Essay 3
Essay 3
education. Long term ranging from twenty to fifty years and physical activity
well as adolescents. Although physical activity has a positive benefit for all ages, it is
definitely preferable for everyone to workout because there are numerous health,
physical, and psychological benefits and several more. Routine physical activity has
the ability to help avoid non-communicable diseases, such a coronary heart disease
and diabetes mellitus, causing rising cost in the health system. Results show that
physical activity is associated with better health and that the development of these
specific diseases could be avoided. Most non- communicable diseases result from
living an unhealthy lifestyle such as eating unhealthy food and or drinking excessive
amounts of alcohol, smoking, as well as physical inactivity (Reiner, Niermann, Woll &
Jekauc , 2013). There are three different points that will be made in this paper, the
depression and self confidence. These points will discuss the importance for
adolescent, at this day and age most children or even teenagers are usually glued to
their electronic devices, including the television, game cube, cellphones, laptops and
so on. They begin to become lazy due to all the time spent looking to a screen rather
than going out and moving around or playing. Also the rates of obesity in
adolescents have grown in the past years, the combination of sitting down for most
of the day and eating is the cause. People at that age are growing and need that
physical activity in their lives, how they choose to live their lives in that period of
time molds their future. Making bad decisions at that age could have a truly bad
effect on their future. Luckily schools often have a class called physical education
class, it is added into their school time, which makes it convenient but also at times
mandatory. Although not all students enjoy this course or prefer to take this course
it has been showing a positive effect for them. These classes involve light exercise
including running or jogging, yoga, intermediate sports and so on. These forms of
The benefit that this paper is focused on for school-based students is that physical
activity could improve their academic achievements. Physical activity has been said
to give students a better outlook on schoolwork. It also shows that there may be a
recent results that suggested how physical activity has a positive effect on learning
and memory. This helps children throughout their school-based career. It has also
been suggest by James S Coleman that if time is taken out of the academic programs
to allow other pursuits then academic achievements could be hindered, but adding
in that physical activity could increase self confidence as well as increase the
experience. Many different quasi-experimental studies have been used and the results
health issues such as depression. Projections are that by the year 2020, depression will be
second to heart disease in the contribution to the global burden (Chapman & Perry,
2008). Depression has never been as big of an issue as it is now, the amount of people
that have been committing suicide has increased substantially, and the age of these people
have been getting younger. In the case of school-based students many children have been
developing depression, which leads to suicide at times. The pressure on not being
societys explanation of perfect causes they insecurities. Routine physical activity clearly
relation between the two (Biddle & Asare, 2011). Physical activity working out
releases endorphins; the endorphins trigger a positive feeling similar to the medication
morphine. The evidence for this study shows a small but clear relation between the two.
Depression seems to rise sharply after puberty for girls; the burden is highest in low-
reviewed early on-set of the equivalent adult disorder. (Thapar, Collishaw, Pine &
Thapar, 2012). Although adolescents have separate problems to worry about at school
with the work and other students as well as trying to maintain a social life, when they go
back home having the same problems does no make that easier. Many children struggle
in school, but all of them need a safe place to go back to when the day ends.
Another reason that light exercise has a positive effect on adolescent would be to help
boost self-confidence. It is normal to have feelings of self doubt and low confidence
although this has become an increasing problem in the past generations due to the fact
that everyone desires to look better then the next. There is constant competition, which
causes less self-confidence and sometimes even depression. Especially in the puberty
years many children are not happy with the way they look. It has not been like this in the
past, adolescents have never been this effectuated with their looks, but with the
competition and urge to be perfect that is what it has been causing. Feeling healthier and
looking fit does have a positive effect on how people feel, everyone wants to loose that
extra weight or look as good as possible. School-based student weather they are boys or
Its been stated that physical activity in definitely related to improvement in self-esteem,
physical activity. This suggests that physical activity has a psychological benefit in youth
Light exercise has an apparent long-term benefit on all people. It is shown that light
exercise can help students achievement as well as attachment to school, depression and
outdoors moving around and getting in that physical activity rather than staying glued to
their electronics. It does have short term as well as long term benefits.
Taras, T. H. (2005, August). Physical activity and student performance at school.
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Biddle, S. J., & Asare, M. (2011, September). Physical activity and mental health in
children and adolescents: a review of reviews.
Thapar, A., Collishaw, S., Pine, D. S., & Thapar, A. K. (2012, March 17). Depression in
adolescence.