Doctor's Orders
With special thanks to Dr. Mark Hansen for his contributions to this Update
The Top 5 Side Effects of Exercise
Your doctor feels like a broken record.
That's right - he's sick and tired of telling you how important exercise is to your health because YOU DON'T LISTEN.
He's sick of explaining how so many of your health problems will improve or even disappear as the result of a consistent exercise program.
He's tired of tallying your controllable risk factors which include physical inactivity and obesity.
So why does he continue to give you the same lecture?
Because he's seen exercise change lives.
He's even seen exercise save lives.
A Doctor's Perspective
Dr. Mark Hansen has been a specialist in Internal Medicine for over 30 years. In that time he's given a fair number of patients the exercise lecture...with good cause.
He's seen firsthand the healthy power of exercise.
Exactly what kind of power? Dr. Hansen shared the top 5 benefits that he's seen patients experience as a result of exercise...
1. Feel Great: The first thing that patients tell Dr. Hansen after starting an exercise program is how much better they feel. "People don't realize how tired they feel. They get used to feeling tired. Then when they start exercising they feel great!" This is due to the release of natural endorphins in the brain. The release gives a sense of well being, calm, and confidence.
Your energy levels boost and you feel great.
2. Pain Be Gone: Next patients notice a reduction in aches and pains. While endorphins help, improving the strength of the muscles and "memory" of the tendons make our joints more efficient. Even some chronic muscle and joint pain that they've lived with for years begins to fade. For some, joint replacement surgery is postponed. For others, arthritis pain is reduced.
Your muscles and joints feel better than ever.
3. Goodbye Coronary Heart Disease: While patients can't feel this healing benefit of exercise, it is the one that saves lives. Exercise reduces three of the major risk factors that lead to heart disease: 1) obesity, 2) high cholesterol, and 3) high blood pressure.
Obesity can be brought on with inactivity or heredity. Obesity is now a true risk factor for heart disease. (If you are overweight for your height then grow taller or diet and exercise!) Cholesterol is also reduced with physical activity. Your muscles will burn it for energy with the proper diet. High blood pressure is reduced with exercise and weight loss. There is a mile of blood vessels in each pound of fat. Losing two, three, or four pounds is reducing two, three, or four miles of tubing that your heart has to pump blood through. This loss of weight frequently reduces the pressure your heart has to build up.
Your risk of heart attack and stroke is reduced.
4. Goodbye Type 2 Diabetes: Patients with type 2 diabetes gain substantial benefits from exercise. Exercise improves the body's use of insulin, and the related weight loss improves insulin sensitivity. Of course patients with type 2 diabetes need to get guidelines from their doctor before starting an exercise program.
Your blood sugar levels are better controlled.
5. Goodbye Sleep Apnea: Patients with sleep apnea are often caught in a destructive cycle. Their weight promotes occurrences of apnea and low levels of oxygen that affects both the brain and the heart. Natural cycles of sleep are disturbed. Patients with sleep apnea snore at night and stop breathing for variable periods of time. The lack of oxygen and disturbed sleep produces excessive tiredness during the day and eventually organ damage. Weight reduction frequently can reverse this process. Dr. Hansen has seen exercise break this cycle.
Your sleep becomes restful and weight loss becomes easier.
With all of these benefits it's hard to see why anyone would avoid exercise. What's your excuse?
I know you're tired...exercise gives you energy.
I know you're in pain...exercise alleviates your muscle and joint pain.
I know you'd rather stay in bed...exercise makes your sleep more restful.
I know you're pressed for time...exercise improves your efficiency and extends your life.
I know you don't know where to start...that's where I come in.
Get started with a great workout routine today. Then the next time you see your doctor he won't give you a lecture.
He'll congratulate you.
Don't know where to start? Give us a call at 726-7613, or click here to schedule your free consultation:
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Here's one of my favorites, and loaded with nutrition...
Smoked Salmon Salad
It's simple, quick and makes the perfect lunch-to-go. Salmon in packed with protein and those omega-3 fatty acids that your body needs. Notice that this recipe doesn't call for a creamy dressing, but rather a sprinkle of balsamic vinegar. Try this on all your salads and save yourself from tons of extra calories and fat.
Yield: 1 serving
Here's what you need...
1 1/2 cups romaine lettuce, chopped
1/2 cup smoked salmon
1/2 of a hard boiled egg
3 cherry tomatoes
1 tablespoon green onion, chopped
1 kalamata olive, chopped
1 teaspoon dried parsley
Sprinkle of balsamic vinegar
Arrange the lettuce, salmon, egg, tomatoes, onion, and olive on a plate.
Sprinkle with parsley and balsamic vinegar.
Nutritional Analysis: One serving equals: 170 calories, 6g fat, 5g carbohydrate, 2 g fiber, and 18g protein.
To Your Empowerment,
Joe Thiel
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