Emotional Mental Health: Teens Tend To Imitate The Example Set By Their Parents

So there’re never enough hours in the day to do everything.

Teens are very aware of how their parents manage to fit exercise into their day -or if they do not for that matter.

Teens tend to imitate the example set by their parents. 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. You should take this seriously. Things come up that push exercise to the back burner. Although, the 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 similar to obesity, hypertension and diabetes to name a few.

Quite a few findings included.

Few people, however, are aware of the links between physical activity and mental and emotional health. It’s an interesting fact that 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. So a recent study conducted with gonna report sleep problems. Boys who did less than sixty minutes of vigorous physical activity a day had more symptoms of anxiety and depression than boys who were more active. Sounds familiar? 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.