Sports & Health

Sports and physical activity are essential for maintaining good health. Regular exercise helps to strengthen the muscles in the body, maintain body shape and improve appearance, improve circulation and metabolism activity, open the appetite and eat healthy foods, eliminate accumulated fats in the body that cause weight gain, and prevent chronic diseases such as heart disease, high blood pressure, cancer, diabetes, and strokes. Playing sports contributes to muscle development, coordination, cardiovascular health and numerous other benefits associated with disease prevention; physical activity can help ward off chronic diseases including cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cancer, hypertension, obesity, depression and osteoporosis. Just by partaking in regular sporting activities, more oxygen can be drawn into your body while the waste gases and carbon monoxide gets expelled. This helps to increase lung capacity and improves one’s lung function and efficiency.