Physical Activity - Note Cards by Ethan DeHaven

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Mahindru, A., Patil, P., & Agrawal, V. (2023). Role of Physical Activity on Mental Health and Well-Being: A Review. Cureus, 15(1), e33475. https://doi.org/10.7759/cureus.33475

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Dahlgren, A., Sjöblom, L., Eke, H., Bonn, S. E., & Trolle Lagerros, Y. (2021). Screen time and physical activity in children and adolescents aged 10-15 years. PloS one, 16(7), e0254255. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0254255

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(Depression and anxiety: Exercise eases symptoms)

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Why Is Physical Activity So Important for Health and Well-Being?

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Corazza, O., Simonato, P., Demetrovics, Z., Mooney, R., van de Ven, K., Roman-Urrestarazu, A., Rácmolnár, L., De Luca, I., Cinosi, E., Santacroce, R., Marini, M., Wellsted, D., Sullivan, K., Bersani, G., & Martinotti, G. (2019). The emergence of Exercise Addiction, Body Dysmorphic Disorder, and other image-related psychopathological correlates in fitness settings: A cross sectional study. PloS one, 14(4), e0213060. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0213060

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An, H. Y., Chen, W., Wang, C. W., Yang, H. F., Huang, W. T., & Fan, S. Y. (2020). The Relationships between Physical Activity and Life Satisfaction and Happiness among Young, Middle-Aged, and Older Adults. International journal of environmental research and public health, 17(13), 4817. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17134817

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ethdehaven — 2025-10-03 15:13:43 UTC

This study shows that physical activity does have a relationtion to the life satisfaction a person recieves. The study conveyed a test, having people from all ages demographics, describe how different levels of physical activity affected the amount of satisfaction from life. The final results displayed that people with more high-physical activity, displayed more life satisfaction (Chen).

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ethdehaven — 2025-10-03 15:22:10 UTC

There are many studies that have shown physcial activity shows relations to physical benefits. One test contained 24 different countries, with people from the age demographic of 18-30, showing that they have higher life satisfaction when physical activity is a part of there day (Chen).

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ethdehaven — 2025-10-03 15:40:18 UTC

There are three main types of physical activity vigorous, moderate, and low intensity. Vigorous intensity includes activities such as, olympic weight lifting, doing physical labor, and pushing yourself to major limits. Moderate intesity includes activities such as, biking, going for a run, and doing body weight exercises. Low intensity includes activities such as walking, play catch with a baseball, and shooting hoops (Chen).

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ethdehaven — 2025-10-06 14:36:45 UTC

"Physically inactive individuals have been reported to have higher rates of morbidity and healthcare expenditures" (Mahindru).

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ethdehaven — 2025-10-06 14:46:03 UTC

Studies have shown that exercise and physical activity have been recommended to help tackle certain mental challenges. According to many empirical investigations, a positive relashionship has been shown between certain mental health traits. As well as, nonclinical investigations, showing that physical activity and exercise have a positive relashionship with mental diseases such as, self-concept and body image (Mahindru).

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ethdehaven — 2025-10-06 14:51:34 UTC

There are many benefits to having some sort in physical activity such as, improving sleep, helping mood and quality of life, and helping to stop craving and other dietary problems (Mahindru).

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ethdehaven — 2025-10-06 14:56:01 UTC

One exersice that has shown relashion to mental health and yoga. Although yoga comes from long Hinduas traditions, it has shown that having some sort of yoga or meditation in a persons weekly schedule can positively affect their mental health. People who suffer from anxiety and depression may positively impact from yoga. Along with the meditation from yoga strengthining your central nervous system and attention time-span (Mahindru).

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ethdehaven — 2025-10-06 15:06:50 UTC

Over many studies, physical activity has been displayed as a possible way to stop alcoholism and other substance abuse problems. Physical activity has been seen as a way to substitute said substance, in this case alcohol, for the usage of the substance. Trading places with the substance and stopping the cravings of dopamian or feeling that a person receives from using a substance. The downside of trading in phsycal activity for a substance is that a person must go all in. Due to lack of motivation, most substance abusers should take physical activity-based therapies to help with focusing on motivation (Mahindru).

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ethdehaven — 2025-10-06 15:11:57 UTC

One studying focusing on the relashionssip between physical activity and alcoholism showed positive relashionships between the two. The test displayed seventeen people who had an addiction to alcohol. Said people where then put into a 12 minute physical activity. After the activity tests where ran showing that 40% of all participants experienced fewer cravings (Mahindru).

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ethdehaven — 2025-10-06 15:21:05 UTC

Depression is one of the worlds leading causes of disability, as well as a major contributor to the global burden of disease, as per the World Health Organization. However only 10%-25%, of people who have depression, actually go to visit a trained proffesional. This may be due to lack of funds, shortening amount of actual trained professionals, and/or the stereotypes associated with depression (Mahindru).

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ethdehaven — 2025-10-06 15:24:51 UTC

People who have less severe forms of mental illness, such as depression and anxiety, physical activity may be a critical part of their treatment. Physical activity may improve mental illness symptoms as much as traditional antidepressants, if not more (Mahindru).

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ethdehaven — 2025-10-06 15:33:54 UTC

Physcial activity has been shown to be more effective than certain treatments, such as control groups. Phsycial activity has shown to be affecting in all age demographics, young and old. Certain forms of physical activity that focus on self-awarness, breathing exercises, and relaxation techniques, such as yoga, have a positive affect on a persons well-being (Mahindru).

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ethdehaven — 2025-10-06 15:44:56 UTC

Physical activity has many benefits on your body, as well as your brain health. Benefits include increased focus or thinking on children ages six to thirteen, as well as reduced short-term feelings for adults and people of an soldier age demographic. Keeping you thinking and learning at any age, and adding other benefits (Benefits of Physical Activity).

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ethdehaven — 2025-10-07 14:36:37 UTC

Many health risks that the average person in counters in life can be solved with 150 of physical activity, give or take demographics such as age, disease type, and the overall health of a person. Cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes are two major diseases physical activity can prevent. Physical activity can help eliminated high blood pressure and cholesterol, along with helping to eliminate excess fat the body carries. Other diseases such as, the common cold, the flu, and even cancer, can also be prevented by 150 minuetes of physical activty each week (Benefits of Physical Activity).

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ethdehaven — 2025-10-07 14:42:06 UTC

Along with diseases, physical activity can help in a persons everyday life. With physical activity built into a person day, it help them grow muscle and create healthy bone structure. This allows people of all ages to lower there risk of falling doing everyday activities like walking up stairs and carrying groceries. Avoiding serious injuries like broken bones, sprain ligaments, and even brain injuries like concussions (Benefits of Physical Activity).

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ethdehaven — 2025-10-07 14:47:57 UTC

Over the period one year, there are roughly 110,000 premature deaths, ages 40 and up, that take place, which could be solved by some sort of physical activity. Studies how shown that even 10 minutes a day of moderate-to-vigerous activity could make a complete difference. Along with physical activty, reaching your daily step goal can also make a big factor in premature death. For people under 60, they should reach around 8,000-10,000 steps a day, and for people over 60, should reach around 6,000 to 8,000 steps a day (Benefits of Physical Activity).

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ethdehaven — 2025-10-07 15:22:59 UTC

There are many different ways that physical activty can help ease the brain mentally, both scientificly and emotionally. Scientificly, working out releases a chemical in the brain called endorphins. Endorphins is the chemical in the brain that affects your well-being. This means that when you do allow yourself to do physical activity, it realses the feel good chemical to your brain. Mentally, physical activty helps a person in many different ways. Helping with a persons confidence and how they look at themselves, using physical activity as a coping mechanism instead of substance abuse, and also social interaction, meeting new people and having new experiences. These are all ways that physical activity can affect you mentally (Depression and anxiety: Exercise eases symptoms).

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ethdehaven — 2025-10-07 15:28:53 UTC

Physcial activity and exercise are not the same thing. Exercise is something like weight lifting, running, or playing basketball. Meanwhile, physical activity is something that gets the body moving. Whether its gardening in the back yard, washing your car, or taking your dog for a walk. Along with this physical activity and/or exercise is not something a person needs to bunch all together. Try and space it out throughout your day. Things like, parking in the back of the parking lot, walking during your lunch break, and shooting hoops when you get home, are all things that helo you spread out your physical fitness through the day (Depression and anxiety: Exercise eases symptoms).

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ethdehaven — 2025-10-07 15:31:57 UTC

Some people don't have to do as much physical activity as others. For example, young teenagers and people in the young stages of their life, should be active more than adults who work a day job. The recommended amount of time spend doing physical activity is only 150 minutes, which is only about 22 minutes a day. Regular excersie size habbits, such as small as 22 minuetes a day, can make a big impact on your life (Depression and anxiety: Exercise eases symptoms).

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ethdehaven — 2025-10-07 22:47:00 UTC

When a person puts physcial activity into their weekly life, things such as, satisfaction of life, anger relief, and recuduction of anxiety are all benefits of this activity. Physical activity is known as the happy pill, but with no side effects (Why Is Physical Activity So Important for Health and Well-Being?).

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ethdehaven — 2025-10-07 23:36:10 UTC

Just like a car does, the body starts to break down, loosing stamina, strength, and ability to function over time due to not being used. A persons body starts to break itself down, just like an engine does. Including physical activity into a person's weekly activity can help build the strength needed to keep the body healthy and strong (Why Is Physical Activity So Important for Health and Well-Being?).

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ethdehaven — 2025-10-07 23:49:02 UTC

Adding 10 plus years to a persons life is only something out of a movie, but physical activity is not out of a movie. Integrating physical activity into a weekly schedule can increase a persons life expectancy to almost 10 years. Helping prevent chromic illness and diseases associated with aging (Why Is Physical Activity So Important for Health and Well-Being?).

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ethdehaven — 2025-10-08 00:23:17 UTC

In countries such as America body image and physical appearance has become a key role in a persons character and social status (Corazza).

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ethdehaven — 2025-10-08 00:34:49 UTC

Over time the idea of a person treating their body like a machine has been born into American society. Believing that a person can not only modify your body, but also make additions and major changes to. This leads to people creating bad habits throughout their day (Corazza).

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ethdehaven — 2025-10-08 00:47:28 UTC

Over time a person who chases the ideal body type tend to indulge in fractic and life threatening habits in their daily routine. These habits have been created through many things surrounding the lives of a person. One major surrounding being social media. The stereotypes created around fitness gurus online, a long with dietary specialists, have helped develope the ideal body type, which in the end, created bad habits (Corazza).

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ethdehaven — 2025-10-08 00:56:45 UTC

Mental illness related to working out hae shot through the roof of our society. Two major illness include exersice addiction and body disphormia. Exersice addiction, or EA, involve a person who works out too much. Putting themselve in danger of physical injury, such as overuse of muscles (Corazza).

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ethdehaven — 2025-10-08 01:20:01 UTC

As well as bad physical habits, certain substance habits can be created through working out. One of these habbits may be the excess use of supplements that can enhance the building of muscle, but also hurt the building of muscle and the person themselves. Some of these supplements being protein powder, which helps get more protein into the muscle. Other supplements include creatine monohydrate and testntatrone replacement, which allow muscle to be pumped of water and other muscle building habbits. This allows muscle to be grown healthy if used right, but if not used right could result in major health problems (Corazza).

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ethdehaven — 2025-10-09 02:28:26 UTC

Body dysphormia have been present in all populations and age demographics. The demogrphuc with the highest rate, is found in females (Corazza).

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ethdehaven — 2025-10-09 02:37:48 UTC

Over time the ideal of a perfect body in the gym has helped create the ideas of body disperfection. Going to the gym has created social standards that are unrealistic to achieve, causing people who do attend the gym to not be satisfied with their time, effort, and body (Corazza).

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ethdehaven — 2025-10-09 02:44:34 UTC

Other mental illness included with physical fitness, may be anarexia. Anarexia is where a people either does not eat, starving themselves, or do eat, but end up making their body get rid of the food before digestion. Causing their body not to get the nutrients it needs (Corazza).

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ethdehaven — 2025-10-09 02:49:42 UTC

"Fitness goals are strongly influenced by the perception of one’s reflection in the mirror, or the number of “likes” for one’s picture on social networking (Corazza)."

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ethdehaven — 2025-10-09 03:12:48 UTC

When driving down the highway, you receive warning signs to stop, slow down, and even take some rest for yourself. Our bodies do the same thing. Displaying warning signs in major soreness, slow recovery, and even hurting of muscles and joints. These injuries happen due to rapid increase to training. Being able to be prevented through a rest day, pulling back on training, or even more significant measures (What are some signs of overtraining?).

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ethdehaven — 2025-10-09 03:24:02 UTC

Their are two major ways people get hurt and injured during physical activity. The first one being just overuse period. With a rapid increase in training a persons body will have a hard time adapting to this lifestyle, causing injuries along the way. The other way a person hurts themself doing physical activity, is showing improper training. Improper training causes stress to be put on muscles that shouldn't be (What are some signs of over training?).

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ethdehaven — 2025-10-09 14:38:16 UTC

Signs for overtraining are vary easy to oversee. Things such as long-term soreness could be passed as just, pushing your body the good way. Along with that everyday pain in joints in muscles. This could be passed as just soreness, but in the end its the body screening to take a break (What are some signs of overtraining?).

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ethdehaven — 2025-10-09 14:42:42 UTC

Overtraining can be prevented very easily, but with the business of a person's life, they tend to ignore it. Small things like dieting good healthy moods are one significant way to help your body, but with fast food and processed food people tend to choose that over good healthy food. Other things include stretching very thoroughly before and after workout, aswell as just listening to your body (What are some signs of overtraining?).

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ethdehaven — 2025-10-09 14:45:32 UTC

People usually think of overtraining is a major block in the road, but in reality it isn't. Making sure that you pace yourself, intake the right foods, and listen to the body, can all make it just a small speed bump. Making it easy to fix the problem and keep on your fitness journey (What are some signs of overtraining?)

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ethdehaven — 2025-10-09 14:52:39 UTC

"New data show that nearly one third (31%) of adults worldwide, approximately 1.8 billion people, did not meet the recommended levels of physical activity in 2022 (Nearly 1.8 billion)."

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ethdehaven — 2025-10-09 14:55:27 UTC

Physcial activity rates have hit a decline over the past 15 yrs. From 2010 to 2022 the inactive physical activity rate has shot down by 5%, but that is not the real issue. Rates are supposed to plummit by the year 2030 by almost 35% percent (Nearly 1.8 billions adults).

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ethdehaven — 2025-10-09 14:58:11 UTC

The rate of physical avitivy isn't plummeting down equally. The demographic of women, and older adults, have seen the most change. With new changes in societal norms, people have turned to knew ways of getting fit. This causes to leave physical activity at the door, and instead resulting to more unhealthy and unethical ways of being and looking fit (Nearly 1.8 billion).

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ethdehaven — 2025-10-09 14:59:29 UTC

“Physical inactivity is a silent threat to global health, contributing significantly to the burden of chronic diseases,” said Dr Rüdiger Krech, Director of Health Promotion at WHO. (Nearly 1.8 billion people).

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ethdehaven — 2025-10-09 15:04:17 UTC

But the physical benefits are just part of the story, Raghuveer said. Exercise also can boost mental health. "Physical activity is important in maintaining a child's psychological health," she said. "There are many non-cardiac benefits." (Screen time).

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ethdehaven — 2025-10-09 15:11:25 UTC

With technology bursting into the scene of our society over the past 15 years, teenagers have disregarded the need for physical activity. Teenagers prefer the quick dopamine hit they receive from swipping on TikTok, or liking and Instagram Real. Than involving themselves in physical activy and receiving a slow dopamine hit. This in the end run, causing only 25% of teenagers today to receive the recommended our of physical activity each day (Most of the nations teens).

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ethdehaven — 2025-10-09 15:15:41 UTC

Schools have started to limit the amount of physical activity throughout the day of a student. With budget cuts and other spending limits put on school districts. They are forced to choose the education of the students, over the physical health and amount of physical activity they are receiving (Most of the nation's teens).

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ethdehaven — 2025-10-09 15:16:51 UTC

A recent study in The Lancet Psychiatry found 12-year-olds who got 60 solid minutes of exercise each day had an average 10% reduction in depression at age 18 (Most of the nation's teens).

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ethdehaven — 2025-10-09 15:20:17 UTC

A recent study in The Lancet Psychiatry found 12-year-olds who got 60 solid minutes of exercise each day had an average 10% reduction in depression at age 18 (Most of the nation's teens).

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ethdehaven — 2025-10-09 15:20:35 UTC

"New data show that nearly one third (31%) of adults worldwide, approximately 1.8 billion people, did not meet the recommended levels of physical activity in 2022 (Nearly 1.8 billion)."

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In countries such as America body image and physical appearance has become a key role in a persons character and social status (Corazza).

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"Fitness goals are strongly influenced by the perception of one’s reflection in the mirror, or the number of “likes” for one’s picture on social networking (Corazza)."

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"Physically inactive individuals have been reported to have higher rates of morbidity and healthcare expenditures" (Mahindru).

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