For example, regular brisk walking can help you: • Maintain a healthy weight • Prevent or manage various conditions, including heart disease, high blood pressure and type 2 diabetes • Strengthen your bones • Lift your mood • Improve your balance and coordination The faster, farther and more frequently you walk, the greater the benefits. Walking and biking are both excellent forms of cardiovascular exercise which, when performed regularly, can ward off disease, shed pounds, improve mental outlook and reduce the likelihood of dying young. Each have their merits and drawbacks, and which is the best choice for you largely depends upon what you'll enjoy doing most, the health of your joints and how much weight you'd like to lose. “Like walking, biking is low-impact and easy. It's also fun, and according to NutriStrategy, burns a lot of calories - significantly more than brisk walking.” (Bigelow) You’d be forgiven for wondering but stair climbing can have a significant and positive impact on an individual’s health over time.
Inactive children are likely to become inactive adults.increased physical activity has been associated with increased life expectancy and less risk of disease. physical activity helps/benefits - controlling weight Reducing blood pressure Helps motor skills Reduces the risk of diabetes Improves psychological well being,self confidence and higher self esteem Develops motor skills Improves cognitive development Enhances bone and muscular development Supports learning of social skills 1.2 - Explain the development of movement skills in young children and how these skills affect other aspects of development - Locomotive large movement skills that allow babies to gain mobility Gross motor control - whole limb movements Balance and coordination control Object control movements such as throwing,catching,dribbling a ball all which involves objects being sent,received,travelled with. Traveling movements where the child moves from one point to another such as skipping,running,jumping. To be able to do these physical skills the movement skills have to be learnt in the right order - Hand eye coordination - this is very important as we need the hand and eyes to work together, catching a ball requires information from the eyes to inform the brain that the hands need to move to catch the ball. - Foot eye coordination - to climb stairs or kick a ball the eyes need to inform the brain that the feet/foot needs to move to
Movement Melts Away Stress As much as it may stress you out just to think about exercising, once you actually start working out, you'll experience less stress in every part of your life. "Exercise produces a relaxation response that serves as a positive distraction," says Cedric Bryant, chief exercise physiologist for the American Council on Exercise. He says it also helps elevate your mood and keep depression at bay. You're not the only person who will benefit from more happiness and less stress in your life. When you're less stressed, you're less irritable, Atkinson says -- and that could improve relationships with your partner, kids, and co-workers.
Also the ability of the body healing itself without medicine is improved. Health If you lead a healthy lifestyle it can have a massive affect on your health. If you’re doing what’s needed to maintain a healthy lifestyle such as doing daily activites, eating healthier foods and drinking lots of water it can have a very positive affect on your whole body. Doing daily activites can benefit your health by strengthening your bones. If you go on running activites this can and has been proven to fight against the aging process and prevents muscle and bone loss that normally occur with age.
It is very important for children to have good mental and physical well being if a child is painfully shy and see others forming friendships- they may become distracted in lesson times due to the worry of not making friends. Ensuring a child is physically well is also important a child’s diet can effect how they perform in the class room, ensuring exercise is implemented to promote healthy living is important. If a child is over weight for example, this will possibly affect confidence and may under achieve due to worrying about their weight and possibly being
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Some of those reasons being the crime rates, the costs of what could happen, and injuries. Firearm injuries have killed more than 28,000 Americans each year since 1972 (Ruben). In 2007, thirty-one thousand two hundred twenty four Americans died due to homicides, suicides, and accidental shootings. Accidental shootings happen quite often. In 2007, around seventy thousand Americans were hospitalized due to accidental shootings.
Drunk driving is the leading cause of death for people from the age of six to thirty-three years old (Curran, 1). One in three people will be involved in an alcohol-related crash in their lifetime (MADD, 1). Everyday thirty-six people in the United States die due to the crashes and approximately 700 more are injured in car crashes that involve alcohol-impaired drivers. This year, 10,839 people will die in drunk-driving crashes; one every fifty minutes (MADD, 1). “Cracking down on those who take drugs or drink and then drive is a year round commitment for Warwickshire and West Mercia.”- West Mercia Police.
Nurses and doctors need to involve the patients and family members in their care from day one. Providing complete education to the patients on their diagnosis and treatment with a guarantee of patient and family understanding will help to keep the family more involved after the patient is discharged. Support from family will aide in the compliance of the patient with their medication treatment. Besides family support there are many resources available that patients can utilize. Instruments that can aide as resources for medication compliance included, but are not limited to, “written or verbal instructions on medication use, increased communication from automated telephone calls to family intervention, dosage reminders printed on drug packaging and increased convenience of care such as job-site pharmacies” ( Compliance; efforts to improve medication use fall flat, 2003).
You must be immunized within one week to four months prior to exposure for the vaccine to be effective. The vaccine is composed of inactivated organisms from several virus strains with scientist attempt to include the most recent mutation. Vaccines are typically 67-92 percent effective. Although most people recover fully from the flu, some develop serious complications, including life threatening conditions such as pneumonia. About 20,000 people in the United States die from flu complications each year and thousands more need to be hospitalized prior to recovery.