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Regular exercise not only builds the capacity of your entire cardiovascular system, it also builds your capacity to handle physical and emotional stress. Regular exercise dissipates the biochemical by-products of emotional stress, which include blood fats, sugar, and cholesterol, among others. It also burns off the hormonal by-products and "toxins" of stress. Most important, it reduces high blood pressure.
Regular exercise also has a stress-busting effect. Even though your body initially experiences physical stress due to exercise, but over time it will adapts to the stress demand and reaps several anti stress benefits. Exercise, especially aerobic exercise, releases naturally occurring opiates in the brain, which help us feel positive. Research has shown that people who regularly exercise are less apt to be depressed, tense, or worried. If you are new to exercising, you don't have to do a lot. Try a thirty-minute brisk walk (about fifteen minutes per mile) four or five times a week.
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