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The physical activity was associated with the health of people since ancient times. The athletes of the former Greek civilization, for example, occupied a prominent place within society and arrived in deification their exploits athletic. In the course of history was linking the longevity of certain populations of the planet with active lifestyles and adequate food.

During the second half of this century a multitude of investigations has achieved oj demonstrate scientifically what is suspected by data from the daily observation. One of the first epidemiological studies was developed in England at the beginning of the 1950S by Jeremy Morris, who exercised its medical activity among the public employees in London. Noted for a long time to drivers of buses and compared their developments medical with that of the guards, who sold the tickets and walked permanently by the vehicle going up and down the stairs. The drivers, they were always seated, had a 35 percent more strokes of myocardium that the guards. In the United States, Dr. Paffenbarger continued during more than 30 years the evolution of the pupils of the Harvard University and found that those who still doing physical exercises after your period of student had a live longer, with about 40 percent less strokes that alumni sedentary. The 1970S was extensive research on the effects of physical exercise in health. The Cooper Clinic in Texas, led research projects that were changing the habits of millions of people into a life more active and promoted prevention programs in public health where the exercise figured prominently.

In recent years, the attention of the doctors cardiologists focused on a very important study done in US with more than 70 thousand nurses. Could be observed that, after 8 years, women who walked more than 3 hours a week had 35 percent less diseases of the coronary arteries that their partners sedentary.

To this research joined recent publications that showed a 50 percent reduction in mortality to 12 years between older men who carried out walks to 30 0 more blocks per day. In our country, the study FRICASSEE was able to demonstrate that the level of sedentary was highest among people who had had a myocardial infarction.

The variety of studies that established the intimate association between physical activity and cardiovascular health led to the American Heart Association to declare the sedentary as a major risk factor for the development of cardiovascular disease. Heart disease and the arteries occupy a sad first as a cause of death in the western world. In its emergence and development are involved multiple risk factors within which the smoking, the alterations of cholesterol, the arterial hypertension, a sedentary, diabetes, the mental stress and the obesity occupy a place of relevance.

The regular physical exercise helps to combat all these factors and even more, to act directly on the heart and blood vessels, is one of the most effective elements to prevent the appearance and the progression of the disease. In people who have already suffered a heart disease, it has been found that the exercise works in the treatment, improving the quality and quantity of years lived.

The benefits of physical exercise are not only related to the prevention of heart disease. The individuals who bear a style of life more asset is “feel better” and produce in your body resistance than before the various assaults that life and the passage of years cause. The people who maintain an active life arrive at older ages with better predisposition to work and reduced dependence on those who surround them.

They have found beneficial effects of the year on the conservation of the density of the bones with a high impact on the prevention of osteoporosis. Different joint pains and muscles are relieved by special sessions of exercises and the active life prevents the emergence of this type of inconvenience.

The venous disorders of the leg found in physical activity one of the most important and proven forms of treatment. The physical discomfort and the cosmetic problems that generates the venous insufficiency in thousands of women can be prevented and treated with appropriate programs of physical exercises.

But not everything ends here: there is a positive relationship between the immune system (the body’s defenses) and physical activity. Several epidemiological studies have exposed the lowest prevalence of different forms of cancer among people physically active. Recent experiences have suggested that women who perform physical exercises regularly would lower predisposition to breast tumors and uterus. The physical activity is a vital tool in the prevention and treatment of diabetes. On the other hand, is an indisputable element in the therapeutic of hypertension.