Importance of Physical Exercise for Well-being and Disease Prevention: Tips for a Healthy Lifestyle

2023-07-22 17:15:00

Doing physical exercises is important because it helps to have well-being and a healthy body. Otherwise, not exercising is a risk factor for chronic disease.

In cardiovascular and metabolic pathologies such as ischemic heart disease, atherosclerosis, hyperinsulinism and diabetes, there are factors such as heredity, sex and age that cannot be modified.

However, it is possible to eliminate some with physical training, even in the treatments for diabetes mellitus and arterial hypertension, among others, aerobic exercise routines are indicated.

“Physical exercise can prevent the patient with heredity from developing the disease to which he is susceptible for many years or perhaps for a lifetime,” Dr. Begoña Barriuso, an internist, told Últimas Noticias.

The opposite is a sedentary lifestyle, which stimulates obesity, for example. In addition, a sedentary lifestyle is already recognized by medical science as a bad habit that causes hypertriglyceridemia, insulin resistance, decreased aerobic capacity, and decreased resistance to exertion.

Exercise is also great for treating sleep and mood disorders like insomnia, depression, anxiety, and stress. In any tobacco or illicit substance cessation program, it is one of the tools for the patient.

Likewise, as a therapeutic intervention, it has been shown to be effective in reversing osteoporosis, hyperinsulinism, raising HDL cholesterol called good, and lowering abdominal fat.

To a certain extent, it acts as a preventive measure, the internist highlighted.

not a vaccine

Dr. Barriuso added that, despite the importance of exercise to prevent risk factors for chronic diseases, exercising is a complement to medicine and healthy lifestyles.

It must be accompanied by an adequate diet low in carbohydrates, saturated fats and rich in vegetables; reduce alcohol intake and a restful sleep habit. All this, as a whole, keeps the individual away from the current epidemic of cardiometabolic diseases.

“It is a very common mistake to believe that exercise is a kind of vaccine for cardiovascular or metabolic diseases. I have achieved a lot of resistance in athletes and in the consultation they have blood pressure because their parents are hypertensive, uncles with ischemic heart disease, hypertensive and they have been able to consider that by exercising they are immune to suffering cardiovascular diseases and what they do is perhaps delay their onset, “he said.

Physical exercise alone does not prevent chronic diseases, but must be part of a comprehensive approach. Jogging is useless if you smoke half a box of cigarettes followingwards, have high cholesterol or blood pressure figures outside the established values.

painkiller of the century

On the other hand, from the point of view of traumatology, physical exercises are important for the optimal performance of the musculoskeletal system. Juan Carlos Pérez Cipollitti, traumatologist, specialist in orthopedics and bioregenerative medicine at the La Fe de Pampatar Clinical Center, Nueva Esparta state, affirmed that this creates an analgesic effect in those who have chronic pain.

He referred to ÚN that the human body is designed to be in motion and not exercising regularly brings back pain and muscle spasms. “They can be avoided by doing strength training in the gym or cardio, the important thing is to move,” she said.

Pérez, also a postgraduate professor of Traumatology and Orthopedics at the Venezuelan Institute of Social Security at the Luis Ortega de Porlamar hospital, recommends doing physical exercises on a recurring basis to stay healthy and, in those with certain diseases, adapting to an appropriate program.

He said that as the body ages it experiences a loss of muscle mass, especially fast-twitch muscle fibers. At this point, exercise slows down that mass loss, strengthens your muscles, and improves your speed of response.
Others are that it is good for the knees, the lower back and the spine. “Exercise itself releases a series of neurotransmitters and other neuroactive molecules that decrease pain. Exercise is the pain reliever of the century,” he reiterated.

Sedentary lifestyle

A sedentary lifestyle is one of the main causes of childhood obesity and the onset of diabetes at an early age, according to Dr. Begoña Barriuso, who agrees with Dr. Pérez Cipollitti, who added that according to the World Health Organization, this problem affects at least 60% of the population worldwide and nearly 2 million people die each year from complications related to a sedentary lifestyle, which increases the risk of mortality by 9%.

He also pointed out that doing strength exercises not only helps reduce the rapid loss of muscle fibers, but also causes an increase in bone mass.

He commented that although muscle aging occurs with advancing age, a sedentary lifestyle influences its poor function, therefore, a routine of physical exercises according to each person is a way to strengthen health.

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