WHAT ARE THE ADVANTAGES OF EXERCISE?
Regular, moderate exercise has many of the same advantages for people with HIV disease as it does for most people. Exercise can:
- Improve muscle mass, strength and endurance
- Improve heart and lung endurance
- Improve your energy level so you feel less tired
- Reduce stress
- Enhance your sense of well-being.
- Help stabilize or prevent declines in CD4 cell counts. See Fact Sheet 124 for more information on CD4 cells.
- Increase bone strength
- Decrease cholesterol and triglycerides (see fact sheet 123)
- Decrease fat in the abdomen
- Improve appetite
- Improve sleep
- Improve the way the body uses and controls blood sugar (glucose)
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