Risk of Lack of Physical Activities

It’s no surprise that exercise has numerous benefits, such as keeping off excess weight, making your bones strong, keeping your heart healthy and most important part brain remains healthy. On the contrary, not exercising can have adverse health effects. It can make your bones weak, cause your organs to malfunction and cause you to gain weight, which might lead to one or more obesity-related medical conditions, such as diabetes or hypertension.

MuscleAtrophy

Muscle atrophy is the medical term that describes the process of your muscles wasting away. When your muscles are not exercised to their full capacity, they begin to break down, according to the American Council on Exercise. Not only does this cause you lose lean muscle mass, but it also causes fatty tissue to develop around your muscles. Muscle burns fat, so when your body does not have much muscle, your metabolism slows, and you begin to gain weight.

CardiacDecline

Lack of exercise can also cause fatty deposits to develop around your heart and in your arteries, notes the American Council on Exercise. Fatty deposits can also enter the valves and chambers of your heart, which can lead to heart failure or a heart attack. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that in 2006, approximately 2.4 million Americans died from heart disease, and heart disease is still one of the leading causes of death in America.

The study was carried out by a collaboration of international academic researchers on behalf of the Lancet Physical Activity Series Working Group. The report stated that the research received no direct funding.

The researchers stated that strong evidence shows physical inactivity increases the risk of many major adverse health conditions including:

·       Death (from any cause)

·       Coronary heart disease

·       High blood pressure

·       Stroke

·       Metabolic syndrome (including obesity and abnormal blood cholesterol levels)

·       Breast and colon cancer

·       Depression

This link is a major public health issue. The researchers aimed to quantify the effect of physical inactivity on these major conditions by estimating how much a disease could be prevented if inactive people were to become more active and to estimate the gain in life expectancy this could produce.