The secret to a healthy old age - in childhood sports

Healthy and active aging depends on how often you exercise in adolescence. Scientists have found that if students are regularly subjected to physical activity itself, they are much less after 70 visit doctors.

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Researchers at Cornell University in the United States once again proved an absolute benefit of school physical education . Now it is proved that their effect is to maximize long-playing, as the positive effect of physical activity in adolescence is felt through many decades. If students regularly participate in sports, they are much less likely to go to the doctors when crossing the 70-year mark.

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The researchers tracked the health of 712 World War II veterans who were once healthy young people. It was found that the more often these people in the 1930s and 40s were engaged in a variety of sports, the less doctor visits they made after 70 year as compared to their peers who are not fond of a youth sports.

The number and intensity physical education   in the teenage years was the best prediction tool Health elderly man . The researchers say their results once again demonstrate the need to more actively involve students in sports. Those children who, for whatever reasons, refrain from physical education, then often gain weight and suffer from problems with physical and mental health.

The researchers came to the sad conclusion - the level of sports preparation of today's children is significantly lower than their peers a few generations ago. (READ MORE)

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