{"id":14343,"date":"2012-06-04T09:32:01","date_gmt":"2012-06-04T14:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fitzness.com\/blog\/?p=14343"},"modified":"2014-10-29T10:27:22","modified_gmt":"2014-10-29T15:27:22","slug":"hit-the-ground-running-to-beat-migraines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fitzness.com\/blog\/hit-the-ground-running-to-beat-migraines\/","title":{"rendered":"Hit the Ground Running to Beat Migraines"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Regular exercise is the ultimate form of preventive medicine. In addition to weight loss benefits, exercising a few times a week has been shown to reduce the risk of heart disease, diabetes, stroke,\u00a0Alzheimer’s, and depression. Well, we can add one more long term health benefit to the list; fewer headaches.<\/p>\n

Swedish researchers found that 40 minutes of exercise performed three times a week reduced the number of headaches experienced my migraine sufferers in a given month. It might not sound like a huge gain, but the regular exercise proved just as effective as common prescription medication used to treat migraines.<\/p>\n

If you’ve been battling with migraines lace up you sneakers and hit the road!<\/p>\n

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