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Leisure
Various forms of leisure activities are strongly associated with physical and mental health benefits — go for a walk outside
- Pressman et al. 10
- Leisure activities are an important contribution to wellbeing.
- These positive effects include:
- lower blood pressure
- lower total cortisol
- shorter waist circumference
- lower body mass index
- better perceptions of better physical function
- “Enjoyable leisure activities, taken in the aggregate, are associated with psychosocial and physical measures relevant for health and well-being.”