{"id":339,"date":"2019-08-15T11:31:10","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T15:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bmcched110.commons.gc.cuny.edu\/?p=339"},"modified":"2021-08-05T18:07:08","modified_gmt":"2021-08-05T18:07:08","slug":"physical-activity-and-exercise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/hed-110-comp-health-ed-fall-2021-shneyderman\/2019\/08\/15\/physical-activity-and-exercise\/","title":{"rendered":"Physical activity and exercise"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of the major risk factors for health-problems like cardiovascular illness is a sedentary lifestyle. Any body movement is called physical activity, things like walking your dog, walking to work, cleaning your house, and so on. More physical activity is always better &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/physicalactivity\/basics\/index.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/physicalactivity\/basics\/index.htm<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Exercise refers to a specific type of physical activity, one that is repetitive, structured, planned, and usually done for the purpose of improving health, increasing physical fitness, or looking and feeling better. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Regular physical activity and exercise reduce people&#8217;s risk for chronic health conditions like cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, stroke, and several types of cancer &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/health.gov\/paguidelines\/second-edition\/pdf\/Physical_Activity_Guidelines_2nd_edition.pdf#page=55\">https:\/\/health.gov\/paguidelines\/second-edition\/pdf\/Physical_Activity_Guidelines_2nd_edition.pdf#page=55<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Key recommendations for health benefits are as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bmcched110.commons.gc.cuny.edu\/files\/2019\/08\/physical-activity-guidelines-CDC-1024x647.png\" alt=\"Physical activity guidelines from CDC - at least 150 minutes of moderate or 75 of vigorous aerobic activity, muscle-strengthening activities for all muscle groups at least 2 days a week, and a total of 300 minutes of physical activity per week.\" class=\"wp-image-340\" \/><figcaption>From CDC.gov<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the major risk factors for health-problems like cardiovascular illness is a sedentary lifestyle. Any body movement is called physical activity, things like walking your dog, walking to work, cleaning your house, and so on. More physical activity is always better &#8211; https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/physicalactivity\/basics\/index.htm. Exercise refers to a specific type of physical activity, one that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/hed-110-comp-health-ed-fall-2021-shneyderman\/2019\/08\/15\/physical-activity-and-exercise\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Physical activity and exercise&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"portfolio_post_id":0,"portfolio_citation":"","portfolio_annotation":"","openlab_post_visibility":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-slo7","tag-readings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/hed-110-comp-health-ed-fall-2021-shneyderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/hed-110-comp-health-ed-fall-2021-shneyderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/hed-110-comp-health-ed-fall-2021-shneyderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/hed-110-comp-health-ed-fall-2021-shneyderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/hed-110-comp-health-ed-fall-2021-shneyderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/hed-110-comp-health-ed-fall-2021-shneyderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1180,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/hed-110-comp-health-ed-fall-2021-shneyderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions\/1180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/hed-110-comp-health-ed-fall-2021-shneyderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/hed-110-comp-health-ed-fall-2021-shneyderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/hed-110-comp-health-ed-fall-2021-shneyderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}