Physical Activity versus Extra Sleep

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Physical Activity versus Extra Sleep
Obesity and overall health can be affected by both the amount of sleep you get, and with the amount of physical activity you do. Increasing your physical activity and the intensity you perform the activity will help fight obesity and improve your overall health. When a person loses weight their overall Active Energy Expenditure (AEE) is reduced, but with a reduced body weight people tend to be more physically active which will overcome the reduced AEE (Bonomi 2013). To reduce health risks a person must do more than just sleep, or be more active. Overall health in obesity subjects also comes down to life style modification and helping them maintain proper nutrition reducing Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors (Strasser 2013). While sleep is important it has minimal effects on nutrition, and minimally effects doing more or less physical activity. Physical activity has a more powerful effect on obesity and overall health concerns.
Having more intake of energy than output will cause weight gain and obesity. With our modern lifestyle consisting of a lot of sedentary time and reduced physical activity obesity can be the result. Many factors such as weight displacement during physical activity goes into the amount of AEE (Bonomi 2013). A study of patients with a BMI > 27kg/m2 shows that after energy restriction of patients body weight was reduced by 14kg ¬± 5kg and though AEE was down after weight loss the amount of time being sedentary was reduced adding +11 ± 21 min walking, and + 4 ± minuets bicycling. (Bonomi 2013). Increasing ones physical activity levels reduces the risk of having a high blood pressure, which improves health and reduces risks associated with obesity (Strasser 2013).
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