Friday, June 18, 2010

What happens to your body on exercise?


This is one of those great articles about how scientists are still finding out about really basic, but important, things. Like what exercise really does for your body, and how it does it.

I am not an exercise freak, by any means, but I am happy to say that, over the past month, I have exercised pretty well (by my standards) -- and on those days I "skipped," I have actually missed doing a workout.

This is from the New York Times "Well" blog:

working out lessens a person’s chances of developing heart problems far more than scientists can account for. They understand the physiological reasons for about 60 percent of the reduced risk. The rest is a mysterious if welcome bonus.

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