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The importance of health screening before exercise
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It is recommended that people get a health screening before starting an exercise program.
The importance of health screenings before exercise
Exercise plays a significant role in disease prevention. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, physical activity helps to reduce individuals’ risk of chronic conditions, including type 2 diabetes, heart disease, various types of cancer, and dementia.
“Everyone needs to exercise,” said Dr. Jimmy Grierson, director of the Providence Medical Group Marysville Clinic. Regular exercise improves cognitive function, helps with depression and fatigue, helps people sleep, lose weight and improve metabolic function.
Grierson recommends people get a minimum of 30 minutes of cardiovascular exercise three times a week, but they should get 150 minutes of cardiovascular exercise a week. The exercise should cause the heart rate to increase, break a sweat and get winded, but not so much so that you can’t hold a conversation.
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What to expect as you transition to a healthy diet
For many people, the road to a healthy lifestyle begins in the kitchen. People make changes to their diets of their own volition or at the recommendation of their doctors, and those changes can have side effects that might surprise even the most devoted healthy eaters.
“We try to teach eating fresh, not eating out of a box,” said Jessica Johnston, owner of Rain City Fitness in Arlington. “Going fresh is the best way to do it.”
She recommends people should purchase items that have six or less ingredients and people should start with eating a good, healthy breakfast. She added drinking water will also become a healthy habit as they transition to a more nutritional diet.
“It’s all about small changes with my clients,” Johnston said. Rain City Fitness specializes in private personal training, group fitness and nutritional coaching.
According to the Center for Advancement in Cancer Education, 90 percent of all cancer cases can be prevented through environmental and lifestyle choices like deciding to eat a healthy diet.
In addition, the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, a division of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, notes that a history of poor eating is one of the biggest contributors to the various nutrition- and physical activity-related health challenges that now face the U.S. population. By simply altering their diets to make them more nutritious, millions of people across the globe can significantly reduce their risk for various chronic diseases, including cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes.
People who are committed to eating healthier should know that changing diets can produce some adverse, but typically
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Transitioning to a healthy diet helps reduce the risk for a variety of diseases including cardiovascular disease.
temporary, side effects. The CACE notes that such side effects are predictable, as they are essentially just manifestations of the body’s adjustments as it responds to eating better. People adopting healthier diets should discuss the appearance of various side effects with their physicians while recognizing that they are not necessarily a cause for concern.
Johnston says she sees people changing their diet might temporarily feel worse or they may experience headaches especially if they are eliminating a craving source, such as sugar or
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