Physical activity and fitness for health and longevity.
Physical activity and fitness for health and longevity.
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身体活动和健身有利于健康和长寿。
DOI:
10.1080/02701367.1996.10608850
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发表时间:
1996
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Lee,IM
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作者:
PaffenbargerJr,RS;Lee,IM
Contemporary society finds it difficult to come to grips with the need for physical exercise. Today's interest in sports is vicarious, not participatory. We pay heed to the elite athlete who performs for us, rather than the more mundane athlete we could become. Mechanization and automation, swift communication and transport, computer usage and television viewing have abolished requirements for vigorous occupations and discouraged involvement in leisure-time recreational activity. Despite these adverse personal lifeway trends toward sedentary living, we have come to know that physical activity leads to improved physiological fitness and extends longevity, findings that should encourage us to be more rather than less active. Physical activity protects against the development of coronary heart disease (CHD)(Bouchard, Shephard, Stephens, Sutton, & McPherson, 1990; Bouchard, Shephard, & Stephens, 1994; Haskell et al., 1992), stroke (Shinton & Sager, 1993), hypertension (HTN)(Hagberg, 1990; Tipton, 1991), obesity (DiPietro, 1995; Stefanick, 1993; Wood et al., 1988; Wood, Stefanick, Williams, & Haskell, 1991), non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM)(Helmrich, Ragland, Leung, & Paffenbarger, 1991; Kriska, Blair, & Pereira, 1994; Manson et al., 1991, 1992), osteoporosis (Cummings, Kelsey, Nevitt, & O'Dowd, 1985; Snow-Harter & Marcus, 1991), some cancers (Lee, 1994; Lee & Paffenbarger, 1994; Shephard, Rhind, & Shek, 1995), and perhaps clinical depression (Dunn & Dishman, 1991; Paffenbarger, Lee, & Leung, 1994; WHO/FIMS, 1995). Along the way, physical exercise improves functional capacity and delays the infirmities and disabilities of old age. We can say with considerable certainty that postponement of chronic diseases through exercise represents cause-andeffect relations via alterations in intermediate mechanisms, not merely expressions of theory or the artifacts of statistical selection.