HELP 18 POINTS Journal prompt to be answered in 2 fully developed paragraphs

Prompt: How does physical activity prevent disease and reduce health care costs? Use specific examples from your experience.

The benefits of exercise extend far beyond weight management. Research shows that regular physical activity can help reduce your risk for several diseases and health conditions and improve your overall quality of life. Daily physical activity can help prevent heart disease and stroke by strengthening your heart muscle, lowering your blood pressure, raising your high-density lipoprotein levels and lowering low-density lipoprotein levels, improving blood flow, and increasing your heart's working capacity. Optimizing each of these factors can provide additional benefits of decreasing the risk for Peripheral Vascular Disease.

Physical activity helps to reduce body fat by building or preserving muscle mass and improving the body's ability to use calories. When physical activity is combined with proper nutrition, it can help control weight and prevent obesity, a major risk factor for many diseases. Physical activity reduces health care costs because it prevents diseases and aids your overall health, making it less probable of going to the doctor and spending money. Since I started working out, I have been feeling much happier and less tired. I get less headaches and my insomnia has gotten better as-well. Thanks to physical activity I haven’t gone to the doctor's office as much as I used to and have been spending less on appointments and medicine.

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