Studies have shown just two days of physical inactivity can have very detrimental effects on your body and health. According to the study performed at the University of Missouri, just two days of not exercising is enough to affect your body's efficient use of insulin, which can lead to diabetes and other related diseases. Researchers conducted a study on rats and found insulin sensitivity decreased the longer the rats stayed inactive.
The rats were allowed to run on a spinning wheel for a three week period. After that time, the rats were stopped from running. Just two days after the rats stopped running, the amount of sugar taken into their muscles in response to insulin decreased by about one third in total. The findings were discussed in the research study.
Researcher David Kump said that insulin works by taking in glucose, or blood sugar, out of the blood stream and into the muscle to be used for energy. The less efficient your insulin is the larger risk you have of diabetes, heart disease, obesity and hypertension. This is just a few of the diseases. Kump also added in his findings that everyone is looking at the benefits of exercise, but we are looking in this study at the consequences of stopping that exercise. People already know that exercise is good for them and their well-being. This shows that within a very short time frame of no activity, the insulin does not work as well and might have negative effects on a persons' health.
This study is important to consider for several reasons. First of all, it has been obvious for a long time that exercise is good for you. This is no surprise to anyone. I don't think you really need a research study to tell you that. Sometimes looking at something with a little logic goes a very long way. For example, did we really need research to know that smoking cigarettes was bad for us? Yes of course, big tobacco companies lied to us. But did you really believe inhaling a burning weed for years and years wasn't going to do something bad to your health?
Anyway, it's nice to have hard-core black-and-white proof. Especially when the results are so dramatic and can be so life changing. What I also like about this study is that it shows the consequences of not exercising. There is no doubt in my mind - exercising makes you healthier and live longer. I also have no doubt that if you do not exercise - it will cause diseases such as diabetes and heart disease (and probably many more they just haven't proven yet) and shorten your life.
This also refers to pain. Many people think that to get rid of back pain, you can just go exercise it away. This is just nonsense. If you have a herniated or bulging disc in your spine, exercise can and many times does injure it more. Once you get the disc fixed with spinal decompression, then you can go and exercise it to strengthen the area. But this does not work the other way around.
New Century Spine Chiropractic Centers in San Diego has had countless patients finally get out of pain, start an exercise program and feel years younger. Some lose 10, 20, even 30 pounds because they can finally exercise without the pain that hindered them.
The rats were allowed to run on a spinning wheel for a three week period. After that time, the rats were stopped from running. Just two days after the rats stopped running, the amount of sugar taken into their muscles in response to insulin decreased by about one third in total. The findings were discussed in the research study.
Researcher David Kump said that insulin works by taking in glucose, or blood sugar, out of the blood stream and into the muscle to be used for energy. The less efficient your insulin is the larger risk you have of diabetes, heart disease, obesity and hypertension. This is just a few of the diseases. Kump also added in his findings that everyone is looking at the benefits of exercise, but we are looking in this study at the consequences of stopping that exercise. People already know that exercise is good for them and their well-being. This shows that within a very short time frame of no activity, the insulin does not work as well and might have negative effects on a persons' health.
This study is important to consider for several reasons. First of all, it has been obvious for a long time that exercise is good for you. This is no surprise to anyone. I don't think you really need a research study to tell you that. Sometimes looking at something with a little logic goes a very long way. For example, did we really need research to know that smoking cigarettes was bad for us? Yes of course, big tobacco companies lied to us. But did you really believe inhaling a burning weed for years and years wasn't going to do something bad to your health?
Anyway, it's nice to have hard-core black-and-white proof. Especially when the results are so dramatic and can be so life changing. What I also like about this study is that it shows the consequences of not exercising. There is no doubt in my mind - exercising makes you healthier and live longer. I also have no doubt that if you do not exercise - it will cause diseases such as diabetes and heart disease (and probably many more they just haven't proven yet) and shorten your life.
This also refers to pain. Many people think that to get rid of back pain, you can just go exercise it away. This is just nonsense. If you have a herniated or bulging disc in your spine, exercise can and many times does injure it more. Once you get the disc fixed with spinal decompression, then you can go and exercise it to strengthen the area. But this does not work the other way around.
New Century Spine Chiropractic Centers in San Diego has had countless patients finally get out of pain, start an exercise program and feel years younger. Some lose 10, 20, even 30 pounds because they can finally exercise without the pain that hindered them.
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