Jogging, running, or walking are the best forms of exercise because they use large muscles and make you support your own weight. Bicycling and swimming are the next best. Heart gains depend on a long-term commitment to consistent exercise. Regular exercise is correlated with a lower prevalence of breast, colon, bowel and lung cancer. Regular exercise is correlated with a lower prevalence of colon, bowel, cancer and possibly stimulates the production of cancer-inhibiting agents and helps move potential toxins through the colon, lungs and other organs more rapidly.
Regular exercise can prevent maturity onset diabetes.
Physical activity allows muscles to remain more responsive to insulin , the hormone that regulates the metabolism of sugar and its entry into muscle cells and other tissues. Regular exercise can lessen the chances that fat tissue will collect around your abdomen. This weight distribution pattern, common in many women after menopause, has been associated with an increase risk for heart disease, stroke, diabetes and other metabolic disorders. If you have no outstanding health problems that could benefit from hormone replacement therapy, it may be far more important to concentrate on exercise and diet in your postmenopausal years than to take hormones on the assumption that they'll magically shield you from illness in later life. There are no substitutes for the benefits derived from diet and physical activity.