Interrelationship between Exercise and Diseases in young people: Review study

Abstract

Introduction: Regular physical activity is associated with physical, and mental benefits, whilst insufficient physical activity (PA) is associated with number of negative health outcomes (e.g. metabolic syndrome, brain health, cognitive functions, insulin resistance, prediabetes, type 2 diabetes, sarcopenia, coronary heart disease etc.). In our systematic overview, we look into relationship between participation on regular PA and health of young people. Material and methods: Electronic databases were searched for articles related to connection between PA and correlated diseases in young man. Results: The search resulted in 137 identified records of which 54 records articles were included in the presented review. Conclusions: Based on our findings, we recognize that human body rapidly maladapts to insufficient PA, and if extended for a longer period of time, it will result in substantial decline of health. Altogether, conclusive evidence exists that physical inactivity is one of the most important cause of most chronic diseases. In addition, PA especially in younger age can primarily prevents, or delays chronic diseases, assuming that chronic diseases may not be an inevitable outcome throughout life. Our review suggests that PA exert substantial positive effect on health of young men, however, to reach a true consensus, the mechanism behind these observations must be further elucidated.

Keywords

• physical activity
• quality of life
• mental health
• fitness
• young people