1. Exercise and Health Related Fitness

2. Exercise and Health Related Fitness
What is the role of exercise in health promotion?
Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.
Thomas Jefferson
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3. Exercise and Health Related Fitness
Short term cost of inactivity
- metabolic deterioration
- weight gain
Intermediate term cost of inactivity
- increase of disease such as diabetes
- premature mortality (earlier death)

4. Exercise and Health-Related Fitness
Benefits of Exercise
- Prevent increase in blood pressure
- Enhance blood lipid panel

5. Exercise and Health-Related Fitness
Benefits of Exercise
- Prevent weight gain and metabolic syndrome
- Prevent Type 2 Diabetes

6. Exercise and Health-Related Fitness
The Cost of Diabetes: American Diabetes Association®
- Reduce the risk of heart disease
- Reduce risk of stroke

7. Exercise and Health Related Fitness
- Reduce the risk of colon, breast and prostate cancer

8. Exercise and Health-Related Fitness
- Improve self-image
- Reduce mental depression
- Enhance cognitive functions in the elderly
- Reduce the risk of falls in the elderly
- Delay the onset and severity of Alzheimer’s

9. Exercise and Health-Related Fitness
- Improve bone health
- Reduce arthritis pain
- Improve immune function

10. Exercise and Health-Related Fitness
- Promote healthy pregnancy of mother and fetus
- Improve quality of sleep
- Improve quality of life

11. Exercise and Health Related Fitness
Exercise benefits male and female alike. It benefits young and old.
It increases life expectancy 3.5 years.
If you had to pick one thing that came closest to the fountain of youth, it would be exercise.