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Keeping physically active can help protect an individual from heart disease and stroke, high blood pressure, noninsulin-dependent diabetes, obesity, back pain, osteoporosis, and can improve mood and help manage stress in a better way.

Run on treadmill to curb craving for marijuana
Now, Vanderbilt University researchers suggest that exercising can curb craving for drugs like marijuana.

Exercise is the most inexpensive way to reduce the economic expenditure on recovering from the disease which includes both direct and indirect costs.

"The physically active always brag that they're sick less than sedentary people," said lead researcher David C. Nieman, director of the Human Performance Laboratory at the Appalachian State University, North Carolina Research Campus, in Kannapolis, N.C.

"Indeed, this boast of active people that they are sick less often is really true," he asserted.

1002 people surveyed

The study conducted by the scientists from the epidemiology department at the University of Pittsburgh aimed at analyzing the number of falls experienced by people and the various causes leading to the falls.

10615 people studied
The researchers looked at the data of 10615 people who had participated in the Aerobics Center Longitudinal Study from 1970 to 1989 and in a follow-up survey conducted in 1990.

They were asked if they had had a fall in the previous year and the activity during which they fell.