BECOME A VOLUNTEER
Regular exercise and healthy foods can reduce stress and symptoms of mental health, as well as conditions related to depression and anxiety. It not only benefits your physical and mental health, it stimulates your brain chemicals and helps to improve moral, memory, learning, and your moods. It can also help to reduce any feelings of loneliness and isolation.
Some benefits of exercise include reducing the risk of:
- High blood pressure
- Heart and lung disease
- Cancer
- Dementia
- Obesity
- Diabetes
- Alzheimer’s disease
- Parkinson’s disease
Mental health benefits include:
- Mind stimulation
- Improving your sleep
- Alzheimer’s disease
- Parkinson’s disease
How much exercise is really needed?
Doctors recommend at least 30 minutes of moderate to intensive exercise for adults, at least 3 days a week. Shorter intervals throughout the day are equally acceptable (i.e., 15 minutes 6 times a day).
The Department of Health and Human Services recommends children and adolescents age 6 and older need at least an hour a day of moderate or vigorous aerobic activity. Additionally, children should participate in muscle and bone strengthening activities at least three days a week.
