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Aerobic exercise is a form of exercise that helps you repeatedly move large muscles in arms, legs and hips. People can a lot 30 minutes a day to aerobic exercise. This 30 minute exercise can be a big factor in you living longer and healthier.

When done properly, this attributes to the maximization of the amount of oxygen in the blood. This results to faster heart beat, increasing the blood flow to the muscles and back to the lungs. Small blood vessels also widen to deliver more oxygen and carry away waste products.
Here is some of what a 30-minute aerobic exercise can do:

Reduce health risks – aerobic exercise reduces many health risks including obesity, heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes and stroke.

Manages chronic conditions – aerobic exercise helps in lowering high blood pressure, controls blood sugar and relieve chronic muscle pain. It can also prevent subsequent attacks on heart attack patients.

Keep excess pounds at bay – aerobic exercise can help you lose weight. And when combined with a healthy diet, this lost weight can be kept off.

Ward off viral illnesses – aerobic exercise activates immune system, and this in turn leaves you less vulnerable to minor viral illnesses like colds and flu.

Keep arteries clear – aerobic exercise helps in maintaining less buildup of plaques in arteries by increasing the concentration of high-density lipoprotein cholesterol and decreasing the concentration of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol in the blood.

Strengthens heart – aerobic exercise makes you keep a stronger heart by helping heart to pump blood more efficiently.

Boosts mood – aerobic exercise can contribute in easing gloominess of depression and tension associated with anxiety.

Increase stamina – aerobic exercise increases stamina and reduces fatigue over the long term.

So what are you waiting for? Start now with 30-minute aerobic exercise a day and live longer!

Carla Patacsil wrote this on June 22nd, 2008 and filed it under Healthy Living, Diet & Exercise |