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Train regularly, play sports or physical activity helps to maintain health and prevent disease, but also has other benefits ranging from weight control, to improvements in self-esteem through the flexibility, strength and relaxation .
Check out this short list of benefits that provides sport and get additional reasons to keep training.
1. A slimmer body
If you stay physically active will beeasier to lose weight and keep it off. Physical activity is the key to a healthy weight.
2. An active lifestyle protects health
Reduces the risk of heart disease, high blood pressure, elevated blood cholesterol and some cancers, are greatly reduced if you spend thirty minutes per day of physical activity, four or more times a week.
3. Stronger bones
This reduces the risk of fractures andultimately lowers the risk of osteoporosis.
4. Stronger muscles
Strength activities such as lifting weights or using machines at least twice a week, help develop and strengthen the heart muscle.
5. More resistance
When you have a good physical condition, fatigue is less and also have more energy throughout the day.
6. Improved mood and sense of well being
Many athletes describe feelings of joy anda better mood when they exercise regularly.
7. Reduces stress and improves sleep
Allows greater relaxation and less stress which helps you sleep better.
8. Better coordination and flexibility
The body moves with more elasticity allowing a broader level of stretching or elongation.
9. Protection from possible injury
When you have more muscle mass and bone density are less likely to sufferinjuries from falls, bumps, etc.
10. Feeling youth
With more energy, vitality and control over movements and actions permante usually has a sense of vitality and youth of both.
Visto en: De la A a la Z, todo sobre la dieta. Dr. Alberto Cormillot

The practice of sport is good for most people and in the case of adolescents, even more. Not only help the development of your body that is soimportant at this stage, but also will prevent very harmful habits such as consumption of snuff, alcohol or drugs.
But besides these undeniable physical benefits, sport has even more advantages for adolescents in their process of personal maturation. In that period is adolescence complex can not be easy for parents to get their teen resume the sport or not start if children have been devoted to it, butthe benefits can be enormous. So some advice for parents of teens is that you mark as priority in getting their children will spend a few hours a week to the sport.
Benefits for character building
The practice of any sport consistently helps teens learn the importance of discipline, perseverance and effort. Also promotes competitiveness if it develops in moderation can be very beneficial in yourlife. Boys and girls learn to enjoy the victories and defeats to become strong.
For team sports also extends the amount of benefits for children. They learn the importance of others as you develop your sociability, understand the importance of respect for authority, the need to follow the rules and respect the importance of the rivals.

Although the positive effects of sport and physicalactivity have been known for long time, their application to promote sexual and reproductive health (SRH) of adolescents is still limited. Apart from the direct impact it has on the body (strengthening the cardiovascular system, increased muscle mass, improved physical condition), sport helps build a positive relationship with one's body and allows live experiences of solidarity and trust , in turn,promote the formation of an identity (gender specific).

Sport and physical recreation provide an appropriate framework and agreed to raise young people the subject of his propioscuerpos and anatomy, and nutrition issues and sexuality. Sport plays a special role for youth SRH because it points directly to them and is linked to the world in which they live. Health issues and SSR are usually...