Physical Wellbeing

Many things in life are beyond individual control but you do have influence over your physical wellbeing through your activity, what you choose to eat and the understanding you have about your own body.

• At just about any stage in your life you can become active and remain active longer.
• Building a stronger body and improving lifetime fitness will help you cope better with everyday activities.
• Activity, particularly simple, weight-bearing physical activity, helps to maintain muscle and bone strength throughout your life.
• You don't have to attend a gym or spend much money to maintain your active self.

Exercise and Physical Activity

Exercise could be described as a marvel of modern medicine as its benefits will help prevent heart disease, stroke, diabetes, obesity, and a number of cancers as well as gallstones and diverticulitis.

Physical activity will stimulate you to grow new capillaries in your heart, your skeletal muscles, and your brain, improving blood flow and the delivery of oxygen and nutrients. Your attention span will increase. If you have arthritis, your symptoms will improve. Your blood volume will increase, and you'll burn fats better. Even your immune system will be stimulated.

Exercise can change virtually every tissue in the body because it works by many different pathways — metabolic, hormonal, neurological, and mechanical thus providing protective effects against many serious diseases.

How Exercise Leads to better Health

By introducing a moderate amount of exercise into your daily life, you can significantly improve your overall health, well-being and quality of life. And the health benefits of exercise can be achieved by virtually everyone, regardless of age, sex, race or physical ability.

The merits of exercise — ranging from preventing chronic health conditions to boosting your confidence and self-esteem — are hard to ignore

• Strengthen your cardiovascular and respiratory systems
• Keep bones & muscles strong
• Manage your weight
• Prevent and manage diabetes
• Ease depression and manage stress
• Reduce your risk of certain types of cancers
• Sleep Better
• Sleep Better

• Eating healthy foods is a wonderful habit to begin.
• You may have little time for planning meals and shopping for special foods, so simple, satisfying and easy to prepare meals are a must.
• When choosing food a variety is important with plenty of ‘colourful' vegetables, cereals, grains, rice and fruits as well as some good protein from meat, fish, soy or legumes.
• Concentrating on tasty nutrient dense food with antioxidants and phytoestrogens, rather than energy dense food should help to stem weight increase, as you get older.