Improves your cardiovascular health and overall physical health. This is important because people with mental health problems are at greater risk of chronic physical conditions such as heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, and asthma. Physical activity in adults is associated with a lower risk of obesity, cardiovascular disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, cancer, and premature death. There is considerable evidence that cardiovascular diseases have their origins in childhood and adolescence.
Lipid and lipoprotein profiles, blood pressure, and adiposity in young people tend to persist throughout life (follow-up). This is particularly true when we consider the difficulty involved in changing adult lifestyles. Five studies focused, in particular, on mental health and BP. PA promotes different types of positive psychological responses.
Regular exercise has a beneficial impact on depression and anxiety. Reduces stress and improves overall well-being. The first study is based on evidence that poor sleep quality, common in young people, increases the risk of morbidity and mortality. In this area, Zhai et al.
BP could improve sleep by helping people cope with stress, indicating that stress management could be a non-pharmaceutical treatment to improve sleep. Considering the mental health of young people, Usán Supervia et al. Examined the relationships between the constructs of goal orientation, emotional intelligence, and burnout in high school students. The authors highlighted that the psychological profile that emerges from these characteristics could be important for academic performance and school participation.
It examined gender, as a socioeconomic determinant of health, testing the validity of the biopsychosocial model of health with a limited perspective of the life cycle in a very large sample of students from Hungarian universities and colleges. Their findings suggested that the determinants of male health included fewer variables focused on physical activity and were less influenced by social relationships, unlike women's health, which was influenced by age and social support. Kim and Ahn demonstrated that participating in exercise for six weeks produced positive changes in the self-esteem and mental health of college students. In a narrative review, Belvedere Murri et al.
The beneficial effects of BP in depressed populations were investigated. A specific public health problem is the premature mortality of depressed people. This is mainly due to increased cardiovascular risk, as depression leads to the development or exacerbation of unhealthy lifestyles. According to their findings, PA can reduce the severity of depression and directly address cardiovascular risk factors.
In the field of public health, the development and dissemination of initiatives that promote exercise-based interventions in depressed populations, focusing on their cost-effectiveness, is recommended. To improve efficiency and reduce irrational procrastination, it would be necessary to increase physical activity and reduce mobile phone addiction. Two studies refer, in particular, to the implications of regular exercise for the prevention and treatment of diseases. Another notable aspect of the study by Ortega et al are the differences in the strength of the association between physical activity and physical fitness when gender is taken into account.
While much of the variability in physical fitness is genetically determined, environmental factors, and in particular physical exercise, also influence physical fitness. The results of an intervention study10 indicate that only high-intensity physical exercise has any effect on CRC in obese adolescents, and that both moderate and high-intensity physical exercise modify adiposity. Despite the doubts of some authors that physical exercise below the recommended levels influences physical fitness, exercise at these levels can nevertheless lead to improvements in self-esteem, academic performance or bone density. To further investigate this aspect, they used accelerometers to measure the frequency and intensity of physical activity and VO2max with a cycle ergometer to measure CRC.
Regular physical activity has been proven to help prevent and control noncommunicable diseases, such as heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and several types of cancer. Physical fitness is the result not only of genetic conditioning, but also of individual and social determinants. Similarly, there is evidence of an inverse relationship between physical fitness and the risk of getting sick and dying. In high-income countries, 26% of men and 35% of women were not getting enough physical activity, compared to 12% of men and 24% of women in low-income countries.
As for multiple sclerosis, it is well known that physical inactivity reduces cardiorespiratory capacity, promotes physical deconditioning, and leads to comorbidities such as obesity, metabolic syndrome and osteoporosis. .
