{"id":1361,"date":"2020-05-24T23:17:30","date_gmt":"2020-05-24T23:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/?p=1361"},"modified":"2020-05-24T23:17:30","modified_gmt":"2020-05-24T23:17:30","slug":"more-people-are-using-exercise-to-help-manage-their-mental-health-according-to-a-new-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/?p=1361","title":{"rendered":"More people are using exercise to help manage their mental health, according to a new survey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The majority of people are now using exercise to manage their mental health during the coronavirus pandemic, according to a new survey.<\/p>\n<p>Research conducted by Sport England, to coincide with Mental Health Awareness Week, found that 63% of people across the first six weeks of lockdown were staying active to look after their minds.<\/p>\n<p>It discovered that people are turning to fitness as a result of the restrictions on movement since late March.<\/p>\n<p>These included working out at home, running in the park and walking or cycling to the shops for essentials.<\/p>\n<p>Initially, the government allowed people to leave their homes once a day for local activity, and earlier this month sanctioned unlimited exercise.<\/p>\n<p>The survey also showed that over time, concerns about leaving home have eased &#8211; with 60% worried about this in the first fortnight, and a reduced 47% in week six of lockdown.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/exercise-manage-mental-health-fitness-123051705.html\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The majority of people are now using exercise to manage their mental health during the coronavirus pandemic, according to a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1362,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exercise"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1361"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1363,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361\/revisions\/1363"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}