Helpful Health Information

Are you exercising regularly?

Exercise can benefit so many aspects of your life in a positive way. According to the Harvard School of Public Health and the 2008 Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans, regular exercise may benefit your health in more ways than you think! Here are just a few of the benefits: 

• Improves your chances of living longer and living healthier
  
• Helps protect you from developing heart disease and stroke or its precursors, high blood pressure and undesirable blood lipid patterns
  
• Helps protect you from developing certain cancers, including colon and breast cancer, and possibly lung and endometrial (uterine lining) cancer
  
• Helps prevent type 2 diabetes (what was once called adult-onset diabetes) and metabolic syndrome (a constellation of risk factors that increases the chances of developing heart disease and diabetes; read more about simple steps to prevent diabetes)
  
• Helps prevent the insidious loss of bone known as osteoporosis
  
• Reduces the risk of falling and improves cognitive function among older adults
  
• Relieves symptoms of depression and anxiety and improves mood
  
• Prevents weight gain, promotes weight loss (when combined with a lower-calorie diet), and helps keep weight off after weight loss
  
• Improves heart-lung and muscle fitness
  
• Improves sleep
  

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Like regular exercise and good nutrition, Chiropractic Care is part of a healthy lifestyle - helping you function at your best. 
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