Check with your doctor to make sure you're ok
Exercise is usually good---but if you're older and overweight, check in with your doctor, before AND after you've started.
You keep hearing that exercise is good for you---but not so fast!
It turns out if you're middle aged to older, sedentary and overweight (like most people in the US) your risk factors for blood pressure, high cholesterol (HDL), triglycerides and fasting insulin levels could go UP instead of down.
Not one study but actually six separate ones indicate that regular exercise actually worsened disase risk factors for about ten percent of the study groups.
Bottom line, according to our medical researcher Dr. Rich O'Neill (Psychology consutant at Upstate University Hospital)---
If you are sedentary, have a doctor check your risk factors before you start your exercise program, and then check again, awhile after starting, to make sure you're going in the right direction.
