Stay active, eat quality food and manage emotions and stress – 3 key elements to maintaining good health. And it doesn’t cost a fortune to improve all 3; just time and self-discipline.
Pick a method – walk, run, swim, yoga, tai chi, weight training, qigong, stretch. Each has its pros and cons. JUST PICK ONE and do it consistently.
Consistent exercise helps you:
– Lower risk of obesity, cancer, heart disease, diabetes and many other illnesses
– Lose, gain, or maintain weight
– Improve resistance to infections
– Gain high-quality sleep
– Help to balance emotional health
– Prevent and relieve chronic pain
– Exercise increases size of hippocampus and improves memory
– Increase blood and oxygen flow to your brain
– Release accumulated toxins through better blood circulation
– Increase blood flow supplying nutrients necessary to keep brain cells healthy
– Improve your brain function
Tai Chi, yoga and qigong are all methods that increase the flow of energy ( and blood flow) within the body improving health and well-being.
Be well, stay healthy, be wise!
United Martial Arts Association 