We already know the facts: The world
is in the midst of an obesity epidemic Zimbabweans included. Take a walk along
First Street in Harare on any day and you will shocked at the rate at the
number of women who without you being a doctor, can immediately observe to be
medically overweight.
Of course men are included too but
perhaps what has made women worse is the use of various chemicals for enhancing
the physical structures particularly the bottom half.
Few Zimbabwean adults exercise
enough, and that poor lifestyle choice is getting handed down to the children,
who are also getting fat and overweight at record levels. Unless of course you
are part of the uniformed forces!
And all that obesity is affecting
health, causing heart disease, diabetes, unexplained sudden rise in cancer
cases and other untold other health consequences. But what if the effects
aren’t only physical?
This new infographic which Bullish
Thoughts came across and felt it warranted your attention, points out that
exercise has some great benefits for not just how our body works, but how our
brains work, too. It’s clearly important for kids, who need all the brain power
they can get for school, but it’s equally important for adults: A fit worker is a fast, efficient worker.
First, let’s review the facts.
Children--who should be buzzing about with so much energy that we have to ask
them not to exercise--aren’t moving around that much anymore.
Ironically, part of the problem is
the diminished role of physical education (P.E) in many public schools.
Bullish Thoughts remembers very well
how P.E was part of the primary education curricular back then in rural Chivhu.
In fact, P.E was so important that there were competitions for various related
P.E displays.
Nowadays, stats indicate that only
one in four children get 30 minutes of daily exercise, and by the time they’re
teenagers, only 12% are getting their daily recommended amount of physical
activity.
So what? Bill Gates probably spent
more time tinkering with computers than he did on the basketball court, and he
turned out fine. But not all of us are Bill Gates. In fact, only one of us is.
Most of us could probably use a little brain boost, and it turns out that
exercise does just that. In studies of students, vigorous exercise was shown to
improve IQ scores by 3.8 points--and test scores, too.
This applies to adults, as well.
Exercise improves memory, releases brain-derived neurotrophic factor (a protein
that makes your neurons healthier), and has been shown to potentially increase
the size of your hippocampus--the part of the brain responsible for memory and
spatial recognition. It’s no surprise, then, that college students who work out
before class do better on tests, and workers who work out are more efficient.
The lesson? If your employees want
to take a longer lunch break to hit the gym, you should let them. You’ll be
getting more than enough out of them in the afternoon to make up for the lost
time.
See the full infographic below, if
you’re not too busy at the gym:
Mr
Fund Manager….
After hitting the gym, Bullish
Thoughts bets you that Mr Fund Manager would be in the right frame of mind to
know that it’s time to take profit after the market rally, offload some ZECO & MedTech shares and appreciate that the more money you have, the
harder it becomes or risky rather, to trade penny stocks!
Or perhaps you will understand why
you missed the BAT rally and a
healthy dividend payout at the same time.
That brain surely needs financial
exercise.
Exercise
& Invest Wisely!
(Report
on fitness by OnlineCollegeCourses.com, Additional editing by Bullish Thoughts)
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