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"But if you are like many Americans, you are busy, you have a sedentary job, and you haven't yet changed your exercise habits. " (HABITS)

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"[Exercise] improves the surveillance activity of the immune system,” review author David Nieman, Dr.PH., health professor at Appalachian State University and director of the Human Performance Lab at the North Carolina Research Campus told Runner’s World.
That’s because each time you exercise, the activity increases the exchange of important white blood cells between peripheral tissues—which help with the body’s immune response—and the circulation (blood and lymph vessels). This increases the activity of immune cells in the bloodstream looking for viruses, Nieman said."

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"Our body requires 30 to 60 minutes of exercise daily. It could be in the form of a run, a walk, a swim or even some yoga. Being inactive can weaken your immune system. Working out daily can improve your body's defence system and help you fight off diseases. It can also reduce the chances of any respiratory problems. Working out can help accelerate the exchange of white blood cells and the peripheral tissues and the blood vessels as well as the lymph vessels which can improve the activity of the immune cells. It also helps us recover quickly from viruses and infections, especially respiratory infections."

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"One-third of COVID-19 patients who died in Italy had heart disease."

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"'The fever associated with COVID-19 puts additional strain on the body’s metabolic demands, stressing out the already weakened heart,'"

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"Exercising 30 to 60 minutes a day is enough to trigger this immune response, Nieman says. Compared to staying sedentary, "our data show that this amount of exercise decreases sick days up to 50 percent," he says, citing his research published in April 2011 in the American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine. A May 2017 study from PLOS One came to a similar conclusion that less active people reported more sick days."

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