Friday, July 20, 2012


Increased circulation through exercise delivers oxygen and nutrients to skin cells more effectively, while flushing harmful toxins out. Exercise also creates an ideal environment within the body to optimise collagen production, helping reduce the appearance of wrinkles and speed up the healing process.
                                                         | Dermatologist Dr Christopher Rowland Payne 




Physical activity helps decrease the time it takes food to move through the large intestine, limiting the amount of water absorbed back into your body and leaving you with softer stools, which are easier to pass
                        | Harley Street Gastroenterologist Dr Ana Raimundo



Cycling helps build new brain cells in the hippocampus – the region responsible for memory, which deteriorates from the age of 30.


Moderate exercise makes immune cells more active, so they’re ready to fight off infection


           | Cath Collins:: chief dietician at St George’s Hospital in London.


In fact, according to research from the University of North Carolina, people who cycle for 30 minutes, five days a week take about half as many sick days as couch potatoes.

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