7 Surprising Benefits of Exercise.
You've probably heard that exercise is "healthy for the heart" and have a vague idea that it's good for you. But if you're like the majority of people, that won't be enough to get you to sweat on a regular basis. As I report in the TIME main story, "The Activity Fix," just 20% of Americans get the suggested 150 minutes of solidarity and cardiovascular actual work each week, the greater part of all children of post war America report doing no activity at all, and 80.2 million Americans over age 6 are totally latent. That is unfavorable news, but new evidence indicates that there are numerous compelling reasons to begin moving at any age, even if you are ill or pregnant .Indeed, researchers are discovering that exercise is actually a form of medicine .According to Claude Bouchard, director of the human genomics laboratory at Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Louisiana, "There is no pill that comes close to what exercise can do. "Additi...