I found an article online at greatist.com. The title of the article is “13 Unexpected Benefits of Exercise” written by Sophia Breene.
This article shows a few ways on how exercise can help people not only physically, but mentally. Stress relief is one of the largest benefits one receives when an individual exercises. People with anxiety can be calmed down with a simple workout. Alzheimers can be slowed down or prevented by eating healthy and exercising. Different studies on mice and men have shown that working out and exercising, specifically cardiovascular, can help create new brain cells and improve the overall performance of one’s brain and mental functions. Daily physical activity can increase the production of cells that are used for memory and learning. Sprinting can increase one’s vocabulary. Breene states that “Research shows that workers who take time for exercise on a regular basis are more productive and have more energy than their more sedentary peers”, which is hard to believe.
I think this article was really helpful to understand the benefits of eating well and exercising. Most people think that exercising only helps your physical appearance when in reality it helps a lot more than that. It amazes me that something as simple as running sprints can improve your vocabulary comprehension, or that any cardiovascular activity can reduce your chances of developing alzheimers at a later date. A question I’d like to ask the author is, What makes different activities beneficial to different things? Why aren’t all types of exercises beneficial to your mind and only a few are? Understanding that physical activity and healthy eating can improve the basic functions of one’s brain, as well as the more complex functions, can help an individual for his or her future.
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I agree with the article's points on the connection between intelligence and exercise. I also agree with your point of "understanding that physical activity and healthy eating can improve the basic functions of one’s brain, as well as the more complex functions, can help an individual for his or her future".
ReplyDeleteJohn, I'm glad you did one post that focused more specifically on intramural sports and one that focused on the broader issue of general exercise. Keep finding a variety of sources. For this next week, I suggest you hone in more specifically on UK's intramural sports. Also, in addition to providing a summary and asking questions, you need to start reflecting on how these articles are related to your specific topic and how you could use the sources in a documentary on that topic. I'm assuming that your topic is intramural sports at UK, so these articles could be used to provide background information on the importance of exercise and organized sports activities at colleges. This might go at the beginning of your documentary before talking about UK intramurals specifically, but you can think about other ways of organizing a documentary as well.
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