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Is exercising and playing sports effective to make good habits? (Choice: Website)

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Is exercising and playing sports effective to make good habits? (Choice: Website)

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The website directly answers this question, stating how training and sports can help with discipline and being a better person. Also being more caring in self care, and directly help the body have healthier habits. "Participation in sports, with or without competition, promotes healthy behavior and a better quality of life." "There is a strong scientific evidence supporting an association between physical exercise / training and good physical and mental health." Having good mental health can lead to better habits.

Currency: Not too outdated, being posted May 13rd, 2019.

Relevance: Very relevant, maybe too relevant as it answers a lot of questions, and tells about everything there is to physical activity.

Authority: This was posted by the National Library of Medicine. Which is a National Center for Biotechnology Information.

Accuracy: This was posted by the National Library of Medicine. Which is a National Center for Biotechnology Information. Also has many graphs and data supporting. Also has 210 sources.

Purpose: To give very clear factual date about physical activity and sports. Both good and bad.

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Physical Activity and Sports—Real Health Benefits: A Review with Insight into the Public Health of Sweden

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Positive effects from sports are achieved primarily through physical activity, but secondary effects bring health benefits such as psychosocial and personal development and less alcohol consumption. Negative effects, such as the risk of failure, injuries,…

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What are common teen bad habits? (Choice: Website)

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What are common teen bad habits? (Choice: Website)

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Some common overall bad habits found in teens can be the following.

1. Poor overall diet quality

2. Not meeting national physical activity guidelines

3. Spending too much time looking at screens outside of school/homework

4. Eating fast food three or more times a week

5. Smoking

These are all bad things that are commonly found bad teen habits that are leading to bad habits and physical/mental development.

1. Currency: Posted Jan 21, 2020. This is slight red-flag as today there are new adaptations and new trends of bad habits.

2. Relevance: This is pretty relevant because it is decently recent, slightly outdated but it is not that big of a deal. Also talks about my topic or question directly.

3. Authority: It was posted by Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. The person who wrote it is a certified doctor with a PhD and MHS.

4. Accuracy: It was posted by a official hospital so the information is accurate. Also, the person who wrote it has a PhD and a MHS.

5. Purpose: To firstly inform about bad habits, and then go on to help people find ways to solve this. Mostly parents it seems that are worried about their kids/teens.

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Unhealthy behaviors like poor diet, physical inactivity, and smoking put children at risk for developing heart disease, diabetes and cancer later in life. In fact, nearly two-thirds of all heart disease deaths worldwide can be attributed to unhealthy behaviors. While these diseases are typically diagnosed in adulthood, the unhealthy behaviors that lead to them often begin in childhood and adolescence. This gives pediatric providers and public health experts an important opportunity to intervene early to prevent these diseases.

In order to identify the most promising prevention opportunities, we need to have a clearer picture of the health behaviors of youth as they grow. As an epidemiologist whose research focuses on preventing heart disease, I am particularly interested in how common unhealthy behaviors are among kids and teens, whether youth engage in multiple unhealthy behaviors and whether there are differences by age.

To answer these questions, my colleagues and I turned to nationally representative data from more than 7,000 youth to look at five unhealthy behavior patterns:

poor overall diet quality

not meeting national physical activity guidelines

spending more than two hours per day on screen time outside of school/homework

eating fast food three or more times per week

smoking cigarettes (among teens only)

We looked at behaviors alone and in combination, and at patterns across age groups.

How common are unhealthy behaviors among kids and teens?

We found that more than half of older children and teens exceeded recommendations for daily screen time (more than two hours for activities other than school/homework), which was the most common unhealthy behavior. Nearly as many had unhealthy overall diets. There are many ways to eat a healthy diet-for example, by eating lots of fruits and vegetables and limiting sugar-sweetened beverages. In our study, we defined "unhealthy diet" based on an overall score that reflected how closely children's diets aligned to national recommendations for 13 different types of food. While screen time and unhealthy dietary patterns increased with age and were especially common among 16-19 year olds, they were not unique to teens. We also found that these patterns emerged very early in life, with more than one-third of 2-5 year olds already experiencing unhealthy diets and excessive screen time.

Adapted from: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S009174351930372X?via%3Dihub

Additionally, more than half of teens did not meet national guidelines for physical activity, a pattern that was most pronounced in 12-15 year olds. Nearly one-third of 16-19 year olds reported eating fast food three or more times per week, with much lower percentages in younger age groups. And smoking was relatively uncommon-this is consistent with other national data indicating cigarette smoking has declined, while vaping has risen dramatically.

Across the data, many children and teens had multiple unhealthy behaviors, a pattern which increased with age from nearly 30% of 2-5 year olds to a staggering 74% of 16-19 year olds. Screen time and unhealthy diet were the most likely to occur together, followed by screen time and low physical activity. By the late teens, 40% had three or more unhealthy behaviors.

Although cigarette smoking was relatively uncommon among teens, almost all who did smoke also had other unhealthy behavior patterns. The data weren't available to examine whether youth are combing vaping with other behaviors, but this will be an important area for future studies to investigate.

During which ages and stages can we intervene for maximum health impact?

Our findings have several implications for chronic disease prevention efforts focused on youth and offer insights on when interventions could have the largest impact.

First, clinical interventions and public health programs may benefit from focusing on screen time and diet in combination, since these were the most common unhealthy patterns across all age groups. Research has specifically identified screen time as an obesity risk factor, more so than other types of sedentary activities, because youth tend to consume more calories through unhealthy foods and beverages while spending time viewing screens.

Second, with low levels of physical activity being most common among 12-15 year olds, the transition from elementary to middle school is an important time period on which to focus. A recent study found that parent encouragement of physical activity, sports and spending time outdoors, and having community resources like social spaces and recreation facilities helped to prevent a decrease in children's physical activity as they transitioned to middle school. Multi-level interventions that involve parents and link families to community resources are promising approaches to target this critical time period.

Third, our findings indicate fast food consumption and smoking are most important to focus on in older teens who may have more independence and disposable income that enable them to eat out frequently and obtain cigarettes. Helping teens quit smoking is extremely important to reduce their risk of future health problems, but most teen smokers also had at least one other unhealthy behavior pattern. Our results suggest that more comprehensive lifestyle interventions may be needed to support teen smokers to transition to healthy adulthood.

While the results of our study indicate that many children and teens have unhealthy behavior patterns, it's important to note that these behaviors are modifiable. We can help youth boost their heart health and reduce future risk by encouraging individual and family-level behavior changes, like spending more time being active outdoors and learning to cook healthier meals, and through community partnerships to create healthy environments in which children can thrive. With a greater understanding of the scope of unhealthy behaviors in youth and age-related patterns, we can help clinicians and researchers develop programs that promote healthy behavior changes at key ages and transition periods to help kids and teens grow into healthy, productive adults.

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From Screen Time to Smoking: Preventing Unhealthy Youth Behaviors

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Unhealthy behaviors like poor diet, physical inactivity, and smoking put children at risk for developing heart disease, diabetes and cancer later in life. In fact, nearly two-thirds of all heart disease deaths worldwide can be attributed to unhealthy behaviors. While these diseases are typically diagnosed in adulthood, the unhealthy behaviors that lead to them often begin in childhood and adolescence.

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How does exercise help improve my self esteem? (Print Source)

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How does exercise help improve my self esteem? (Print Source)

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The magazine, "The Science of Exercise" published by TIME Magazines, states in hear the benefits to your self esteem when you exercise. Being able to say that it can make you feel better and more confident knowing you are being healthy and being fit, and looking better. For example, this following quote states how it can keep you young, "But in recent years, researchers took it a step further, discovering that not only does exercise keep you from dying premature--it also may help you keep young." Being young is what keeps everyone positive about their body as it is known youth is beauty.

1. Pasts CRAAP because TIME Magazine already certified it.

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How does vaping affect athletes? (Video Source)

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How does vaping affect athletes? (Video Source)

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1. This video is able to state directly on how vaping in sports can affect more than simply just your lungs, going as far as to be impactful on your bones. Going on in the video to directly explain the anatomy on how vaping can affect these bones. Stating how when you smoke, it decreases blood flow to the disk spaces and to the vertebrae, which can lead to the weakening of the bones there. This further leads to osteoporosis and osteopenia for your possible future.

2. Currency: This video was posted September 15th, 2022. Which is a good date as nothing has advanced too much.

3. Relevance: This directly answers my question about vaping in athletes, as the thumbnail to the video is vaping and sports.

4. Authority: He is a doctor, and also posts frequently about how to quit bad habits, also having a business towards helping people quit, having an email link to get started being, docfrankhere@addictionmindset.com, which is a legitimate good thing.

5. Accuracy: His information and evidence seem very legit, as for when you search up osteoporosis and osteopenia and their links to vaping, online information amongst various sources also support this topic.

6. Purpose: His purpose for posting the video is very clear, being to give information on the bad effects to vaping and what it'll do to your body, also to answer a comment asking that very same question I am asking.

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Why is exercise important to teens addicted to bad habits? (Destiny Media Center Source)

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Why is exercise important to teens addicted to bad habits? (Destiny Media Center Source)

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This article is able to discuss and go over how exercise can help improve learning. As well as help with mental health. It is stated directly from the text in the article, "Written by Dr. John J. Ratey, an associate clinical professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, the book explores the connection between exercise and the brain, providing strong evidence that aerobic exercise physically remodels the brain for peak performance on all fronts." This, being a quote stating when the physical body is performing in athletic healthy ways, it directly correlates to the brain functions, making the brain perform at healthy levels.

On top of this it can also help mental health as previously stated. Sometimes bad habits van be derived from bad mental health origins. This article supports that exercise can help medicate these mental problems, which therefore can also lead to helping solve bad habits. For example, one major thing exercise can help medicate towards is depression. As for the text directly states, "Studies suggest that endorphins produced in the brain during exercise contribute to a general feeling of well-being. Exercise also boosts dopamine, which improves mood and jump-starts the attention span."

Overall, this article strongly supports, exercise can help solve problems such as cognitive abilities and mental problems, which can lead to improvement in straying away from bad habits and adapting good habits.

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Nancy Barile, Award-Winning Teacher, M.A.Ed.

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Exercise and the Brain: How Fitness Impacts Learning

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What happens when you combine exercise and the brain? Learn about the science that shows how fitness can improve students’ ability to learn.

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How Does Exercise Help Brain Health and Improve my Mentality? (Internet Source)

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How Does Exercise Help Brain Health and Improve my Mentality? (Internet Source)

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1. What I had learnt from this article provided by the CDC is for the three different age generations it can vary the brain health improvement. For the Youth it can allow brain maturation and development and academic achievement. For Older adults it can help with dementia and cognitive impairment. Also across the lifespan, help with cognition, anxiety and depression, quality of life, and sleep. This will also help improve your mentality.

2. Current: August 1st, 2023

3. Relevance: The information is exactly what I needed.

4. Authority: The CDC government

5. Accuracy: All provided links work

6. Purpose: The purpose is to give knowledge and straight facts about exercise benefits in both youth and adult.

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What does drinking (alcohol) do to athletes? (Internet Source)

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What does drinking (alcohol) do to athletes? (Internet Source)

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This article states various things that drinking alcohol can do to the athletic performance of an athlete. This article states firstly that alcohol can impair muscle growth, especially in the long term, as it'll decrease the ability to efficiently grow your muscle. It similarly, prevents muscle recovery as alcohol relates to bad sleeping patterns, whereas sleep is vital for muscle recovery. It also on top of all this, depletes energy, slows reaction time, and especially impairs performance. And overall for the body, it even leads to worse, inhibiting nutrient absorption.

1. The Currency: It has good currency, as for it was last updated 4/21/23.

2. The Relevancy: This was made perfectly in alignment for my information. As for it answers directly and only about athletes and their performance.

3. The Authority: This was made by Binghamton University, a State University of New York. So it is a good trust worthy source.

4. The Accuracy: This is very accurate information as it aligns with proper research, and has references behind it to backup the information to where it has come from.

5. The Purpose: The purpose of this is perfectly understandable, even directly stated in a tab in the website. Stating the purpose being to state what the negatives of drinking are, and how to be safe, smart, and responsible.

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How does exercise help brain health and improve my mentality?

How does exercise help improve my self esteem?

Why does exercise benefit your social life?

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What are some causes of bad teenager habits?

How are good teen habits started?

How does teen bad habits effect our school community?

Why is exercise important to teens addicted to bad habits?

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Is exercising and playing sports effective to making good habits?

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Maintaining good healthy is surrounded by your exercise and dieting. A good place to start is just figuring out your diet. This is surrounded by the first big thing, caloric intake, after finding so then understanding required macros.
After that then find exercises that work for you. Either it be entirely cardio, or bodyweight, or weight lifting.
Simply finding consistency and balance in it will help stride towards that.

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Tips To Start Towards a Healthy Lifestyle 

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A healthy diet is essential for good health and nutrition. It protects you against many chronic noncommunicable diseases, such as heart disease, diabetes and cancer. Eating a variety of foods and consuming less salt, sugars and saturated and industrially-produced trans-fats, are essential for healthy diet. A healthy diet comprises a combination of different foods.

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This helps talk about the stuff that is bad about not being physically active.

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Physical activity can improve health now and in the future. People of all ages, races and ethnicities, shapes, sizes, and abilities can benefit from more physical activity. Everyone needs both aerobic and muscle-strengthening physical activity, according to the Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans, 2nd edition. Even short periods of physical activity can improve health.

Physical activity:

Helps prevent unhealthy weight gain.

Reduces the risk of many chronic diseases, such as heart disease, cancer, and type 2 diabetes.

Helps reduce feelings of anxiety and improves sleep quality.

Improves cognitive ability and reduces risk of dementia.

Improves bone and musculoskeletal health.

Learn more about the Health Benefits of Physical Activity for Adults and the Health Benefits of Physical Activity for Children.

Not everyone has the same opportunity to be physically active. Many people live in neighborhoods with poor sidewalk and street infrastructure, few safe spaces for physical activity, and few destinations (including transit stops) within walking or biking distance from their home. Creating activity-friendly communities can provide safe and convenient places for people to be active. It can also support local economies by increasing retail activity and employment.

When communities are developed or redesigned to promote physical activity, community members should be involved in the planning and decision-making process. It is especially important to include people who have been left out in the past, such as members of racial and ethnic minority groups, older adults, and people with disabilities.

CDC aims to help 27 million Americans become more physically active by 2027 through Active People, Healthy Nation℠, a comprehensive initiative to promote physical activity based on strategies recommended by the Guide to Community Preventive Services.

ABOUT 1 IN 2
ADULTS

don't get enough
aerobic physical activity.

77% OF
HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS

don't get enough
aerobic physical activity.

$117
BILLION

in annual health care costs are related to low physical activity.

Heart Disease

Not getting enough physical activity can lead to heart disease-even for people who have no other risk factors. It can also increase the likelihood of developing other heart disease risk factors, including obesity, high blood pressure, high blood cholesterol, and type 2 diabetes.

Type 2 Diabetes

Not getting enough physical activity can raise a person's risk of developing type 2 diabetes. Physical activity helps control blood sugar (glucose), weight, and blood pressure and helps raise "good" cholesterol and lower "bad" cholesterol. Adequate physical activity-at least 150 minutes of moderate activity a week-can also help reduce the risk of heart disease and nerve damage, which are often problems for people with diabetes.

Cancer

Getting the recommended amount of physical activity can lower the risk of many cancers, including cancers of the breast, colon, and uterus. Regular physical activity is one of the most important things people can do to improve their health. Moving more and sitting less have tremendous benefits for everyone, regardless of age, sex, race, ethnicity, or current fitness level.

Physical activity is one of the best things people can do for their health. The Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans, 2nd Edition presents new findings on the benefits of regular physical activity, which include:

Improved sleep.

Increased ability to perform everyday activities.

Improved cognitive ability and a reduced risk of dementia.

Improved bone and musculoskeletal health.

Emerging research also suggests that physical activity may help our immune systems protect our bodies from infection and disease.

CDC's Work to Increase Physical Activity

CDC's Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity uses data from national and state surveys to track levels of physical activity among adolescents and adults. Data are used to assess trends in physical activity, understand differences in populations, and help identify priority action areas.

CDC also works with partners to measure community supports for physical activity. These supports include policies and design approaches that enable safe and convenient walking, biking, wheelchair rolling, and public transportation options for people of all ages, abilities, and physical activity levels. For example, CDC measures how many communities have Complete Streets policies that are designed to improve the safety of streets for all modes of transportation. CDC also measures how many people have shops, stores, or markets near their homes and the land use policies that help make these everyday destinations more convenient.

Many people want to get regular physical activity but live in communities that lack safe, convenient places to be active. CDC funds states, communities, and national organizations to create activity-friendly routes to everyday destinations that connect people from where they live to where they need to go.

These efforts include:

Making active transportation more feasible and attractive through land use and zoning policies that allow schools, workplaces, shops, and parks to be located closer to people's homes.

Supporting Safe Routes programs that help students walk, bike, or wheelchair roll to school and older adults reach their destination without driving a car.

Implementing Complete Streets policies to make streets safe for people of all ages and abilities to walk, bike, wheelchair roll, or take public transit.

Supporting transportation planning that connects active transportation and public transit planning.

Schools are in a unique position to help students get their recommended 60 minutes or more of daily physical activity. CDC Healthy Schools works with states, school systems, communities, and national partners to promote strong physical education and physical activity programs as part of the Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child (WSCC) model.

CDC funds state departments of education and provides specialized tools, recommendations, and resources to help them work with local school districts and schools. The impact and reach of the school health programs developed are shared in success stories and videos.

CDC also publishes guidance for schools and parents to develop a Comprehensive School Physical Activity Program including recess, physical education, classroom physical activity, and staff involvement, as well as ways to increase physical activity before, during, and after school.

CDC's Workplace Health Promotion Program works with employers and other partners to encourage physical activity in the workplace as part of CDC's Workplace Health Model. CDC focuses its efforts on small and midsize employers because 99% of US employers have fewer than 500 employees. Many employers this size lack the expertise and resources to develop effective public health programs.

CDC also encourages employers to help make physical activity an easier choice for their workers. For example, they can provide on-site walking paths, discounts for local gyms, or subsidies for active commuting options. They can also support efforts to create more safe and accessible options for physical activity in the surrounding community.

In the United States, 96 million adults-more than 1 in 3-have prediabetes, and more than 8 in 10 of them don't know they have it. The leading preventable risk factors for prediabetes and type 2 diabetes are being overweight and not getting enough physical activity. CDC's National Diabetes Prevention Program (National DPP) is a partnership of public and private organizations working to build a nationwide delivery system for a lifestyle change program proven to prevent or delay type 2 diabetes in adults with prediabetes.

Participants in the National DPP lifestyle change program learn to make healthy food choices, be more physically active, and cope with stress. These changes can cut their risk of developing type 2 diabetes by as much as 58% (71% for those over 60).

People with arthritis who take part in "joint-friendly" physical activity can reduce their arthritis pain and improve their function, mood, and quality of life. Examples of joint-friendly activities include walking, biking, and swimming. Being physically active can also delay arthritis disability.

Funding from CDC's Arthritis Program allows partners to offer the following physical activity programs:

Active Living Everyday focuses on helping people who are sedentary become and stay physically active. About 20 people come together for 1-hour weekly sessions for 12 to 20 weeks of education and discussion to learn how to become more physically active.

EnhanceFitness works to increase strength, boost activity levels, and elevate mood. Certified instructors focus on stretching, flexibility, balance, low-impact aerobics, and strength training exercises.

Fit & Strong! focuses on sedentary older adults with lower-extremity joint pain and stiffness. It offers stretching, balance, aerobic, and endurance exercises.

Walk with Ease is a community-based walking program that meets three times a week for 6 weeks. Trained group exercise leaders begin each session with a pre-walk discussion covering a topic related to exercise and arthritis, followed by a 10- to 40-minute walk that includes a warm-up and cool-down period.

Nearly 1 in 2 adults in the United States has high blood pressure, which raises a person's risk of heart attack and stroke. Physical inactivity is one of the leading preventable risk factors for high blood pressure.

Million Hearts® 2022 is a national initiative to prevent 1 million heart attacks and strokes within 5 years. It focuses on a small set of priorities and targets that can improve cardiovascular health for all.

One of these targets is to reduce physical inactivity by using proven strategies where people live, learn, work, and play. These strategies include providing behavioral counseling for adults with cardiovascular risk factors and creating safe community spaces that encourage activity.

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CDC works to reduce the four main risk factors for preventable chronic diseases: tobacco use, poor nutrition, lack of physical activity, and excessive alcohol use.

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This supports lots of benefits to being physically active.

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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

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Regular physical activity is one of the most important things you can do for your health. Being physically active can improve your brain health, help manage weight, reduce the risk of disease, strengthen bones and muscles, and improve your ability to do everyday activities.

Adults who sit less and do any amount of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity gain some health benefits. Only a few lifestyle choices have as large an impact on your health as physical activity.

Everyone can experience the health benefits of physical activity - age, abilities, ethnicity, shape, or size do not matter.

Immediate Benefits

Some benefits of physical activity on brain health [PDF-14.4MB] happen right after a session of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity. Benefits include improved thinking or cognition for children 6 to 13 years of age and reduced short-term feelings of anxiety for adults. Regular physical activity can help keep your thinking, learning, and judgment skills sharp as you age. It can also reduce your risk of depression and anxiety and help you sleep better.

Both eating patterns and physical activity routines play a critical role in weight management. You gain weight when you consume more calories through eating and drinking than the amount of calories you burn, including those burned during physical activity.

To maintain your weight: Work your way up to 150 minutes a week of moderate physical activity, which could include dancing or yard work. You could achieve the goal of 150 minutes a week with 30 minutes a day, 5 days a week.

People vary greatly in how much physical activity they need for weight management. You may need to be more active than others to reach or maintain a healthy weight.

To lose weight and keep it off: You will need a high amount of physical activity unless you also adjust your eating patterns and reduce the amount of calories you're eating and drinking. Getting to and staying at a healthy weight requires both regular physical activity and healthy eating.

See more information about:

Haven't Been Active in a While?

See these tips on getting started.

Reduce Your Health Risk

The good news [PDF-14.5MB] is that moderate physical activity, such as brisk walking, is generally safe for most people.

Cardiovascular Disease

Heart disease and stroke are two leading causes of death in the United States. Getting at least 150 minutes a week of moderate physical activity can put you at a lower risk for these diseases. You can reduce your risk even further with more physical activity. Regular physical activity can also lower your blood pressure and improve your cholesterol levels.

Type 2 Diabetes and Metabolic Syndrome

Regular physical activity can reduce your risk of developing type 2 diabetes and metabolic syndrome. Metabolic syndrome is some combination of too much fat around the waist, high blood pressure, low high-density lipoproteins (HDL) cholesterol, high triglycerides, or high blood sugar. People start to see benefits at levels from physical activity even without meeting the recommendations for 150 minutes a week of moderate physical activity. Additional amounts of physical activity seem to lower risk even more.

Infectious Diseases

Physical activity may help reduce the risk of serious outcomes from infectious diseases, including COVID-19, the flu, and pneumonia. For example:

People who do little or no physical activity are more likely to get very sick from COVID-19 than those who are physically active. A CDC systematic review [PDF-931KB] found that physical activity is associated with a decrease in COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths, while inactivity increases that risk.

People who are more active may be less likely to die from flu or pneumonia. A CDC study found that adults who meet the aerobic and muscle-strengthening physical activity guidelines are about half as likely to die from flu and pneumonia as adults who meet neither guideline.

Some Cancers

Being physically active lowers your risk for developing several common cancers. Adults who participate in greater amounts of physical activity have reduced risks of developing cancers of the:

Bladder

Breast

Colon (proximal and distal)

Endometrium

Esophagus (adenocarcinoma)

Kidney

Lung

Stomach (cardia and non-cardia adenocarcinoma)

If you are a cancer survivor, getting regular physical activity not only helps give you a better quality of life, but also improves your physical fitness.

Strengthen Your Bones and Muscles

As you age, it's important to protect your bones, joints, and muscles - they support your body and help you move. Keeping bones, joints, and muscles healthy can help ensure that you're able to do your daily activities and be physically active.

Muscle-strengthening activities like lifting weights can help you increase or maintain your muscle mass and strength. This is important for older adults who experience reduced muscle mass and muscle strength with aging. Slowly increasing the amount of weight and number of repetitions you do as part of muscle strengthening activities will give you even more benefits, no matter your age.

Improve Your Ability to do Daily Activities and Prevent Falls

Everyday activities include climbing stairs, grocery shopping, or playing with your grandchildren. Being unable to do everyday activities is called a functional limitation. Physically active middle-aged or older adults have a lower risk of functional limitations than people who are inactive.

For older adults, doing a variety of physical activity improves physical function and decreases the risk of falls or injury from a fall. Include physical activities such as aerobic, muscle strengthening, and balance training. Multicomponent physical activity can be done at home or in a community setting as part of a structured program.

Hip fracture is a serious health condition that can result from a fall. Breaking a hip have life-changing negative effects, especially if you're an older adult. Physically active people have a lower risk of hip fracture than inactive people.

Increase Your Chances of Living Longer

See physical activity recommendations for different groups, including:

An estimated 110,000 deaths per year could be prevented if US adults ages 40 and older increased their moderate-to-vigorous physical activity by a small amount. Even 10 minutes more a day would make a difference.

Taking more steps a day also helps lower the risk of premature death from all causes. For adults younger than 60, the risk of premature death leveled off at about 8,000 to 10,000 steps per day. For adults 60 and older, the risk of premature death leveled off at about 6,000 to 8,000 steps per day.

Manage Chronic Health Conditions & Disabilities

Regular physical activity can help people manage existing chronic conditions and disabilities. For example, regular physical activity can:

Connect with Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity

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