A recent trend that we see in modern society is the shift of perception towards more focus in health-related issues. Over the years, individuals and society as a whole has realized that rather than spending thousands of dollars in medicines and other health-related expenditures, prevention still remains to be the best you are. This shift towards a healthy lifestyle includes many factors. However, for the specific focus of paper, we would be looking at exercise as one of the methods in order for individuals to be able to enjoy a healthier lifestyle.
Therefore, we claim that constant exercise, being the subject of most health-related issues, and being physically fit would help you prevent the risk of having health-related problems, being overweight, and emotionally stressed. However, before we are able to do indicate the various research and findings that have been made by the modern medical community as to the efficiency and effectiveness of exercise regarding health concerns, we must first be able to define what is. Exercise, more commonly called as physical exercise, are bodily activities that cause the heart rate to increase at above normal resting levels.
Exercise is mainly done for physical and recently, because of the discovery of health-related benefits that result from it. However, exercise is not merely constrained to health, although it is the topic that we shall be discussing here in our paper. Some people undergo exercise in to improve their physical characteristics and external features such as muscles and the like. Also, exercise is used by the athletic community in order to hone specific athletic skills that are connected to the respective exercise that is assigned to them.
Now that we have stated our thesis statement, and provided a broad definition of what exercise is, we could now be able to cite the various evidence in the claim that exercise does indeed provide individuals with a healthier lifestyle. As early as 1985, a public health report has been made by the public medical center of the government. Here, they have enumerated the various physical activities, or exercises, that provide specific targets with respect to improvement.
Basically, what this study is is a list of the various exercises concerned with the different parts and aspects of the bodily functions (Caspersen, Powell, & Christenson, 1985). In 1999, a journal article that focused on the quality of life research made on patients had discovered that the quality of life is directly related to the various health-related issues that a person experiences. In the study, they had evaluated participants which were randomly assigned to different kinds of programs and lifestyle physical activities.
(fontaine et al. , 1999). What they had discovered in their empirical analysis was that participants that involve themselves in exercise and other physical activities resulted in higher quality of life perceptions. The researchers had further concluded that this directly resulted from the weight-loss and the accompanying perceptions of individuals that a healthier option appearance of the body that was a direct result of the exercise they had made contributed greatly to their happiness.
Also, the methodology that was used by the study is to select specific physical activities and it has been discovered that aerobics have a higher correlation to increase perceptions to the quality of life by patients. A misconception that is often related to physical exercise is that if it is health-related concerns on why one is doing exercise, then it is probably from middle-aged idol to. In connection with this, another misconception is that for children and adolescents, exercise is only used as a means of re-creation of physical activity.
However, research has shown that cardiac specific health-related issues and their relationship to exercise is not only segregated to adults but also to children and adolescents as well. Previously, exercise for health — and not just for the athletic sense and recreational sense — for young adults was for those individuals with heart related problems. However, recent research has shown that exercise could also be a preventative measure that allows for children and young adults to improve cardiac functions and other heart related activities as a preparation for the deterioration of such organs in the future (M. Kamphuis et al. , 2004).
However, a common criticism that is made by those against exercise in the medical community says that diet and exercise intervention programs in healthy men with cardiovascular risk factors is dangerous. However, this misconception has been removed by many studies that have proven that the quality of life of these individuals, using a specific sample size in order to correlate and analyze the data, is not negatively affected by such diet and exercise. In fact, for healthy men with cardiovascular risk factors, a modified form of exercise is actually beneficial to their overall long-term health (Hellenius, Dahlof, Aberg, Krakau, & Faire, 1995).
Another specific issue that is directly related to exercise and cardiovascular activities is that there may be unintended consequences of exercise especially for individuals that have previous history of problems in their blood pressure. However, again, such misconceptions have been proven wrong. Although the traditional methods of exercise enough individuals with blood pressure problems, health specialists may be able to modify exercise programs to fit their specific conditions. In the long-term, the result is positive and would actually decrease the rate of rise of the blood pressure of these individual (S.
Chen, Jason F. Shogren, Orazem, & Crocker, 2002). However, according to the research that we have made, there are also individuals with heart failure who indeed have a specific tolerance for exercising. What this means is that they do not gain entry to the overall benefits and effects of exercising (Jeng, Yang, P. Chen, & Ho, 2004). However, the evidence suggests that although there is a rate of tolerance for obese patients with pre-existing heart failure problems, there are also benefits that could still be made.
And it is definitely true, especially in the medical sense, that’s a little help goes a long way. Remember that we are discussing heart problems and cardiovascular issues, as well as the positive effects of exercise on such cardiovascular operations. As the overwhelming evidence suggests, exercise indeed has a positive effect in the operations of the heart and its interactions with the human body. With respect to the issue of obesity, exercise, even in the intuitive sense, plays a large role in the prevention or the solution to the disease.
From an early stage in life, there are already individuals who experience obesity issues — such events are called pediatric obesity. However, although traditional methods for treating the obese such as using surgery, psychology and therapy to correct such disorders could not be applied to babies, the medical community has discovered that exercise even at this fragile age — exercise that is of course adapted to their age group so that they would not have unnecessary body stress — significantly decreases the nature of obesity for these children.
Even children at an early age who experience diagnose childhood obesity recommence exercise in order to be one of the intervention strategies that families may be able to make so that the level of childhood obesity — as well as the probability of carrying that obesity in the future — is decreased (Gable & Lutz, 2000).
Again, here, just to prove a thesis statement, there is overwhelming evidence both in the medical community, indeed intuitive sense, and even in the various cutting-edge literature and research that has been made in the topic that obesity is significantly decreased — both in the sense of future probability of obesity and even during current obesity — with exercise. However, in this paper, we do not claim that exercise is the one and only solution in curing this disease. There are many other factors involved and references and literature are available to explain such a topic.
However, what we are saying here is that exercise and physical activities play an important and relevant variable when it comes to the subject of obesity (Barbarin & Tirado, 1985). One last factor that we would like to take into consideration in the various benefits that exercise thing is that it significantly reduces stress levels. Although the evidence that supports this has only been developed recently, generations have already discovered that undergoing in physical activities and exercises reduce stress levels.
However, because of the availability of new tools in science and statistics, researchers have now been able to measure the relevant and significant effects of exercise to reducing stress. For example, even in the discipline of counseling and psychology, counselors — even though their expertise is in the realm of the mind — recommend constant exercise as had been proven by the medical community because it plays a significant role in variable in the decrease of stress (Mullen & Tabak, 1989).
Also, earlier studies have been made that the quality of life with relation to stress of men and women who have farming as their profession — an activity which requires high amount of physical movement — is that their stress levels are significantly lower as compared to people whose jobs do not involve extensive physical activities (Keating, 1987). There are many other studies proving that exercise does indeed significantly help decrease stress. Some studies have even identified exercise as one of the leading variables in such stress reduction.
As a result, the medical community is applying extensive physical activities for stress reduction in the area of social psychology and therapy. As we have seen, there is overwhelming research that proves our thesis statement that exercise does indeed improve cardiovascular health, helps cure obesity, and significantly reduces stress.
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