Exercise is crucial to take years off your age and to improve your health.If we do not move around, then our entire body physiology changes for the worse. This is due to the fact that our entire body runs on motion. We are created to move around constantly.Moving stimulates weight loss by increasing your metabolism ten fold.

Muscle is the most metabolically active tissue in your body.Our bodies were not designed to just sit around and watch TV all day. Our ancestors were hunter/gatherers and were forced to walk an average of 9 miles a day. Their physical fitness levels were the equivalent to today’s professional athletes. During that time, it was survival of the fittest.

We have a different choice now: Be fit or be fat, and die a painful slow death filled with disease.Statistics show that 50% of people in the U.S. have heart attacks. By following a green weight loss program, you are able to lose weight naturally and permanently. Exercise is a crucial part of living a “green” lifestyle. Exercise should be performed with a wide variety of activities. Your goal is functional movement that not only makes you look younger, but will also protect you from injuries.Studies have been done where the heart was worked at a variety of intervals. Not just long distance running, not just sprinting, but a combination. Here are three simple strategies to use exercise while working to enhance your metabolism:

• Walk as much as you can wherever you go. For example, park your car in the parking spaces far away from the store.

• Take the stairs instead of the elevator.

• Buy a pilates video and start doing it 4 times a week.

• When doing cardio, try running in intervals. Go fast for minute and then slow for two minutes then fast for thirty seconds then slow for one minute and so forth.

Following a green weight loss program will not only melt fat away, but your health will improve.

Dr Charles Livingston is a structure/function doctor who specializes in advanced nutrition and weight loss. He is also the author and creator of http://www.greenlifeweightloss.com which teaches healthy “green” principles for shedding weight fast naturally.