Sarah O’Rourke
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Fitness and being active has a very positive effect on the body as well as the mind.“Many people hit the gym or pound the pavement to improve cardiovascular health, build muscle, and of course, get a rockin’ bod, but working out has above-the-neck benefits too.” (Greatist.com "13 Unexpected Benefits of Exercise" 2013) Staying physically active is essential to living a healthy, long life. When you exercise, different things happen throughout your entire body from head to toe. Whether you believe it or not, working out can truly change you. From promoting strong, long term memory, to helping with serious mental disorders, for the mind, exercise has its benefits. After just 30 minutes of exercise, people’s mind and memory improve by getting your heart pumping.
By helping to produce chemicals which fight damaging inflammation of the brain,exercising can also prevent Alzheimer’s. Almost any type of movement that gets your heart working reduces the chances of dementia, and it was proven that regular exercise in midlife was associated with lower levels of cognitive problems.
As well as dementia, working out can also help mental disorders like schizophrenia, anxiety, depression, and ADHD. When it comes to schizophrenia, exercise helps with giving them an ability to understand social situations, a working memory,and improve attention span. When exercising with anxiety, and/or depression, it takes your mind off worries, improves your confidence and social
When an individual engages in physical activity, it decreases the sedentary life, promotes healthy emotional well being while maintaining a healthy body weight. Physical fitness is very important in order to be fit an individual must us proper nutrition. The effect various based on the nutrients that affect the body. When the body needs to repair and grow it uses protein. The body uses carbohydrates during physical activity as an energy source. When an individual is fit the body uses its nutrition to help heal and main certain hydration when conducting physical activity. Healthy physical activity helps the individual sleepy at night, possible live longer, feel better, healthy weight.
Regular exercise has many benefits Exercise also helps to protect against depression, and helps you better manage stress.
Physical activity is able to shift neurons in your brain from a revved, stressed state-more vulnerable to dangerous cardiac rhythms and heart attacks-to a relaxed state.
Those in the intervention group reported a higher satisfaction in their quality of life than those in the control group. Physical health benefits such as an increase of VO2max and minutes engaged in physical activity. Overall, the results suggest that exercise can potentially be used to increase the quality of life, physical fitness level, and improve mental state.
Sub-Point a:According to CDC.gov in there June, 2015 issue on physical activity, Regular physical activity can help you keep your thinking and judge mental skills sharp. Research shows that doing aerobic exercises can give you great mental benefits. Some scientific evidence also have shown even if you were to do lower levels of exercise it still will be beneficial to you.
There are the studies in human show that doing soft exercise can decrease the risk of cognitive impairment when compared to those people who not doing any kind of exercise (Gregory,Parker,&Thompson,2012), and it suggests those people who always work out usually have a good mental health implicitly (Gregory,Parker,&Thompson,2012). When you regular doing exercise, your brain function will be improved and the communication between neurons will be good working (Gregory,Parker,&Thompson,2012). Doing exercise is suitable for older adults to enhance their physical health and boots their brain function, however, it also causes the pain in some
In the book, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and The Brain by Dr. John J. Ratey, MD (2008), Ratey discuses how exercise can help treat many mood disorders and how it can help strengthen our brains. This book is divided into ten chapters all with five to ten subsections in them. The chapters include: Welcome to the revolution: A Case Study on Exercise and the brain, Learning, Stress, Anxiety, Depression, Attention Deficit, Addiction, Hormonal Changers, Aging, and the Regimen.
of physical exertion. Regular physical activity has significant health benefits, and even modest increases in energy expenditure can have health enhancing effects.
Due to the inconsistency between studies there is no definitive exercise dosage or type that can aid in protection against dementia. However, from the evidence provided it suggests that higher levels of exercise can be used as a neuroprotective mechanism to prevent the onset of
physical exercise is a cornerstone in the management of many neurodegenerative disorders, such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Parkinson, Alzheimer, and Huntington.
But in the article Strong Body Helps the Mind, the author, Stephen Ornes said, “ A good workout doesn't just make the body stronger. It also produces a chemical that may keep depression away.” Also in the article Strong Body Helps the Mind the the author addressed, “ The study also may point to new ways to treat brain disorders, he adds.” So this means exercise actually does helps the
Do you have some big exam coming up? Or some lab report due Thursday? You should probably workout and study at the same time. The article “Exercise Build Brawn -- and Brains” by Esther Landhuis is about working out in small increments everyday will increase your mental health. The second article “Strong Body Helps the Mind” by Stephen Ornes is about the greater amount of exercise the smarter you become.
The benefits of physical exercise in humans far outweighs the harmful effects associated with exercise. A prescription of physical activity has been known to delay the onset or prevention of many chronic diseases. An improvement in heart function, lower blood pressure and improve functional capacity is noticed after just a few weeks of exercising. Physical activity will also result in an increase of lean muscle mass, promote weight maintenance, increased flexibility, and a generally stronger more fit individual. Conversely, exercise when preformed strenuously or obsessively can counteract such positive effects, bringing up some issues like oxidative stresses, injuries, and
The articles by Erikson et al., Gatz, Korol et al., and Draganski et al. explore the concept of increased physical activity and/or mental activity having effects on the cognitive function and development or deterioration of the brain as we age. Although I agree that physical exercise is critical in increasing cognitive function because of the health benefits it provides, as well as the increased blood flow and circulation throughout the body, I ultimately believe that a healthy brain is not achieved solely by physical exercise or mental exercise, but both. I think there is a link between physical and mental exercise, and that the combination of these two activities creates higher cognitive functioning of the mind as well as the body. The mind and body come together and meet to make an overall healthy individual.
Exercise may be one of the most important influences on your overall health to date. While the only benefits that are mainly focused on are the physical benefits, significant psychological impacts can also be linked to exercise. Although some of these benefits aren’t viewed with much enthusiasm, studies have proven that exercise can actually improve one’s quality of life greatly by increasing not only their physical health but their mental health as well. It is because of this that exercise is a