Exercise and Mental Health Research Assignment (Essay Sample)

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Exercise and Mental Health
A Harvard Medical School associate professor and psychiatrist, John Ratey’s “Spark: Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain” explores the latent benefits of physical exercise on the brain and the muscles. In his book, we meet an introductory statement as “The real reason why we feel so good when we get out blood pumping is that it makes the brain function at its best, and in my view, this benefit of physical activity is far more important… Building muscles and conditioning the heart and lungs are essentially side effects.” I will discuss the meaning of this statement below.
Physical exercise has numerous more benefits than just prompting the process of muscle hypertrophy and resulting in healthy lungs and heart. Exercise enhances the test scores, ease hyperactivity disorder and reduces disruptive and emotional behavioral disorder. In Ratey’s perspective, the positive influence of exercise on an individual is limitless. People should not just perceive muscle hypertrophy, reducing of cardiovascular diseases as well as improving agility, endurance and coordination of lungs and heart as the only reasons why they should engage in regular physical exercise. Moreover, regular physical exercise for the children can reduce their chances of having morbid obesity that may increase the risks of developing endo...