1. Helps to increase your overall health awareness
2. Improves pain tolerance
3. Increases your productivity at work
4. Allows you to consume greater quantities of food and still maintain caloric balance
5. Helps you to relax
6. Improves your physical appearance
7. Improves respiratory muscle strength and muscle endurance, particularly important to asthmatics
8. Helps reduce the amount of insulin required to control your blood sugar
9. Helps to alleviate certain menstrual symptoms
10. Helps you maintain proper muscle balance
11. Reduces your risk of having a stroke
12. Reduces the risk of developing prostate cancer
13. Reduces your risk of developing colon cancer
14. Helps you sleep easier and better
15. Reduces the viscosity of your blood
16. Improves your heat tolerance
17. Increases your ability to supply blood flow to your skin for cooling
18. Helps you to incur fewer medical and health-care expenses
19. Helps you overcome jet lag
20. Lowers your resting heart rate
21. Assists you in your efforts to stop smoking
22. Reduces your vulnerability to various cardiac dysrhythmias (abnormal heart rhythms)
23. Helps control blood pressure in hypertensives
24. Helps relieve many of the common discomforts of pregnancy
25. Helps improve short-term memory in older adults
26. Reduces your circulating levels of triglycerides
27. Improves your coronary (heart) circulation
28. Reduces your risk of developing hypertension (high blood pressure)
29. Increases your level of muscle strength
30. Helps relieve the pain of tension headaches - perhaps the most common type of headache
31. Improves your body’s ability to use fat for energy during physical activity
32. Improves your body posture
33. Helps you to lose Weight- especially fat weight
34. Improves your athletic performance
35. Improves your balance and coordination
36. Makes your heart a more efficient pump
37. Maintain or improves your level of joint flexibility
38. Improves your self-esteem
39. Helps you to burn excess calories
40. Improves your mental alertness
41. Helps alleviate low-back pain
42. Increases your ability to adapt to cold environments
43. Helps to alleviate depression
44. Helps to relieve constipation
45. Reduces the risk of developing breast cancer
46. Helps you to maintain your resting metabolic rate
47. Helps you to more effectively manage stress
48. Provides you with protection against injury
49. Increases the diffusion capacity of your lungs, enhancing the exchange of oxygen from your lungs to your blood
50. Improves your ability to recover from physical exertion and improves your pain tolerance and mood
51. Slows the rate of joint degenerations if you suffer from osteoarthritis
52. Helps to boost creativity
53. Increases the density and breaking strength of your bones
54. Increases your level of muscle endurance
55. Reduces your level of anxiety
56. Reduces your risk of developing Type II (non-insulin dependent) diabetes
57. Helps you to maintain your weight loss-unlike dieting, alone
58. Increases your circulating levels of HDL (good) cholesterol
59. Increases the density and breaking strength of your ligaments and tendons
60. Helps you to preserve lean body tissue-muscle strength… Increases your maximal oxygen uptake (VO2) perhaps the best measure of your physical working capacity
61. Helps the body resist upper-respiratory tract infections
62. Reduces your risk of heart disease
63. Improves the likelihood of your survival from myocardial infraction (heart attack)
64. Improves the functioning of your immune system
65. You get to walk with a Coffee Cup Friend
66. More energy and vigor!
67. Taking care of your body honors God!
68. It’s a “feel-good” accomplishment!!!

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