SWIMMING IS BEST FOR HEALTH

                            SWIMMING IS SWELL FOR THE HEART

For exercise that's as heart healthy as jogging but spares your joints undue wear and tear,try swimming.

   Researches at the university of Texas health science center,Dallas,put a group of previously inactive middle-aged adults through 12 weeks of intense swim training.They swam six days a week and trained with weights three days.At study end there cardiovascular fitness had improved considerably.Maximal oxygen up take increased by an average of about 20 percent.Plus each contraction of the heart muscle pumped a greater volume of blood through the arteries without elevating blood pressure.

BENEFIT OF EXERCISE

             BIG BENEFIT OF EXERCISE FOR HEART ATTACK VICTIMS

Before 1950,doctors prescribed bed rest--and lots of it for any one who would suffered a heart attack.Now they recommend a progressive ,medically supervised program of exercise,along with dietary changes,smoking cessation,relaxation training,and stress reduction.
   In fact studies have found that heart attack victims who are put on a rehabilitation program that includes exercise are less likely to die from a second heart attack.Researches came to this conclusion after following more than 4,500 heart attack victims over three years.

  If you have a heart attack,you can expect an exercise that as early as two weeks afterward to test your tolerance for exertion.Then you will be prescribed a regimen designed to gradually build up your heart to working at 85 percent of maximum capacity.And you will be expected to follow this strategy for the rest of your (hopefully long)life.
 Doctors now says that a combination of early detection,immediate treatment,follow up drug therapy,diet modification,and exercise can improve the quality and perhaps the quantity of life for people who've had heart attacks.