"Exercise is good for everything from cognition and mental health benefits such as preventing neurocognitive disorders like Alzheimer's disease to cardiovascular benefits like preventing mortality from cardiovascular disease, maintaining vascular function, and improving lung strength and lung function," said Christina Dieli-Conwright, an associate professor in the Department of Nutrition at the T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
"Exercising regularly can even benefit the gastrointestinal system, like gut motility, digestion and the gut microbiome. ... Depression, anxiety, sleep, fatigue, pain - I can't think of a body system that is not benefited by exercise," she added.
"Historically speaking, the thought behind exercise and weight loss is a little bit erroneous. Exercise alone does not typically put an individual into enough of a caloric deficit to cause weight loss," she said.
"Exercise, on average, can burn from 200 to 700 calories an hour, while consuming that many calories can be done in minutes. And most of us appear to be poor at keeping track of what we're taking in vs. what we're burning."
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