Lowers the risk of developing high blood pressure. Reduces the risk of developing colon cancer. Helps people achieve and maintain a healthy body weight. Reduces feelings of depression and anxiety. Promotes psychological well-being and reduces feelings of stress.
Helps build and maintain healthy bones, muscles and joints.
Helps older adults become stronger and better able to move without falling or becoming excessively fatigued. Any bodily movement produced by skeletal muscles that results in the use of energy. Includes a broad range of occupational, leisure and routine daily activities. A measure of a person's ability to perform physical activities that requires endurance, strength or flexibility and is determined by a combination of regular activity and personal inherited ability. A physical activity that is planned or structured.