why should humans engage in physical activity for their overall wellbeing?

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why should humans engage in physical activity for their overall wellbeing?

"Physical inactivity puts adults at greater risk of cardiovascular diseases such as heart attacks and strokes, type 2 diabetes, dementia and cancers such as breast and colon." this statement from the article support the point you physical activity is good for overall wellbeing due to the fact you reduce your risk in many diseases and health problems from staying physically active compared to someone who isn't who ha d higher chance of developing these problems then someone who does.

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physical activity postiives debate

The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends that adults have 150 minutes of moderate-intensity, or 75 minutes of vigorous-intensity physical activity, or equivalent, per week. This is just a guide line Many Humans are below this and its a problem

A number of studies have found that exercise helps depression. There are many views as to how exercise helps people with depression:

being active relates endorphins your brains feel good neurotransmitters

Main topic

intro

hook

did humans evolve into not needing to do any physical active

nearly one third (31%) of adults worldwide, approximately 1.8 billion people, did not meet the recommended levels of physical activity in 2022.

worrying trend of physical inactivity among adults,

people are too busy for physical activity especially if they don't need to be in their day to day life agreeing it could cause anxiety feeling as if your being judged being physically active if your not in shape which could cause a bad mental look on being active.

arguments

people would argue the risk of injury form being physically active is scary but in the long run its better

"not wanting to exercise is an evolutionary response to conserving energy that had its uses millennia ago."

humans many years ago didn't know when their next meal was so when they had food they would just relax but when they didn't they had to be very physically active. Resting is good when its not all the time because theirs many more positives from being physically active and getting good rest then just simple doing very limited physical activity and getting rest all the time your body will ahem atrophy.

background

Humans have evolved into less of a need to be physically active in our day today life is this neccasrily a good or bad thing for our health

with this argument that we have e evolved less and less does it mean that exercise is becoming less of a thing or is their still health benefits to it

"They had to be physically active to survive. They had to get food. They had to avoid being somebody else's food."

but since we don't need to what are the health effect of not engaging in physical activities

technology advances reduce need to be physically active.