Mental Health Exercise Analysis

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Like the treatment for mental health exercise can be a great way to prevent diseases in humans. A lot of exercises can offer more benefits than just creating a fit body. Although that is the factor of many people's drive to workout some have a different outlook, to save them from disease later on in life. As it states in MedicineNet Daily “physical activity can help prevent heart disease and stroke by strengthening your heart muscle, lowering your blood pressure, raising your high-density lipoprotein (HDL) levels (good cholesterol) and lowering low-density lipoprotein (LDL) levels (bad cholesterol), improving blood flow, and increasing your heart's working capacity. Optimizing each of these factors can provide additional benefits of decreasing the risk for Peripheral Vascular Disease”(Harbolic, MedicineNet). See this is a prime example of how regular physical activity can help in the long run. Offering the participant a reduced risk in diseases and health conditions affecting humans in the later years of life. Heart disease and lower blood pressure is not the only benefits that come of activity it can also help with or prevent non insulin dependent diabetes. By reducing body fat it lowers your chances of having this form of diabetes (Harbolic, MedicineNet). Diabetes is a common problem among america. Part of that problem is growing …show more content…

One major problem in societies medical field is cancer. With no true cure for cancer it is one of the most daunting medical conditions anyone can have. “Being physically active lowers your risk for two types of cancer: colon and breast”(Crandall, Physical activity.) Well basically exercise can not only help small diseases brought on by old age and other unhealthy habits but it can also reduce the risk of a terrible illness which is cancer. Since there is no cure and no sure way of knowing who is going to get it everyone should take simple effective precautions to help reduce

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