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your likelihood of suffering from cardiovascular

disease and cancers which are the number one and

number two causes of death in America. Likewise,
exercise has been shown to prevent and cure type 2

diabetes. Diabetes is a common cause of death and

the number one cause of blindness and
amputations. And there are numerous other

benefits that flow from keeping yourself physically

fit, strong, and healthy. Once fit, you will enjoy the
probability of greater longevity. If you live an

additional ten or twenty years, your investments

can double a couple of times more, making you
perhaps four times as wealthy. So it’s a win-win-win

situation. We encourage everyone to be as physically

fit as they would like to be. Here are several types of
fitness.

There are a number of different kinds of
fitness. I’ll name just five of them and will say a few

words about each kind.

They are the following:

1. Aerobic fitness

2. Strength fitness

3. Flexibility
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