Male Speaker: M.A Green's MuscleBuildingShop.com presents Amazing Health Benefits of Exercise. According to an article by Patrick B. Massey M.D., exercise is not only broadly beneficial for people of all ages, capable of improving nearly all medical conditions, it can even improve many symptoms of the elderly institutionalized with Alzheimer's. Several studies over the past several years have demonstrated that even our cognitively impaired elderly for whom Alzheimer's and institutionalized care is common, can show dramatic health improvements from regular exercise.
Among the benefit sited were normalized sleep patterns where patterns have previously been erratic, nearly universal and significant reduction of agitation and reduced use of psychoactive medications along with their side effects as if to emphasize the point for some little understood reason. Patients with the highest initial agitations of course often showed the most dramatic improvements. In a recent study at Saint Louis University School of Medicine in Missouri, 50 severely cognitively impaired nursing home residents participated in a supervised exercise program for three weeks. The exercise sessions mostly involved walking along with some light weight lifting and ball throwing and typically lasted only about 20 minutes. They conducted these brief exercise classes only three times per week. The residents experienced decreased agitation, improved sleep and decreased use of medication after this light but regular exercise regime. As I mentioned, they only kept this up for three weeks.
Research has concluded that quality of life of even severally cognitively impaired patients can be quickly and substantially improved by very simple programs of regular exercise. The participants also showed enthusiasm to participate and compliance with the program was very high. They also really looked forward happily to these exercise classes. So the unmeasurable benefits of more joyful and life engaging attitude also seem to increase with regular physical activity. If even such a simple and undemanding exercise program as this can yield such rapid and effective results for elderly patients with cognitive impairments, then how many of these degenerative symptoms might stem largely from a lack of exercise in the first place? How many of us passively embrace a progressive decrease in regular physical activity as we mature?
Perhaps regular physical exercise at any age is far more important for our health, well being and mental powers than we have yet to realize. Many more of us are coming to embrace regular exercise as a core component on maintaining our good health and preventing our psychical, mental and psychological decline than we were just thinking about it more without actually changing our habits. Learn more about exercise and health and get a factual and informative review of the web's Number 1 leading muscle building and fitness program at www.fitnessfactsonline.com.
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