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Show Physical activity can lessen likelihood of having a heart attack all ages to develop a physically active lifestyle. It recommended recom-mended walking, hiking, stair climbing, jogging, running, bicycling, swimming and other active sports. Exercise is most effective when it is performed 30 minutes per session on an every-other-day schedule. Check with your doctor if you plan to start an exercise program, especially if your lifestyle has been sedentary. The doctor can help you find an exercise program that suits your needs and your physical condition. You may be given an exercise tolerance test to determine deter-mine your present capabilities and to identify potential hazards. CEDAR CITY - If you are one of the many Americans who recently, started exercising or even if you are only considering it you probably want to know what the experts now say about the benefits of exercise. Physical activity may protect you against coronary heart disease and may improve your liklihood of surviving a heart attack, the American Heart Association's Subcommittee Sub-committee on Exercise and Cardiac Rehabilitation said in a report published recently in "Circulation," one of the AHA's journals. And exercise may help people control their cigarette smoking, high blood pressure, high blood cholesterol, diabetes, obesity and emotional stress all of which are factors that may increase the risk of developing coronary heart disease, said the committee, which includes in-cludes some of the top exercise experts in the United States. 1 In its report, the AHA committee cited studies which suggest that men working in physically demanding ; jobs or performing strenous jobs or performing strenuous recreational activities have less coronary heart disease during middle age. When present, coronary heart disease appears to be less severe and occurs later in life in physically active men than physically inactive men. However, because it is so difficult to carry out human studies in which all the factors that may increase the risk of coronary heart disease are strictly controlled over many years, no conclusive and unquestionable evidence has been reported so far to confirm whether exercise either prevents or retards the development develop-ment of the disease, the committee , said. More research must be done to answer this and other questions about the effects ef-fects of exercise. The committee en-couraged en-couraged individuals of |
