Title: WALKING VS. RUNNING - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Description: Exercise is better than any drug in maintaining heart, lung, muscle, bones, digestive and brain health. Exercise helps with weight loss, lowers cholesterol, improves our heart function, strengthens our muscles, increases balance, reduces cancer, boosts our immune system, fights depression, reduces stress, improves sleep, enhances our mood, and aids in brain regeneration minimizing effects of Alzheimer’s and dementia!  Even minimal lite running of 5 to 10 minutes a day was found to reduce overall mortality by 30%, reduce cardiovascular disease by 45%, and add 3 years of life expectancy (1).  Yet, almost 80% of Americans remain sedentary and less than 30% of high school students get 60 minutes of physical activity every day (2). – PowerPoint PPT presentation