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Top 10 Benefits of Being Active
- Improve blood glucose management. Activity makes your body more sensitive to the insulin you make. Activity also burns glucose (calories). Both actions lower blood glucose.
- Lower blood pressure. Activity helps your heart pump stronger and slower.
- Improve blood fats. Exercise can raise good cholesterol (HDL) and lower bad cholesterol (LDL) and triglycerides. These changes are heart healthy.
- Take less insulin or diabetes pills. Activity can lower blood glucose and weight. Both of these may lower how much insulin or diabetes pills you need to take.
- Lose weight and keep it off. Activity burns calories. If you burn enough calories, you'll trim a few pounds. Stay active and you'll keep the weight off.
- Lower risk for other health problems. Reduce your risk of a heart attack or stroke, some cancers, and bone loss.
- Gain more energy and sleep better. You'll get better sleep in less time and have more energy, too.
- Reduce stress, anxiety, and depression. Work out or walk off daily stress.
- Build stronger bones and muscles. Weight-bearing activities, such as walking, make bones stronger. Strength-training activities, such as lifting light weights (or even cans of beans), make muscles strong.
- Be more flexible. Move easier when you are active.
