutathione is a powerful antioxidant shown to block thirty different carcinogens and to block the proliferation of the AIDS virus in test tube experiments. Studies have revealed a strong correlation between increased glutathione intakes (from food) an decreased risk of oral and pharyngeal cancer.
Avocado and blood cholesterol