About this research area
Exercising regularly effectively improves physical and mental health of already healthy people, improves their happiness and makes them more productive.
Exercise also prevents the development of many chronic diseases. We have shown that exercise is an excellent therapeutic intervention for obesity, cardiovascular diseases, type 2 diabetes, fibromyalgia, dementia, osteoporosis, depression, as well as certain types of cancer.
In terms of efficacy, exercise can be as beneficial as the drugs prescribed for many of these diseases, such as obesity or type 2 diabetes. However, the mechanisms that may mediate these effects are not fully understood in most of the chronic non-communicable diseases.
The UCEES is working on explaining how exercise can help prevent and combat obesity and related metabolic diseases in youths as well as in adults.
This area of research combines large population-based studies at national and international levels with well-based controlled interventions in clinical trials. These intervention studies include analyses of the effect of exercise/nutrition on fitness, insulin resistance, brown adipose tissue and type 2 diabetes risk, energy balance pain in women with fibromyalgia, weight gain in pregnant women, mental health and depression, as well as risk for Alzheimer and frailty.
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