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The impact of exercise and physical activity in the prevention of chronic diseases and mental health problems
"If you don't make time for exercise, you'll probably have to make time for illness." – Robin Sharma. Lack of exercise is the primary cause of chronic diseases. (W. Booth, Roberts and Laye, 2012). The sedentarism has been responsible for the increasing of obesity, diabetes and heart diseases. Young adults are the section of the population most affected by this health crisis globally, but it also wreaks havoc on all ages groups. To make changes in the health culture and combat cardiovascular diseases, our generation must know the benefits and impact exercise has on disease prevention because lack of exercise significantly increases the risk of cardiovascular conditions, while physical activity decreases the mortality rates of chronic diseases and improves mental health.
Sedentarism is associated with the increasing risk of chronic and cardiovascular diseases. About 35 different pathological and clinical conditions such as obesity, insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes are primarily caused by physical inactivity. (W. Booth et al, 2019). The social normalization of bad habits have caused a surge of diseases affecting society since the very first live stages of the global population. The lack of exercise in children is the main reason of young adults being the most affected by chronical cardiovascular diseases. As if causing more than 30 diseases were not enough, the lack of exercise heightens the mortality of those illnesses.
Physical activity decreases the mortality rates of chronic and cardiovascular diseases. During 2015, in the USA, 633 842 of the registered deaths were caused by heart disease, while cancer ended 595 930 lives. Worldwide, in 2015, 17.7 million deaths were due to cardiovascular diseases, while 8.8 million were due to cancer. (Sturgeon, et al, 2019). We don't think about this numbers enough, we are talking about millions of deaths, all caused by a bad habits lifestyle. The mortality rates would be so different if there was an exercise culture telling the new generations the benefits of exercising from an early age. Physical activity not only combats the cardiovascular caused mortality but is also helpful to improve the mental heatlh.
Exercise improves mental health. In 2021, out of 1.2 millions of adults from the US, who also where from diverse social groups and places, participated in a study about exercise and mental health, the results indicated that people who exercised reported better mental health compared to the physically inactive people. (Smith and Merwin, 2021). Exercise not only reduces the possibilities of a chronic disease and increases your life quality, but it also helps the right development of mental health. Physical activity produces a sense of well-being in us that we should trust due to the neurological process that happens in our heads when we exercise.
To make significant changes in the health culture of our society and combat cardiovascular
diseases. Our generation must know the benefits and impact exercise has on disease prevention and.
The risk of chronic conditions will not be a problem in the future if we learn from the current situation.
Knowing that is very helpful to reduce the mortality rates of diseases related to poor diet, and mental
health disorders. If we take responsibility as a society for this health crisis, we can prevent so many
complications since the very first life stages of our youngest population. This create the hope for a
positive structural change in our health system and our way to socially deal with chronic cardiovascular
diseases. The human body is a perfect machine, it is our duty to keep it working in the right way
References
Booth, F. W., Roberts, C. K., & Laye, M. J. (2012). Lack of exercise is a major cause of chronic diseases. Comprehensive Physiology, 2(2), 1143
Smith, P. J., & Merwin, R. M. (2021). The role of exercise in management of mental health disorders: An integrative review. Annual Review of Medicine, 72(1), 45-62.
Sturgeon, K. M., Deng, L., Bluethmann, S. M., Zhou, S., Trifiletti, D. M., Jiang, C., & Zaorsky, N. G. (2019). A population
based study of cardiovascular disease mortality risk in US cancer patients. European Heart Journal, 40(48),
3889-3897.