Like your organs, tissues etc. if you don’t workout for long periods of time at all.
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As we grow older our bodies metabolism slows down which means it takes longer to burn calories we eat in food. Our bodies end up storing them as fat.
A “sedentary” lifestyle is linked to diseases such as diabetes heart disease obesity.
The body needs things like sugar and salt and fat but if we have them in excess it ends up harming us. Sugar gets into the fine arteries of the eye and it rots them leading to blindness and limb amputation. Salt retains water and raises blood pressure. Fat low density lipoproteins collect inside the artery wall and restrict blood flow possibly causing heart attack and stroke.
Exercise, physical activity burns calories burst fat
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