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BENEFITS OF FITNESS AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY |
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Physical
Benefits |
Mental
Benefits |
- Burns fat
- Lowers total cholesterol levels and increases
HDL (good cholesterol)
- Strengthens bones which helps prevent osteoporosis
- Improves body composition ratios
- Improves balance
- Increases muscular strength and flexibility
- Helps to reduce or maintain body weight
- Reduces the risk of such ailments as high blood
pressure, heart disease, diabetes, colon cancer
and ovarian cancer
- Enhances certain aspects of the immune function
- Increases life expectancy
- Lessens menstrual cramps, PMS symptoms, and
labor pains
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- Increases self-esteem
- Enhances mood
- Reduces stress
- Controls anxiety and tension levels
- Reduces depression
- Increases feeling of well-being
- Improves concentration
- Increases relaxation, enabling you to sleep
better
- Possibly boosts brain functioning
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