Scientific News Today …<\/p>\n
Have you thought that exercise is only good for strong muscles, a lean body, and a strong heart?\u00c2\u00a0 It certainly is — and that’s not all!\u00c2\u00a0 In addition to these physical benefits, physical activity has been shown to help with being emotionally and mentally fit.<\/p>\n
There is a growing body of research demonstrating that exercise promotes mental health and wellness.\u00c2\u00a0 Researchers at Duke University studied people suffering from depression.\u00c2\u00a0 They found that 60% of the participants who exercises for 30 minutes\u00c2\u00a0three times a week overcame their depression without using antidepressant medication.\u00c2\u00a0 This is the same percentage rate\u00c2\u00a0as for those who only used medication in their treatment for depression.<\/p>\n
Of course, you don’t have to have a clinical Mental Illness to get mental-health benefits from exercise and fitness!\u00c2\u00a0 One study found that short workouts of 8 minutes\u00c2\u00a0in length could help lower sadness, tension and anger.\u00c2\u00a0 They could also improve resistance to disease in healthy people.<\/p>\n
Many people exercise to boost confidence, and to reduce anxiety and stress.\u00c2\u00a0 Certainly, all of these contribute to psychological health and well-being.\u00c2\u00a0 So, exercise can be viewed as a preventative — a wellness activity — to strengthen physical and emotional health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Have you thought that exercise is only good for strong muscles, a lean body, and a strong heart? It certainly is — and that’s not all! In addition to these physical benefits, physical activity has been shown to help with being emotionally and mentally fit. To learn more about research on the benefits of exercise, read, “Exercise: Key to Mental, Emotional AND Physical Fitness”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emotional-healing","category-mental-healing","category-physical-healing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mentalhealth-online.com\/mentalhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mentalhealth-online.com\/mentalhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mentalhealth-online.com\/mentalhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mentalhealth-online.com\/mentalhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mentalhealth-online.com\/mentalhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mentalhealth-online.com\/mentalhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104,"href":"https:\/\/mentalhealth-online.com\/mentalhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions\/104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mentalhealth-online.com\/mentalhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mentalhealth-online.com\/mentalhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mentalhealth-online.com\/mentalhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}