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After a stressful day, most of us just want to relax, and getting exercise may be the last thing on our list of priorities. However, research is increasingly proving that exercise is just what we need to significantly decrease daily stress and anxiety.

From a Mayo Clinic staff study, “Exercise helps prevent and improve a number of health problems, including high blood pressure, diabetes and arthritis. Research on anxiety, depression and exercise shows that the psychological and physical benefits of exercise can also help reduce anxiety and improve mood.”

How does it work? In a variety of ways:

Chemical: Exercise releases “feel good” chemicals in your brain. You may have heard of the “runner’s high”. Well, it’s not just a ploy to get you to exercise! Physical activity releases endorphins, which deliver a mood lift to your body and mind.

Healthy Choices: Beyond chemical stimulation, exercise most often makes you feel good about your choices. When you’re confident that you’re improving your health, you’ll increase your overall confidence.

Distraction: Exercise can be an opportunity to step away from the worries of the day, and spend time by yourself, focusing on your body, and letting stress take a back seat for a while. That’s a daily prescription we could all use!

Read more of what the Mayo Clinic has to say regarding exercise and anxiety here:

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/depression-and-exercise/MH00043

And go here to read about how the Body For The Ages Online Wellness Program can deliver an exercise, health, and wellness program tailored to your specific needs:

www.BodyForTheAgesNonprofit.org

-Melissa Chandler, Body For The Ages Blogger

Are you self-conscious about going to the gym? 

Check out this quote from the Apria Healthcare website:

“In today’s weight room, you’re as likely to see a grandmother working her glutes as a quarterback working his quads, now that resistance exercise is recognized as vital to building strong muscles and bones.” 

Read more here: http://www.apria.com/channels/1,2748,94-193,00.html

Pax’s Prescription Method of Training will show you how weight-resistance training will not only strengthen your muscles, but your heart as well. 

Pax didn’t just treat his heart disease – he reversed it.  Now his passion is to show others how to do the same.  Why?  Because it’s completely unnecessary that 50% of people die from Heart Disease or heart related illnesses.  Body For The Ages seeks to eliminate this insidious statistic. 

Read Pax’s story at www.BodyForTheAges.com.  He’s living proof that you can take control of your health, beat heart risks, and have fun in the process.

Until Next Time,

Hey there Folks,

This is pretty helpful for anyone looking for some background information on the practice of anti-aging and exceeding the average human lifespan: Wiki - Anti-Aging.

We at BODY FOR THE AGES place an emphasis on anti-aging through preventative and rehabilitative Heart Health. We do this utilizing a more holistic / fitness regiment [concentrating on Heart Health and fighting Heart Disease], as opposed to some of the more scientific perspectives that are discussed in this Wiki page.

However we do implement the power of Pyruvate and Protein supplementation, found as a portion of our Online Wellness Program, you may visit us there to learn more about our Nonprofit mission or for direct access visit us at our retail Online Store now offering a 2 for 1 special on Pyruvate and 2 for 1Protein !! Visit and learn how Pyruvate can help you prevent Heart Risks.

until next time,

Team Body For the Ages

So I was surfing the internet, like one does, when I came across this article:

Being skinny is no guarantee of a healthy heart
Serious health risks are found equally in fat and thin folks, study shows
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26143255/

Certainly, got my attention.  The article references a recent study that demonstrates that ones weight does not indicate heart risks.  Better indicators of heart risks are age, smoking, and especially inactivity.

“The results underscore how important exercise is for staying healthy, even for people of healthy weight” said Judith Wylie-Rosett, an author of the study.

This is something that Pax has been advocating for years.  As he puts it, a healthy body is not imancipated.  It’s fit.  You don’t want to be merely skin and bones.  You want to have muscle as well as little fat.  You don’t want to look like a skeleton with skin stretched over it.

Hopefully, this study will help move the thinking in the health and wellness fields away from weight loss to exercise.

There has been much concern expressed about the consumption of soy protein by men.  Supposedly, eating soy protein can reduce testosterone levels in men.

This claim doesn’t live up to scrutiny.  Here’s the basis of the concern: One man, in one study, saw a significant reduction in testosterone.  And he had a testosterone level 200% above normal.  Here’s a link to that study. No need to run around like Chicken Little.

A more recent study found NO decrease in testosterone.  Click here to read it.

So, one can make there own mind up.  Personally, I think that the issue deserves more study before one avoids soy protein, and we should see if soy may have testosterone regulation benefits.

Also, there is no dispute about the heart benefits.  The FDA has granted this health claim for soy: “25 grams of soy protein a day, as part of a diet low in saturated fat and cholesterol, may reduce the risk of heart disease.”

So, check out Pax’s protein, formulated to attack heart risks!