Physical Activity for Healthy Living

Posted on January 13, 2014 by john in Fitness tips, Health care

You worry about our health never hurts. Sometimes we only remember it when we are sick and then decided to go to the doctor or, in the worst case, we self-medicate.

Health enhancing physical activity. Apparently feel they do not relieve us of our body and take an interest in their operation, hence the importance of healthy living. But how to achieve it?

Achieve a correct and balanced diet, which provide us the right to preserve our physical and mental health in constant harmony with the environment around us nutrients, is one of the steps to consider, while the other point I want to share with you is related to practice exercises frequently. Ah ! and refrain from smoking.

The world, and the Cubans as part of it, we are absorbed into a stirred, own routine of the century. The turbulent life in which we find ourselves, makes us victims of stress, buzzword, with which justify most of our ailments.

In the book “In Motion ” by Dr. Gregorio Martinez Sanchez, published by the Scientific and Technical Publishing, the author presents the advantages of the practice of regular physical activity for health for all, through a set training plan to personal characteristics. The text helps Cubans try to transform hostile and sedentary life in pursuit of an active, healthy and fulfilling life.

Practice exercises regularly and systematically helps minimize the risks of cardiovascular, coronary heart disease, cerebrovascular accident, diabetes, hypertension and back pain to name a few. Besides helping to prolong our existence on Earth and improve its quality, because its benefits are from physiological, psychological and even social.

During childhood and youth, people are more active, though not always achieved this age group motivated by physical activity in their free time, perhaps because of the influence it has on today ‘s public child and adolescent culture media audiovisuals, which are almost always rigged to inactivity and obesity, the latter due to the ingestion of the ” junk food”, with which it often accompanies long hours photo viewing.

In fact, the World Health Organization (WHO ) announced that 2.7 million deaths a year are attributed to insufficient intake of fruits and vegetables, while a 1.9 million is caused by physical inactivity.

Recognizing then that improving diet and promoting physical activity represent a unique opportunity to develop and implement an effective strategy to reduce the mortality and burden of disease worldwide, WHO adopted in May 2004 the Global Strategy on Diet, physical Activity and Health.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH ) recognizes that there are four main types of physical activity: aerobic, designed to strengthen the muscles, bones, and stretching. The first is the one that benefits the heart and lungs.

Now, when we decided to practice exercise is always good to consider the opinion of a specialist succor us about the type of activity performed, according to the needs and characteristics of our body.

In the article ” Physical activity and oxidative stress. The great paradox “, the authors, Dr. Luis Mayor, Ms. Celia Alonso and Angela DrC. Osvaldo Garcia, called attention to the oxidative stress generated, sometimes, physical activity (PA ).

Oxidative stress, defined as “a state of the cell in which the oxide is altered intracellular homeostasis reduction, ie, the balance between pro-oxidants and antioxidants. This imbalance occurs because of excessive production of reactive oxygen species ( ROS ) and / or deficiency in antioxidant mechanisms, leading to cell damage. ”

Also explain that the AF increases oxygen consumption generating the appearance of Reactive Oxygen Species ( ROS ), “which can be seen as a stimulus that stresses various body systems in different degrees and thus promotes a variety of adaptations roughly specific for the type, intensity and duration of exercise performed. ”

Undoubtedly, oxidative stress is a disturbance of redox balance ( ORP ) for the overproduction of ROS. The MEDI- MARKETING.es Web site notes that when oxidative stress is allowed to persist for an extended period of time, people are more conducive to developing a chronic degenerative disease, hence the importance of practicing exercises consciously.

Dr. Rafael Gutierrez, MEDS sports physician, emphasizes that this condition is not controlled oxidation leads to premature aging in addition, the condition of more than 200 diseases, including cardiovascular, neurological, degenerative and certain cancers.

In turn, clinical nutritionist Dawn Cooper suggests that endogenous antioxidant produced by our body ( super oxide dismutase, catalase, glutathione peroxidase ) tend to decrease with age, so it is essential antioxidant intake in the diet and as supplements.

We are responsible for the physical activity we exercise, which should be all healthy and adequate to our needs now. The physiological and psychological values ​​that earn more than the practice are proven, just like everything in life should be free of excess.