Benefits of Physical Activity
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Presented
Shelby Morose and Scooter Limmer
Mental Benefits of Physical Activity
-Mental and behavioral disorders are estimated to account for
13.0% of the global burden of disease, yet most countries spend
less than 1% of their health budget on mental health.
-Regular Exercise can help preventative mental disorders from
developing. (Exercise 3 or more times a week for 30mins+)
• Major depression 13% reduced to 8%
• Anxiety disorders 5% to 3%
• Social phobia 11% to 7%
• Generalized anxiety disorder 4% to 2%
• Panic attacks 6% to 3%
Physical Activity as Prevention of Mental
Disorders.
• Physical activity as a population-level mental
disorder prevention strategy has not yet been
studied extensively.
• Persons who had become physically active over a 3
year interval had positive changes in emotional wellbeing while the opposite was true for those who had
become less active.
• Physical activity can make children feel good and
enhance their sense of self-esteem.
Increasing physical activity in
populations
• Encouragement at ‘‘points of decision’’ ,
posters near elevators to encourage people to
use stairs, community-wide, highly visible,
multiple intervention, approaches self-help
groups, and policy changes.
• School-based physical education, social
support in community settings.
Physical Activities as Health Beneficio!!
• Physical inactivity is a modifiable risk factor for
cardiovascular disease and a widening variety of
other chronic diseases, including diabetes, cancer
(colon and breast), obesity, hypertension, bone and
joint diseases (osteoporosis and osteoarthritis), and
depression.
• Both men and women who reported increased levels
of physical activity and fitness were found to have
reductions in relative risk by about 20%–35% of early
death
Benefits of being active
• Improves your chances of living longer and living
healthier
• Helps protect from developing trends for heart
disease for the future
• Reduces the risk of falling
• Improves the cognitive function of older adults
• http://nihseniorhealth.gov/exerciseforolderadults/he
althbenefits/01.html
Cost of Inactivity
• Increases the chances of becoming overweight and
developing chronic diseases.
• Inactivity was associated with over 9 million cases of
cardiovascular disease in 2001. (its probsies worse
now)
• Recent studies have shown that people who sit and
watch television extensively have a greater chance of
dying earlier.
• A study(Nurses Health Study) showed that every two
hours that women spend watching TV they have a 23 %
chance higher of becoming obese and 14% chance
higher of developing diabetes.
Simple ways to become active
• http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xe9qte_h
ow-to-start-being-physically-activ_lifestyle
• Make a habit of walking or cycling instead of
driving
• Take the stairs instead of the elevator
• DO YARD WORK SON
• Take a pet for a stroll in the park
• Have walk meetings instead of sit meetings
Simple ways cont.
• Disconnect your TV cable for the summer
• Clean your house regularly
• Park far from the entrance to stores or school
for the extra walk
• Drink all the water
• POSITIVE ATTITUDE, only you can prevent fat
from happening!!!
Activity TIME WOOOO!!!!
So Everyone Stand Up!
Sources for our amazing Slide Show
• Saxena, S. S., van Ommeren, M. M., Tang, K. C., & Armstrong, T. P. (2005).
Mental health benefits of physical activity. Journal Of Mental Health,
14(5), 445-451.
• Nurses Health Study
• "The Benefits of Physical Activity - Staying Active - The Nutrition Source Harvard School of Public Health ."Harvard School of Public Health - HSPH.
N.p., n.d. Web. 8 Oct. 2012.
<http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/staying-active/stayingactive-full-story/#start-slow>.
• "Ten simple ways to become more physically active." OBESITY PANACEA.
N.p., n.d. Web. 8 Oct. 2012.
<http://www.obesitypanacea.com/2009/05/ten-simple-ways-to-becomemore.html>.
• "How to start - Tips for getting active - Sport and Recreation." Home Sport and Recreation. N.p., n.d. Web. 8 Oct. 2012.
http://www.dsr.nsw.gov.au/active/tips_start.asp