{"id":2497,"date":"2023-05-14T23:22:52","date_gmt":"2023-05-14T23:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/?p=2497"},"modified":"2023-05-14T23:22:52","modified_gmt":"2023-05-14T23:22:52","slug":"study-shows-physical-exercise-helps-protect-the-mental-health-of-pre-teens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/?p=2497","title":{"rendered":"Study shows physical exercise helps protect the mental health of pre teens"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>During the\u00a0pandemic, it struck me that some of the worst effects were felt by\u00a0teenagers. Besides not being able to socialise with their friends, there was the shutting down of\u00a0physical activity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How important was that to them? And what harmful effects did it have?<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/e454c302-3ac8-4650-8f1c-e195f83a410d\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To answer those questions, in a world first, researchers from the universities of Edinburgh, Strathclyde, Bristol, and Georgia in the US, looked at the levels of physical activity in 4,755 11-year-olds, which was measured using devices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These recorded levels of moderate physical activity \u2013 typically defined as brisk walking or cycling \u2013 as well as vigorous activity that boosts heart rate and breathing, such as aerobic dancing, jogging or swimming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/lifestyle\/health\/study-shows-physical-exercise-helps-29976883.amp\">The Mirror<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the\u00a0pandemic, it struck me that some of the worst effects were felt by\u00a0teenagers. Besides not being able to socialise&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2498,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2497","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\/2497","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=2497"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2499,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2497\/revisions\/2499"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}