prevention is more important for healthy individuals

Today medical practitioners are more on the tasks of prevention rather than treatment. They would want to assess the physical fitness and physical activities of apparently healthy individuals rather than those who have suspected or documented cardiovascular disease. There are great benefits that one derives from regular physical activity in terms of disease prevention and health improvement. Physical inactivity I believe is now a global issue. When people are too busy fulfilling other commitments, health is always taken for granted. WHO reported that 60% of the global population does not meet the daily minimum recommendation of 30 minutes of moderate intensity physical activity. Government and medical practitioners are faced with the challenge of educating and motivating people to incorporate physical activity as a regular part of their lifestyles.

So let’s take a look at our lifestyle. Physical activity is easy to incorporate in our lives. Start taking the stairs rather than elevators or escalators. This will improve your cardiovascular health. Go to the gym at least three times a week if possible. If you find it difficult to manage time then maybe you would want to buy a bicycle and spend an hour or two at the park to sweat it out. Then take a good walk or a good jog to stretch the back and the upper muscles too. Stretch and sweat it out! Your body needs to keep those sweat glands working. Devise any physical activity that could stretch your muscles, improve your cardiovascular health and most of all easier for you to do like a treadmill at home.