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Anti Disease Advice
Seven of ten deaths are caused by poor diet, tobacco, and too little exercise.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention tells us,
"Seven of 10 deaths, or more than 1.7 million each year, are caused by chronic diseases."
and
that the major risk factors for chronic diseases are "tobacco use, poor nutrition, and lack of physical activity"
Neglect of our bodies has become such a problem
in North America that the U.S. President's Council on
Physical Fitness has defined "Sedentary Death
Syndrome" (SeDS) to focus on this major behavioral
cause of death in adults, and it is not limited to seniors.
Children increasingly have health problems formerly seen mostly in adults.
Recent medical science publications show that even moderate
activity can help the body to resist angina, arthritis, breast
cancer, colon cancer, congestive heart failure, coronary artery
disease, depression, gallstone disease, heart attack, high blood
cholesterol, high blood triglyceride, hypertension, lessened
cognitive function (e.g., Alzheimer's disease), low blood HDL,
lower quality of life, obesity, osteoporosis, pancreatic cancer,
peripheral vascular disease, physical frailty, premature
mortality, prostate cancer, sleep apnea, stiff joints, stroke,
type 2 diabetes, spinal injury, weak bones, and more.
We can't live for ever, but we can delay the onset of death - causing diseases by
Good Diet and Moderate Exercise.
It's really that simple.
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