Exercise Health Benefits for Women | 07/31/2009 9:30 am
Study: Exercise Helps Reduce 'Bad' Cholesterol in Women
Just one more reason to get off the couch and hit the gym or the great outdoors — your heart will thank you!
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We all knew exercise was good for our health, but we’re now finding out hitting the pavement or the gym is actually even better for us women than it is for men.
An article in the August issue of Journal of Lipid Research talked about the results of a long-term study of more than 8,700 men and women ages 45-64, which provided race- and gender-specific data on the cholesterol effects of physical activity. The study showed that women, particularly black women, experience greater benefits as a result of exercise than men. At least an extra half hour of moderate activity per week resulted in higher levels of "good" HDL cholesterol for all, but the "bad" LDL cholesterol levels were significantly decreased in women, particularly menopausal and black women.
Just one more reason to get off that couch and go for a walk. Your heart will thank you!
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This is so true - the results of my last lab work showed that my normally high ‘good’HDL was even higher. The nurse who called me with my results said that obviously I work out because the same results show for all physically active women. I found that information quite encouraging.
What I found discouraging was my doctor’s reaction to my weight: ‘I guess it’s OK if you’re comfortable with that number’. I really don’t care about the number, I care more about the fact that my size 8 jeans are getting loose, that I have less jiggle and more definition in my arms and abs and that I still eat a normal variety of foods, including some completely sinful ones on occasion!
This is a "NO BRAINER"!!!! Geesh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Finding out was no fun, though - they were onto the wrong ‘system.’ sheesh. Quacks, there are flocks of them!
Sheesh, same here, but they gave me 2 drugs on my ‘ALLERGY" red armbands, and I did "check out" during the time I was being "electrically" stopped! Worse, they later took me to a floor, not ICU, and no one knew I was there, apparently - or the charge nurse is lying, thus I had no help.
Cost of healthcare? It cost to have me flown to another region for emergency care because I demanded it, never wanting to go near those people, again.
I didn’t cause it; in fact, each had in hand, papers on what and how to care for me in specific situations by the world expert! There are no excuses for such neglect.