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WHY PHYSICAL
ACTIVITY IS IMPORTANT FOR YOU
People need
to be active to be healthy. Our modern lifestyle and all the conveniences we've
become used to have made us sedentary - and that's dangerous for our health.
Sitting around in front of the TV or the computer, riding in the car for even a
short trip to the store and using elevators instead of stairs or ramps all
contribute to our inactivity. Physical inactivity is as dangerous to our health
as smoking!
Add up your
activities during the day in periods of at least 10 minutes each. Start slowly...and
build up. If you're already doing some light activities move up to more
moderate ones. A little is good, but more is better if you want to achieve health
benefits.
Scientists
say accumulate 60 minutes of physical activity every day to stay healthy or improve
your health. Time needed depends on effort - as you progress to moderate activities,
you can cut down to thirty minutes, four days a week.
Physical
activity doesn't have to be very hard to improve your health. This goal can be reached
by building physical activities into your daily routine. Just add up in periods
of at least ten minutes each throughout the day. After three months of regular
physical activity,you will notice a difference - people often say getting
started is the hardest part.
(From Handbook for Canada's Physical
Activity Guide to Healthy Active Living p. 4. Canadian Society for Exercise
Physiology, Ottawa, Ontario, 1998)
Vocabulary list
- · Sedentary : menetap
- · Ramps : jalan landai
- · Contribute : menyumbang
- · Moderate : layak
- · Move up : berpindah
- · Accumulate : mengumpulkan
- · Effort : usaha, upaya
- · Routine : rutin
Exercise :
I. Answer the following questions
using your own words
a.
Why is physical activity so important for people?
b.
How can you include physical activity in your life?
II. Are the following statements
true (T) or false (F)?
a.
Smoking is
less dangerous than physical inactivity.
b.
You do not need more than sixty minutes a day
to be fit.
III. Find a word or phrase in the
text which, in context, is similar in meaning
To
a.
Inactive
b.
Fit
IV. Choose a, b, or c, in each
question below. Only one choice is correct .
1.
Nowadays
people ...
a.
are
less active than in the past.
b.
are
more active than in the past.
c.
are
as sedentary as they used to be.
2.
Time needed
for physical activity depends on ...
a.
Health
b.
Effort
c.
money
3.
You can
improve your health ...
a.
integrating
physical activity into your timetable.
b.
eating
less and less during short periods of time.
c.
relaxing
and keeping cool.
4.
People say
that ...
a.
they
do not have time for physical activity.
b.
getting
into physical activity is the most difficult part.
c.
getting
into physical activity is not so difficult.
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