Sentences with phrase «physical benefits of each activity»

This is the first lesson with built in learning outcomes that identifies different uses of leisure and asks pupils to compare these to their own use of leisure time and to evaluate the emotional, spiritual and physical benefits of each activity.

Not exact matches

Refining and production are, for the most part, separate activities — they don't benefit much from integration in the physical sense (oil sands upgrading from mines is a bit of an exception, since the waste heat from the upgrader can feed the extraction plant).

Also, like Juvenal, who sang the praises of «a sound mind in a sound body,» my father believed that his work had benefited from physical activity.

While physical activity in youth should be promoted because of its desirable benefits in terms of health and body composition, the emphasis should be on moderation and the focus should be on skill development, fitness, and general health, rather than development of a muscular appearance.

Although current science is not complete, it appears that, as with adults, the total amount of physical activity is more important for achieving health benefits than is any one component (frequency, intensity, or duration) or specific mix of activities (aerobic, muscle - strengthening, bone strengthening).

I am a big believer in the power of fitness, physical activity, and the social benefits of participating in sports and being physically active.

Youth can achieve substantial health benefits by doing moderate - and vigorous - intensity physical activity for periods of time that add up to 60 minutes (1 hour) or more each day.

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Besides the physical benefits of being outdoors, for the purpose of physical activity, other valuable learning opportunities may also arise as your children encounter objects in nature or other subjects that captivate their attention.

It's not supposed to sabotage a healthy diet or negate the benefits of physical activity.

This will allow you to communicate with your newborn while gaining the benefits of physical closeness as you go about your daily activities.

Exercise: 7 benefits of regular physical activity.

In addition to the direct health benefits of exercise, by engaging in physical activities we become more attune with our bodies which obviously carries great advantages during pregnancy and childbirth.

In addition to the scientific support for physical benefits, there are social, emotional and developmental benefits of physical activity including:

Playing sports has a huge amount of benefits for your kids, and it is always best to introduce them to the world of sports and physical activity at an early age.

As for physical activity, the best evidence in favor of its benefits for the brain comes from Australia.

Some memory and cognition researchers privately grumbled that the conclusions were too negative — particularly with respect to the potential benefits of not smoking, treating high blood pressure and engaging in physical activity.

Specifically, researchers examined which aspects of physical activity were associated with happiness, and which populations were likely to benefit from the effects.

«Yoga may not count toward 30 minutes of daily physical activity, but may have other benefits.»

Instead, quite a moderate amount of physical activity was found to be sufficient for memory - protecting benefits, and only the most inactive group of twins stood out with a significantly higher risk for cognitive impairment.

Increasing the volume of physical activity was not, however, associated with increased memory - protecting benefits.

Although the correlation among healthful diet, physical activity, and CVD incidence is strong, existing evidence indicates that the health benefit of behavioral counseling to promote a healthful diet and physical activity among adults without obesity who do not have these specific CVD risk factors is small.

All persons, regardless of their CVD risk status, can gain health benefits from healthy eating behaviors and appropriate physical activity.

He said that lifestyle modifications such as healthy eating, physical activity and behavioral modifications during pregnancy have had limited benefits on improving adverse perinatal outcomes, with the exception of reducing excessive gestational weight gain, on the average of two to five pounds in obese women.

They turned out to be longer than those of other Costa Ricans, with an average difference of about 81 base pairs, equivalent to the benefits of quitting smoking or getting regular physical activity.

Due to the benefits of regular physical activity for people with autism, Savage wanted to explore how to increase their engagement in a regular exercise routine through positive reinforcement, a well - established practice for use with people with autism.

For these two sites, the anticancer benefits of increased physical activity «are now convincing,» she says.

«Our study findings suggest that the majority of young and middle - aged to old adults underestimate the intensity of physical activity that is required to achieve health benefits,» says Professor Jennifer Kuk, School of Kinesiology and Health Science.

Lieberman has some personal insight on the benefits of physical activity, which he says has been helpful with his own anxiety levels.

«Praise may motivate young adults with autism to exercise more: Due to the special benefits of regular physical activity for people with autism, researchers explored how to increase their engagement in a regular exercise routine through positive reinforcement..»

«You get a nice array of health benefits by doing five hours of light physical activity per week,» said Cardinal, who is a national expert on the benefits of physical activity and a co-author of the study.

«Above all, we do not want to create the impression that walking to school is bad for children's health because the opposite is true: walking or cycling to school, which builds physical activity into the child's daily routine, has health benefits that far outweigh any negative impact of air pollution» explains Jordi Sunyer, head of ISGlobal's Child Health Programme and co-author of the study.

Professor Thangaratinam added: «Often with interventions like these, certain groups benefit more than others, but we've shown that diet and physical activity has a beneficial effect across all groups, irrespective of your body mass index (BMI), age or ethnicity; so these interventions have the potential to benefit a huge number of people.»

But we show that the babies are not affected by physical activity or dieting, and that there are additional benefits including a reduction in maternal weight gain, diabetes in pregnancy, and the risk of requiring a caesarean section.

While the health boost from regular physical activity is undisputed, the benefits of vitamin D supplements haven't yet been proven for heart health.

Health benefits associated with regular physical activity include protection from cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes and different types of cancer.

But the researchers on the new study wanted to know what the minimum threshold was — the lowest amount of physical activity that could still provide health benefits, said Dr. Srinivasan Beddhu, a kidney specialist at the University of Utah School of Medicine in Salt Lake City and lead author of the new study.

A new study shows that children with Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder follow fewer healthy lifestyle behaviors than non-ADHD youth, suggesting that they may benefit from improving lifestyle choices such as increasing water consumption, decreasing screen time and getting at least one hour of physical activity per day.

This review shows uniform recognition that exercise and physical activity are safe for those with lung cancer, patients are requesting increased activity counseling, and multiple studies and reviews show potential clinical benefit in quality of life, exercise tolerance, and post-operative complications.

While WHO formulates its recommendations in terms of moderate - to - vigorous activity, the researchers say there is a growing consensus for the benefits of reducing sedentary behavior and increasing even low - intensity levels of physical activity.

Dr. Gerard A. Silvestri, Dr. Brett Bade, and colleagues at Medical University of South Carolina have reviewed the safety, benefits, and application of increasing physical activity and exercise in lung cancer with the goal to summarize the effect on improved lung cancer outcomes.

They conclude that: «The benefits relating to physical activity following meals suggest that current guidelines should be amended to specify post-meal activity, particularly when meals contain a substantial amount of carbohydrate.»

The study found that exercising after meals delivered a greater benefit from physical activity, resulting in significantly lower blood glucose levels, and suggesting that the timing of PA may confer significant additional health benefits on top of those provided by the activity itself.

«Our daily lifestyle physical activities are supportive of brain health, and adults of all ages should continue to try and increase lifestyle physical activity to gain these benefits,» Halloway said.

He continues: «Our results suggest that the health benefits of physical activity are apparent even at levels below the recommended levels, compared to not doing any activity, but also that benefits are greater still for those who exceed the minimum recommendations, such that even when PA was as high as 60 MET hours / week benefits continued to occur, with the risk of developing T2D being more than halved in those individuals.»

Until more recently, previous research has focused on the therapeutic benefit of increased moderate - vigorous activity, as opposed to habitual physical activity.

TV viewing is generally sedentary and solitary, denying children many health benefits of physical activity and socialization.

«Discussions about the benefits of exercise should start when we are young, and physical activity should continue to be part of our daily lives as we get older, even at 80 years old.»

So I was disappointed that your article on the health benefits of physical activity continued to push the old idea of long, boring workouts that do not really do any good, while ignoring this new research (25 August, p 38).

Researchers know that all alcohol, not just wine, can cause slight increases in levels of HDL or «good» cholesterol, but those same benefits could be obtained from physical activity or niacin pills.