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Bookmark or Share- The secret to better health — exercise - Harvard HealthRegular exercise can also help you sleep better, reduce stress, control your weight, brighten your mood, sharpen your mental functioning, and improve your sex life. A well-rounded exercise program has four components: aerobic activity, strength training, flexibility training, and balance exercises.
- Importance of Exercise: Benefits & Recommended Types - Harvard HealthHow much exercise you should be getting depends on several factors, including your current level of fitness, your fitness goals, the types of exercise you’re planning to do, and whether you have deficits in such areas as strength, flexibility or balance.
- The many ways exercise helps your heart - Harvard HealthHere's a closer look at how exercise affects the body and brain and how these adaptations protect your heart. For examples of aerobic exercise and muscle-strengthening exercises, see "Exercise recommendations and examples."
- Exercise can boost your memory and thinking skillsOne finding is that engaging in a program of regular exercise of moderate intensity over six months or a year is associated with an increase in the volume of selected brain regions. Exercise can also boost memory and thinking indirectly by improving mood and sleep, and by reducing stress and anxiety.
- More evidence that exercise can boost mood - Harvard HealthHaving access to genetic data allowed researchers to use genetic variations between people as a kind of natural experiment to better see how exercise affects depression, and vice versa, says Choi. What they found is that exercise was able to independently reduce the risk for depression.
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