• Help you control your weight. Along with diet, exercise plays an important role in controlling your weight and preventing obesity. To maintain your weight, the calories you eat and drink must equal the energy you burn. To lose weight, you must use more calories than you eat and drink.

• Reduce your risk of heart diseases. Exercise strengthens your heart and improves your circulation. The increased blood flow raises the oxygen levels in your body. This helps lower your risk of heart diseases such as high cholesterol, coronary artery disease, and heart attack. Regular exercise can also lower your blood pressure and triglyceride levels.

• Help your body manage blood sugar and insulin levels. Exercise can lower your blood sugarlevel and help your insulin work better. This can cut down your risk for metabolic syndrome and type 2 diabetes. And if you already have one of those diseases, exercise can help you to manage it.

• Help you quit smoking. Exercise may make it easier to quit smoking by reducing your cravings and withdrawal symptoms. It can also help limit the weight you might gain when you stop smoking.

• Improve your mental health and mood. During exercise, your body releases chemicals that can improve your mood and make you feel more relaxed. This can help you deal with stress and reduce your risk of depression.

• Help keep your thinking, learning, and judgment skills sharp as you age. Exercise stimulates your body to release proteins and other chemicals that improve the structure and function of your brain.

Blood pressure is the force that moves blood through our circulatory system.

It is an important force because oxygen and nutrients would not be pushed around our circulatory system to nourish tissues and organs without blood pressure.

Blood pressure is also vital because it delivers white blood cells and antibodies for immunity, and hormones such as insulin.

Just as important as providing oxygen and nutrients, the fresh blood that gets delivered is able to pick up the toxic waste products of metabolism, including the carbon dioxide we exhale with every breath, and the toxins we clear through our liver and kidneys.

Blood itself carries a number of other properties, including its temperature. It also carries one of our defenses against tissue damage, the clotting platelets that prevent blood loss following injury.

But what exactly is it that causes blood to exert a pressure in our arteries? Part of the answer is simple - the heart creates blood pressure by forcing out blood when it contracts with every heartbeat. Blood pressure, however, cannot be created solely by the pumping heart

Our circulation is similar to a highly sophisticated form of plumbing - blood has 'flow' and arteries are 'pipes.' A basic law of physics gives rise to our blood flow, and this law also applies in a garden hose pipe.

Blood flows through our body because of a difference in pressure.

Our blood pressure is highest at the start of its journey from our heart - when it enters the aorta - and it is lowest at the end of its journey along progressively smaller branches of arteries. That pressure difference is what causes blood to flow around our bodies.

Arteries affect blood pressure in a similar way to the physical properties of a garden hose pipe affecting water pressure. Constricting the pipe increases pressure at the point of constriction.

Without the elastic nature of the artery walls, for example, the pressure of the blood would fall away more quickly as it is pumped from the heart.

While the heart creates the maximum pressure, the properties of the arteries are just as important to maintaining it and allowing blood to flow throughout the body.

The condition of the arteries affects blood pressure and flow, and narrowing of the arteries can eventually block the supply altogether, leading to dangerous conditions including stroke and heart attack.

Pada 16 September yang lalu, Bengkel Roti dan Kek yang dikendalikan oleh Cikgu Zaida telah diadakan di Pusat Ekonomi Digital Keluarga Malaysia(Pedi) Pekan Marudi. Bengkel ini dibahagikan kepada 2 sesi iaitu bengkel roti dan bengkel kek. Penyertaan bagi setiap sesi ialah sebanyak 21 orang dan 12 orang.

Tujuan

Tujuan bengkel ini diadakan adalah untuk memberi peluang kepada peserta mempelajari bagaimana untuk menghasilkan kek dan roti sekaligus dapat membantu peserta yang sebahagian besar merupakan golongan surirumah menjana pendapatan sendiri dan menjadi usahawan berjaya. 

Aktiviti

1. Menghasilkan pelbagai jenis roti seperti roti caterpilla, roti sosej, roti serunding ayam, roti sarang lebah dan roti crab cheese.

2. Antara menu kek termasuklah kek oreo, kek strawberry, kek manggo, kek blueberry dan kek orange.

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