How does fitness affect your health?

I know fitness is beneficial for your health but how is it beneficial. What does it do for the body? If you could give me a website that backs up your claim that would be great.How does fitness affect your health?Really you need to be convinced that working out benifits your health.



Lets start easy.



Fitness and activity increases and strengthins bones. They are discovering that milk has little effect and activity is much more effective for healthy and strong boned.



Running regularly also has been proven to help fight the aging process. It prevents muscle and bone loss that often occur with age.



Running reduces the risk of stroke and breast cancer. Regular running has become a treatment option for doctors to prescribe to patients who are at a high risk, or early stages, of osteoporosis, diabetes, and hypertension. It reduces the risk of heart attacks, by strengthening the heart and lowering blood pressure. Running lowers blood pressure and maintains the elasticity of arteries incredibly well because as you run your arteries expand and contract nearly three times as much as usual.



Running also helps maintain and improve general health. It raises HDL (or "good") cholesterol, reduces the risk of blood clots, and encourages use of the 50% of your lungs that usually go unused. Running also boost the immune system by creating a higher concentration of lymphocytes (white blood cells that attack disease).



Personnally I have found that my digestion and sleep have dramatically increased in quality. Knees dont hurt as much from extra weight, and the chics like it.How does fitness affect your health?
I'd say the main two things are:



If you do proper aerobic exercise your heart will be healthier.



If you keep your weight to a healthy level you won't have a plethora of health issues in the future.



Answer mine? http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?鈥?/a>How does fitness affect your health?The purpose of being fit is to have good health. A regular exercise or even your daily routine will reward you to gain healthy body. Balance diet, nutritious food and work out helps you also to be fit.How does fitness affect your health?
Mypyramid.gov is my fave site.How does fitness affect your health?depends on what you do...