Daily Dose of Exercise
Daily exercise is necessary for good health. It reduces obesity, improves blood circulation and oxygen supply as well as stimulates metabolism. This prevents diseases such as cancer, high blood pressure, stroke, heart attack and diabetes. It also boosts the immune system and prevents infections taking hold in our bodies. The recommended daily dose of exercise is thirty minutes for adults and forty five minutes for kids; moderate exertion such as brisk walking is the minimum required. Young people more than adults have high basal metabolic rate, which is the burning of calories at rest through such processes as heart beat, breathing and tissue respiration to stay alive. [What is not used is stored as glycogen and fats]. It is higher for young people because they need to grow. Growth requires the breakdown of fats, conversion of glycogen to glucose and breakdown of glucose to provide energy in the form of ATP. These processes are gluconeogenesis, glycogenolysis and glycolysis. The A...