Men's Health

Regular exercise is one of the most effective medications that medical practitioners rarely prescribe for you. The benefits of regular exercise on your health are numerous, we will look at few of them in this post. Exercise does not have to be a heavy one all the time, like lifting heavy weight, jogging long distance and so on. Taking a walk for some distance, skipping, stretching, pushups and some other light exercise will do the magic. Benefit 1: lower cholesterol As most men get older, cholesterol numbers begin to move in the wrong direction. Levels of so-called bad cholesterol — low-density lipoprotein (LDL) — gradually increase. Levels of good cholesterol, called high-density lipoprotein (HDL), tend to fall. Unfortunately, that combination of high LDL and low HDL is one of the leading risk factors for heart disease.  Excess cholesterol accumulates on the inner lining of blood vessels, leading to arthrosclerosis and heart attacks. The best way to keep LDL chole...