- Improves cardiovascular system
- Increases muscle tone, strength, flexibility, and endurance, resulting in improved physical appearance
- Decreases risk of developing or dying from chronic diseases and accidents
- Decreases recovery time after injury, illness, and childbirth

- Regulates and improves overall body function Helps prevent some forms of diabetes Increases the ability to cope with stress and resist depression
- Increases the energy level and job productivity and decreases absenteeism
- Delays the aging process, and decreases recovery time after injury or illness
- Improves awareness of personal needs and the ways to meet them
- Increases the ability to communicate emotions to others and to act assertively rather than aggressively or passively
- Supplies the body with proper nutrition Expands and develops intellectual abilities from a cognitive base and applies these abilities to their fullest extent in society
- Acts from an internal locus of control
- Learns to view life’s difficulties as challenges and opportunities rather than overwhelming threats
- Develops self-confidence and ability to reach out to, understand, and care about others
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