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What are the potential benefits of regular exercise and what can be done to encourage more people to undertake it? What are the hazards of exercise and what can be done to avoid them ?
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PSY 3820 - Health Psychology What are the potential benefits of regular exercise and what can be done to encourage more people to undertake it? What are the hazards of exercise and what can be done to avoid them ? Student Number - 2117411 Tutor - Brian Evans Date of Submission - 6/5/05 Ancient man has evolved as a hunter-gatherer. In other words, his metabolism is designed to allow for a physically active mode of existence and to obtain nutrition and sustenance from a mainly vegetarian diet. Hunting animals required a certain degree of social organisation, together with the necessary weapons, and living was generally quite dangerous. Both hunting and gathering demanded a certain level of physical activity and so, mans survival depended so much on his remaining mobile, that a broken limb could well have had catastrophic consequences. Exercise was not, therefore, a question of choice, but a necessity to survive (1). In...
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