BENEFITS OF THE PHYSICAL ACTIVITY FOR AGED

Abstract

From the antiquity the physical activity has been prescribed in the treatment and prevention of several illnesses. In the modern world some studies show the importance of the physical activity in the conditions of the aged health. We know that the lifestyle is one of the factors that cause disease in the current society, owed mainly to the sedentary life and unhealthy life habits in the feeding, therefore the physical activity becomes indispensable to avoid several illnesses that cause disability and precocious death. The measure that the people increase their levels of physical conditioning, they move forward towards a better quality of life with full accomplishment social, psychic, spiritual and laboral, surpassing the stress and the depression. The life activates represents economy, reducing futures medical expenses, decreasing deep responsibilities to the family and the society. The regulate physical activity to serves as a strategy of positive health, an amusement amid the lifestyle disturbed that the human beings take in the technological world of the present time, where the home, the family and the personal values are in an inferiority plan.