Mental Health Teens – Things Come Up That Push Exercise To The Back Burner

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Teens tend to imitate the example set by their parents.

Teens are very aware of how their parents manage to fit exercise into their day -or if they do not for that matter. Consequently, plenty of us know how way better we feel and how a great deal more productive we are when we do fit in some exercise, as adults though. We end up running late to a meeting so we grab some sort of junky snack on our way out the door. Anyway, things come up that push exercise to the back burner. Now please pay attention. US Department of Health and Human Services recommends that children and teens get approximately 60 physical minutes activity every day and that this should include a combination of training to improve strength, endurance and flexibility. We have all heard that inactivity can result in physical health problems just like obesity, hypertension and diabetes to name a few.

Few people, however, are aware of the links between physical activity and mental and emotional health.

The study was published in the October issue of Medicine Science in Sports Exercise and shows that physical inactivity also leads to social and behavioral problems in teenagers.

Quite a few findings included. Recent study conducted with gonna report sleep problems, ‘rulebreaking’ behaviors and to be depressed. With that said, both inactive boys and girls were more likely than active peers to have social and attention problems. Therefore, this alone can decrease emotional and behavioral problems, just from a scientific standpoint. Basically the researchers noted that a growing body of evidence suggests that an increase in physical activity helps reduce symptoms of depression and anxiety in both adolescents and adults. With all that said… Exercise is linked to serotonin release and endorphins, that gives us a natural high.