What effects will low levels of Physical Activity have on your body in the long term?

Answer 1

A person may put on excess weight, have low energy levels, experience low cardio output. A sedentary person is more at risk of having high cholesterol and high blood pressure. They may also have poor muscle tone and strength.

Answer 2

Physical activity makes you much more fitter, also your stamina increases, and it can also burn fat and tone your muscles, depending on which physical activity you are doing. It also increases your suppleness (it means it makes you more flexible, you are more able to stretch and bend; it is also the opposite of rigid) and strength which helps you with more strenuous tasks.

Physical activity reduces the time it takes for your heart rate to return to its resting heart rate (your resting heart rate is when your body is at rest; it is your normal heart rate when you are relaxing, for example, when you are sitting down on the sofa or lying on your bed. If you started running up the stairs or jogged on the spot, your body would not be at rest).

There is an optimum performance level which is the best for each person. A rough guide is 20 minutes a day (with a heart rate elevated so much) for three times a week. It is a fallacy that "hard work never did anybody any harm." In fact; as we exercise, we are increasing our cells metabolic rate. This in turn "uses up" the lifecycles left in each of the cells in our bodies. When we are babies this is 50 reproductions per cell. Then it diminishes to 40 as we get older. Soon it reaches a level where instead of growing, it switches back the other way and we begin to "grow" older. At some point under 30 our cells cannot maintain the repairs needed enough and errors begin to creep in. Information critical to the structure is "snipped" off each end (called Telomeres) with the resultant effect that certain brain diseases, heart defects or cancers become inevitable. It is difficult to ascertain where this balance lies. On the one hand there are those who have worked hard and lived to be a grand old age. On the other; it is also entirely possible to quiet literally work ourselves to death through wearing ourselves out. Food is another factor. And so is stress. The worse the food we eat, the more we need to work out in order to compensate for all the impurities we consume. Similarly; the more stressed out we are, the more we need to work out to negate that. This works in three ways. Firstly; whilst exercising, you are (hopefully) away from the source of stresses which plagued you in the first place. Secondly, exercise boosts the positive chemicals in your brain and body, and a happy body is a healthy body. Lastly, blasting toxins out of your body gets rid of chemical depression, which we all experience to a more or less degree even if we are not aware of it. Exercise releases endorphines which help with pain relief, and also trapped oxygen in the brain which some people become addicted to and so run and run and run until they lose an unhealthy amount of weight. In the future, the ageing factor vs. the deageing factor of exercise will be able to be calculated with relative ease.

Another phenomena is that of making the deliberate alteration to "spend" some of your "lifecycles" in a deliberate increase for a period of your life for various purposes. It might be to get that physique to attract a more attractive partner. It might be for work, such as when an athlete trains to the max. for success in his/her chosen field. Looking at old athletes, they obviously fair well from the perspective that they (ought) to have "always" been fit, know what to eat and how to look after their bodies, but have also "used" their bodies "much." Hence; some seem increased in apparent age more than others, whilst others do not. It depends too on the sport. A person engaging in a physical job such as a laborer is not gaining an advantage over someone in an office. That is; providing being there doesn't stress them out. The office worker can do a "controlled spend" of their "lifecycles" in the evening, but the physical worker is on a "forced-spend" all the day long at a level which might in no way be conducive with the preservation of health, longevity and genuine youthfullness. This new science needs to be approached sensibly. There are some who will not want to get out of bed in the morning. Others too who will resent the new knowledge that working like a horse may only result in an increase in their ageing. Strangely though, being in a stressful environment, in an otherwise healthy vocation could just as easily be the deciding factor in a heart attack as how hard somebody works physically. They are all just factors. Only we have been adding them up all wrong. The adage that "hard work never killed anybody" is about as far away from the truth as saying "skinny is healthy." It might be if you analysed what you ate with a high enough level of nutritional knowledge. But; it must suit your body type; your muscles must be able to operate your frame as comfortably as possible for the optimum health. And the less you eat, the more you need to know WHAT to eat, and to be able to afford it also. Here is another thought: if Vitmins (as well as being cheaper than their respective concomitant source foods) use less "processing cycles" to extract the requiscient nutrients, then will they not "age" your stomach far less than eating massive amounts of vegetables (given they can provide what they claim)? Perhaps. Britain's oldest man at 108 was asked the secret. He said he ate a cooked breakfast every day, and NEVER ate salad. Now; this is undoubtedly unprofitable for some, but this notion of reduction of digestive aging was proposed as one possible explanation of his success. Another was that either he and/or his body was HAPPY with eating this food, and a happy body is a healthy body, and a happy man is one who's got something to look forward to giving him the will to live. Doubtless someone will rob all this information now and claim it to be all new and fad like. I don't care just so long as people grasp the fundamentals of the truth. Telomere replacement therapy will replace statins as the next big age prolonging thing I predict...

Answer 3

2 long term affects of physical inactivity would be, 1. getting overweight. And 2. poor circulation throughout the body.

Answer 4

increases the ability to think fast and well