Fit to Live by Pamela Peeke

Author:Pamela Peeke
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale
Published: 2012-05-09T04:00:00+00:00

Kids are as bad off as adults. High schoolers’ enrollment in daily physical education classes was only 33 percent in 2005. Almost one-third of states do not require phys ed for students until high school. Nearly one-quarter of states allow students to receive gym credit for online courses. Yes, you read that right. This, at the same time that an international study concluded that children should have 90 minutes of daily physical activity.

Heart disease risk factors such as high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and insulin resistance start in early childhood, and physical activity at the 90-minute level reduces these factors, particularly insulin resistance. This may be particularly important to girls. Exercise when young can lower hormone levels and perhaps delay the onset of menstruation. That’s good, because girls who don’t get their periods until 13 or 14 have a lower risk of breast cancer throughout their lifetimes. Increased physical activity also lowers body fat in girls, which also helps reduce breast cancer risk.

Unfortunately, it’s the people who could benefit the most who are moving the least. Exercise has been shown to cut type 2 diabetes risk by 50 percent. But among people at risk of developing it, those who were thinner; less depressed, stressed, or anxious; or more confident in their ability to exercise were more likely to do so. In other words, those who would benefit the most were less likely to do it. This is why it’s so important to get the whole Fit to Live lifestyle going. When you’re Cutting through your Mental Fat and getting Nutritionally Fit, you’re more likely have the drive to do what you need to become Physically Fit to Live. And when you move, you’ll be less depressed, stressed, and anxious, and more confident and happy. They’re all exquisitely interrelated.

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