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Dr Agaston reports in March 2010 Prevention Magazine that Interval Training, total-body, nonimpact sports and weight training ranks the best types of exercise with him. Interval training for it’s benefit to both the heart and overall health. It continuously raises and lowers your heart rate and improves vascular function, burns calories and makes the body more efficient at clearing fat and sugar from the blood. With total-body, nonimpact sports – the more muscles involved in an activity, the harder the heart must work to fuel them all, so it grows stronger itself and weight training is a type of interval training.

Did you know that as soon as 20 minutes of having your last cigarette, your heart rate and blood pressure (revved by the nicotine in tobacco) start to drop. By 12 hours, toxic carbon monoxide, or CO, in your blood from the cigarette smoke decreases and oxygen levels increase, improving cell health and circulation. Just a 1% rise in carbon monoxide in your blood ups your risk of tobacco-related death by 22%. Lung function improves in about 2 weeks after quitting. Within 5 to 10 years, the risk of dying from respiratory disease is cut by 18%; from lung cancer by 21%. A 2005 study showed that even those with mild lung disease, quitters had a 46% lower death rate...

ScienceDaily (May 18, 2011) — Children whose mothers or grandmothers smoked during pregnancy are at increased risk of asthma in childhood, but the underlying causes of this are not well understood. Now a new study indicates changes in a process called DNA methylation that occurs before birth may be a root cause. Another great reason to quit smoking now, with Nutratec’s Vice Breaker. Source:sciencedaily.com

WASHINGTON DC, United States—Those first few puffs on a cigarette can within minutes cause genetic damage linked to cancer, US scientists said in a study released Saturday For entire article click on link below. Source:rawstory.com