More and more research and information is pointing directly to Exercise as truly being "medicine". Not only is it necessary to avoid chronic illnesses such as heart disease & stroke, but mental health & well-being (as well as learning) are intrinsically linked to movement and exercise. We Physical Education folks and Fitness Professionals have "known" this for years via personal testimony and a pleathora of anctedotal stories.
Finally actual well-designed research is being published that document the changes at a bio-chemical & hormonal level. Exercise is so much more than neuro-muscular improvements. I would consider those changes healthy "side-effects" compared to the positive mental & emotional changes.
sAq
Few medicines as strong as exercise exercise, medicine, muscle - Life - The Orange County Register
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