Exercise and healthy eating are two of the most important things you need to do to take care of your body properly. Both exercise and healthy eating have many advantages and benefits. They help with multiple things needed throughout your life. These things include physical, mental, and, if you are religious, even spiritual growth. All of this helps keep your body functioning in the best and highest way possible. Exercise or physical activity helps your body in many ways. For example, exercise helps control a human's weight. It helps prevent unwanted weight gain and helps people who have unwanted weight lose it. (mayoclinic.com) When we eat, we take in calories, and then when we do physical activity we burn those calories eaten before. This helps us control the amount of calories by burning them, otherwise our body would have stored them as fat. (fitday.com) Another thing that exercise does to help your body is fight health conditions and diseases. Physical activity, regardless of current weight, increases HDL or high-density lipoprotein, or the good cholesterol present in the body. Harmful triglycerides also decrease when you exercise. These things help the blood flow more smoothly and, in turn, reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease. Exercise also helps reduce heart disease, asthma, diabetes and many other diseases present in the body. (mayoclinic.com) Improving your mood and increasing your energy also comes from exercise. Physical activity activates several chemicals in your brain that make you happier and more relaxed. When exercise is done regularly, it can also lead a person to gain more self-esteem and have more confidence in their appearance. Also,...... middle of paper... people who eat a lot of protein and people who suffer from kidney stones. Another link between people's diet and kidney stones is salt. Eating too much salt increases the amount of calcium in your urine, which in turn increases your risk of developing kidney stones. It's not just what we eat that matters, but also how much we eat. If we eat our portions in moderation and eat the right things, we will be less likely to develop kidney stones. The nutrients we get from eating fruits and vegetables are also very important in our daily diet. When we eat something we get nutrients from it, but the question is: are we eating too much? Too much of a good thing can be bad! Different vitamins have many different purposes, Vitamin A keeps your eyes and skin healthy and helps protect against infections. Vitamin C helps heal cuts and wounds and keeps teeth and gums healthy.