Lack Of Physical Activity Can Cause Death!

How often do You do physical activity in one day? Do You include people who are lazy about physical activity? Do type lazy people move?

Well, if you include the last of the type mentioned above, maybe you should also speak to consider.

The World Health Organization — the World Health Organization (WHO) — have been getting data, that as much as 23% of adults, and 81% of teens in the world less doing physical activity.

Did you know, that lack of physical activity causes approximately 3.2 million people died? Yes, in fact, less physical activity turned out to be a risk factor of death in the world.

The less risky physical activity affected by the disease is not contagious, such as stroke, diabetes, and cancer. It is estimated as many as 21-25% of breast cancer and colon cancer, diabetes and 27% 30% ischaemic heart disease is caused because of the sufferer less physical activity.

What Is Physical Activity?

Many people consider, that physical activity equal to work out. Well, if you too are one of those who thinks this way, you are wrong.

Physical activity is the movement of the muscles of the body so the energy that exists in the body is used. Sports are part of the movement is structured physical activity.

Physical activity not only exercise but also includes:

Daily activities. For example, walk or cycle to work or school, doing homework, gardening, doing a hobby that demanded active motion such as Do It Yourself, for example — also other activity that demands you work manually, not with a machine or technology.

A recreational activity that demands an active movement, such as dancing, doing children's games, such as play catch-up.

Sports, from the start of the pool or gym, high impact or low impact, all sports categorized as a physical activity

Yes, so physical activity is not just limited to sports alone, Yes, but all the activities that make us move actively.

What are the benefits of physical activity for health?

By doing physical activity, we can obtain many benefits, among them:

1.   Control your weight.

2.    Reduce the risk of cardiovascular diseases, such as heart disease and stroke, as well as lowering blood pressure.

3. Reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes, as did physical activity will help control the sugar levels in the blood.

4. Reduce the risk of cancer, such as lung cancer, breast cancer, and colon cancer. For patients with cancer, doing a physical activity can improve physical health and quality of life.

5. Strengthen bones and muscles, and will improve the ability of pain for patients with arthritis or joint pain, so it is more comfortable in performing daily activities.

6. promote mental health and mood, as well as preventing depression.

7. A person who often experience insomnia, physical activity can help to be able to sleep better.

8. get comfortable With doing physical activity as a sedentary lifestyle can increase the age of life expectancy.

How long should ideally we need Time to do physical activity To healthy?

Children and adolescents aged 6 to 17 years of age need to do physical activity for 60 minutes a day. Physical activity can be done such as walking to school, cycling, playing soccer, basketball or tennis, playing jump rope, climbing trees, playing actively with friends and family, dancing or doing yoga.

Need a physical activity for adults aged 18 to 64 years are slightly different, i.e. for at least 150 minutes or 2 hours 30 minutes moderate activity for during the week, or 75 minutes a week for a strenuous activity.

In addition to its daily physical activity, adults also need to increase physical activity by doing activities that involve muscle strength, such as gardening, sit-ups or push-ups 2 times or more in a week.

If you observe, time 2 hours 30 minutes for a week is not a long time Yes. Well, almost the same time to watch the film once.

If this just feels heavy for you, to make it easier and feels light, moderate activity can be done 30 minutes per day for 5 days. and 2 days to do activities for muscle strength.

If you choose to do strenuous activity, then you can do it for 25 minutes per day in 3 days, and 2 the next day to do the activities that train the muscle strength.

A medium activity that you can do e.g. walk, doing aerobics, cycling or play tennis, so double heart rate increased slightly.

The strenuous activity would make the intensity of breath going up and heart rate increased even more, and it's worth it once we do. Activities that we can do, such as jogging, swimming, cycling or cycling in the hills, playing singles tennis or basketball.

Do one-minute strenuous activity equal to do 2 minutes of moderate activity. If you want to do a combination of moderate physical activity and weight, then you can do so by 3 days to moderate physical activity for 30 minutes per day, 2 days for strenuous activity for 15 minutes per day, and other activity for 2 days physical for muscle strength.

For the elderly (elderly) who are aged 65 years and over, the same as the physical activity needs of people aged 18 to 64 years. Physical activity for the elderly can be useful to prevent the occurrence of a wide range of health problems. Elderly with low mobility can do physical activity 3 or more days a week to maintain the body's balance and prevent the fall. Customize activities physical activity with the conditions and the ability of the body.

Physical activity for pregnant women

Of course the expectant mothers also need physical activity every day. By no means because the middle is pregnant, then you could just laze around all day. It is precisely this could harm your pregnancy health.

Pregnant women and nursing mothers should keep doing physical activity, unless there is a specific medical reason. Physical activity is essentially will not affect pregnancy, to result in a baby born with low weight, premature birth, miscarriage or reduce the amount of BREAST MILK produced by the mother. Thus physical activity will be more healthy for pregnant women and nursing mothers.

It's just that, although he is allowed to play physical, pregnant women need to avoid activities that involve lying on your back or movement. Also avoid activities that are at risk of falling over and causing injury to the stomach. For example, like playing basketball.

Physical activity also is recommended to be done by nursing mothers or post-birth, because physical activity is able to let go of the stress and fatigue that may be experienced, can increase the good mood on mothers, as well as to help lose weight post birth.

Well, from the explanation above, you now convinced, that it is important for us to continue physical activity, whether it's doing homework, leisure or exercise.

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