Exercise Health And Lifestyle Essay

Unit 7: Exercise Health and Lifestyle

How lifestyle factors affects health and wellbeing
Task 1
P1&M1 (1.1, 1.2)

Physical activity- By having a high physical activity level you would have a stronger heart than can pump blood more blood around the body. There would also be a greater blood supply to your bones as more force would be placed on them making them stronger. The joints would become more freely moveable as the synovial fluid would change from a gel like substance to a more runny fluid to create less friction at the joint. There will also be decreased risk of coronary heart disease, high blood pressure and obesity.

For children aged up to 17years the amount of exercise that should be done a day is 60 or more minutes. For an adult 18-65years should do at least 150mins of moderate intensity of aerobic activity or 75 minutes of vigorous aerobic activity each week.
Keeping physically active is a way of distraction of the outside world and may help with stress, you may also get to meet new friends if you join a club therefore becoming more social it can also bring meaning into peoples life. Sleep also becomes much better.

For example a young child may participate in an after school football club, a teenager up to 30 years may consider taking up physical activity or sports professionally. A middle aged may join a club for eg. Running if they feel they are overweight. The elderly may take place in activity such as bowls or even just everyday walking to the local shops. For each of these examples a person who does not participate in exercise may experience becoming breathless at minimal tasks such as a light jog or walking up or down the stairs, this is because the heart is not able to cope with additional stress as it has no...

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...e lungs it is where the alveoli of the lungs are destroyed this means that the amount of surface area is reduced which is needed for gaseous exchange and coronary heart disease.
Ways people quit smoking are by mental and note form reminders of why they are quitting, rewarding themselves, distraction, using gum or healthy snacks e.g celery and carrots, exercise, drinking cool water and nicotine patches or supplements.
Why is smoking addictive? The chemicals in the subjects brain (noradrenalin and dopamine) becomes altered by nicotine inhaled during smoking, this gives the subject a rush of pleasure/ stress release feeling immediately once inhaled. The subject then becomes reliant on the cigarette to provide them with this feeling as the brain becomes used to the chemical nicotine the subject begins to smoke more to get the same effect as it did in the earlier stages.