"LIVE WELL"
Why exercise are important? And how it affect your future?
It will make you healthy. If we want to control our weight, lower our stress, stay strong, increase our energy levels, reduce the risk of heart disease and cancer, and generally live longer, then exercise is the answer.
Everyone understands implicitly that regular exercise is good for our health. It helps us lose weight, reduces the risks of diseases like heart disease and can even improve mood.
But exercise also has effects on our bodies at the molecular level that may offer insights about how to prevent or recover from many serious health issues. Doctors also want to know how to use exercise in conjunction with medicines and other lifestyle factors to improve health, which could be especially important for children.
Researchers are increasingly looking at how exercise and fitness in children could have lasting implications for their health as they grow and age. PERC is the only center in the program that will have pediatric participants. The children, ages 11 to 17, will be recruited from schools around Orange County in collaboration with the Orange County Department of Education. Once the study begins, participants will be split into two groups, doing either resistance training or aerobic training in the centers’ human performance laboratories. Tissue samples from participants will be sent for analysis to a single laboratory shared by all seven centers.
Studying the molecular changes triggered by exercise in healthy people will create a basis for future research. For example, researchers may learn how exercise affects the immune system.
