Health Info : Exercise helps you cope with stress, anxiety

Moderate exercise not only keeps one fit
and healthy but also helps him or her to cope with anxiety and stress, suggests a new study.

"While it is well-known that exercise improves mood, not as much is known about the potency of exercise's impact on the emotional state," explains J. Carson Smith, assistant professor of Kinesiology, University of Maryland School of Public Health, who led the study.

"We found that exercise helps to buffer the
effects of emotional exposure. If you exercise, you'll not only reduce your anxiety, but you'll be better able to maintain that reduced anxiety when confronted with emotional events," said Smith, the journal Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise reports.

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