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What evidence is there to support the idea that exercise can add ‘Life to years’ (Department of health, 1993) by improving the quality of life?
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What evidence is there to support the idea that exercise can add 'Life to years' (Department of health, 1993) by improving the quality of life? 'Quality of life' is a subjective well being of an individual. When an individual has high levels of life satisfaction, an absence of a negative affect such as depression or bad mood, and a presence of a positive affect such as a happy home life or work place then they are said to have quality of life. It has also been stated by Cambell, Converse and Rogers in 1976 "Quality of life emphasises subjective experience of your perceptions and needs of the spirit, rather than objective conditions of life and affluence". It has been discovered through some research that exercise improves quality of life. It is a proven fact that exercise directly influences health on a physiological basis, whereas there is some dispute whether there is...
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