10 health benefits of jogging

1. General fitness: Also known as cardiovascular fitness, this refers to the general wellbeing of one's circulatory and vascular systems within the body. Basically, we're talking about the heart, the lungs and the veins and arteries, the systems that carry oxygen throughout the body. Jogging and exercise keep a human body generally fit, thus helping to disperse oxygen throughout the body, and this has all kinds of benefits.
2. Cholesterol: Cholesterol can build up as plaque within a person's arteries, which can lead to heart disease or even a heart attack. How does jogging help with this? By keeping that cardiovascular system in good shape. Since jogging helps with the spread of oxygen throughout the body, that oxygen helps the bloodstream to build good cholesterol. Good cholesterol is important because it fights at removing bad cholesterol from the bloodstream and takes it to the liver where the bad cholesterol can be processed out of the body.
3. Bone strength: Jogging helps with this, too. Jogging, or any weight-bearing exercise, adds physical stress onto the bones. The body will work back against this stress by making the bones stronger and less brittle.
4. Blood pressure: Remember all that oxygen that can spread through the body, and how jogging helps with that? Cardiovascular fitness also helps with blood pressure.
5. Cancer: Jogging is just one form of general exercise, and exercise is known to lower one's chances of contracting any forms of cancer, perhaps even lowering one's chances as much as 50 percent.
6. Diabetes: Exercise, including jogging, helps to keep a person in good physical condition, and this can help stave off diabetes. But even for those who already suffer from diabetes, regular jogging can help to keep the diabetes in check somewhat.
7. Endurance: We're back to all that oxygen again. Oxygen in the bloodstream helps the body to better utilize the energy the body derives from food. Which means more oxygen, more energy. And what helps to do all that? Jogging.
8. Losing weight: Jogging burns calories and fat, and it builds muscular strength. Which are both important in losing weight for better general health. But since jogging also helps with endurance, that's also important for losing weight.
9. Mental fitness: Yes, jogging can even improve your mental fitness and put you in a better mood. How? Jogging, and other forms of exercise, bring about a release of special hormones in the body. These hormones are known as endorphins, and they are known to make a person feel good, kind of like getting a rush. Also, simply being in better shape physically can make a person feel better about themselves. If nothing else, the time spent jogging allows a person time to think about issues in their life, to deal with problems, etc.
10. Sleep: Jogging makes the body tired while also putting one in a better frame of mind. Counting that and the added benefits of better health means better sleep for you tonight.