- A sedentary lifestyle is the main cause of the increased incidence of several diseases - hypertension, diabetes, obesity, anxiety, increased cholesterol, myocardial infarction are some of the examples of diseases that a individual is exposed.
- Physical inactivity is considered the factor of main risk for sudden death and is often associated directly or indirectly to causes or aggravation of most diseases.
- Other examples of consequences of not practicing exercise regularly:
- Slow-witted: Sedentary people produce less neurotransmitters. Their lack hinders the passage of electrical impulses between a neuron and another by calling Synapse, which can leave the slow thinking;
- Weariness: Weakness caused by exercise or illness.
- Stress: Set of organic and psychic reactions of adaptation which the body makes when it is exposed to any stimulus that excites it, annoy, frighten or make you feel very happy.
- Social isolation: Removes from the Man the possibility of building a collective conscience and collective interaction. Social isolation can be caused by emotional, psychological and social blockades.
- Loss of articular flexibility: Flexibility depends on several factors such as joint mobility, muscular elasticity, tissue mass (muscle and fat) and skin, which are its components (variables) physiological.
- Hypotrophy of muscular fiber: loss of strength or of size of the muscle body.
- Fatty liver: Known as non alcoholic hepatic steatosis, this disease is a result of lack of exercise.
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