~ People with knee arthritis were on this medicine for one hour, three times\/week and this reduced their rates of pain and disability by 47%.<\/p>\n
~ This treatment decreased progression to Dementia and Alzheimer\u2019s by 50% in older patients.<\/p>\n
~ Patients with high risk of Diabetes had a 58% decrease in the chances of getting frank diabetes on this medicine.<\/p>\n
~ Post-menopausal women were treated 4 hours\/week and had a 41% reduction in the risk of hip fractures.<\/p>\n
~ This treatment decreased anxiety by 48% in a big meta analysis.<\/p>\n
~ Patients suffering from depression were on this treatment and 30% were relieved with a low dose of the treatment and this increased to 47% as the treatment was increased.<\/p>\n
~ Following 100,000 Harvard Alumni for over 12 years this treatment gave a 23% lower risk of death than those who did not get the treatment.<\/p>\n
~ This medicine is the number one treatment of fatigue and most importantly this therapy increases ones quality of life<\/strong>.<\/p>\n SO WHAT IS THE TREATMENT? NOT A SUPER PILL, OR ANY SUPERINVENTION.<\/p>\n THE TREATMENT WAS SIMPLE EXERCISE. <\/strong>Yup <\/strong>you heard me right\u2026.Exercise<\/strong>\u2026.and with exercise there is no side effects but health benefits.<\/strong><\/p>\n Dr. Steven Blair conducted a study called the Aerobic Centre longitudinal Study. Where he followed 50,000 men and women. A part of the study was looking for the strongest predictor of death\u2026what do you think he found\u2026.did you think smoking was the strongest predictor of death? What about high blood pressure? Both of these were not the answer he found the strongest predictor of death is Low Fitness<\/strong>.<\/p>\n \u201cTHE BEST THING YOU CAN DO FOR YOUR HEALTH IS BEING ACTIVE FOR A \u00bd HOUR A DAY\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n The studies above looked mainly at walking <\/strong>as the form of exercise. By spending \u00bd hour or 1 hour being active every day will be a positive benefit to your health.<\/p>\n Another study to note is the nurse\u2019s health study which followed women who were not active and then followed them as they increased their activity to one hour\/week and found that they reduced heart disease rates by almost a half!<\/p>\n Your style and approach to exercise is what matters:<\/p>\n ~ Remember to talk to your doctor before you start any exercise program.<\/p>\n ~ You can meet with friends to play sport or go for a walk<\/p>\n ~ Your commute to work can be a walk to work\u2026you save money on parking and your body receives the health benefits from it.<\/p>\n ~ Walking the dog is great\u2026one study found dog walkers meet the exercise requirements more often.<\/p>\n ~ You can play in a Basketball tournament! By the way the Haida\u2019s won the All Native Tournament this year. Way to Masset Masters and Skidegate Saints! 2013 Champs!<\/p>\n There is no \u201cpill\u201d better than exercise. Hippocrates said, \u201cWalking is man\u2019s best medicine\u201d and I couldn\u2019t agree anymore.<\/p>\n (It is also good for your Brain\u2026..but that will be a later post) \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n Peter Eppinga M.D. “Love my Life” especially when exercising!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ~ People with knee arthritis were on this medicine for one hour, three times\/week and this reduced their rates of pain and disability by 47%. ~ This treatment decreased progression to Dementia and Alzheimer\u2019s by 50% in older patients. ~ Patients with high risk of Diabetes had a 58% decrease in the chances of getting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,4,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aboriginal-health","category-diet-and-exercise","category-your-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drpetereppinga.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drpetereppinga.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drpetereppinga.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drpetereppinga.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drpetereppinga.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/drpetereppinga.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138,"href":"https:\/\/drpetereppinga.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions\/138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drpetereppinga.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drpetereppinga.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drpetereppinga.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}