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The two public universities in Murcia have co-directed, in the context of the Campus of International Excellence Mare Nostrum, a doctoral thesis on promoting active aging which has confirmed the positive influence of physical activity and sport in welfare higher.
The investigation of Ricardo Ibanez Perez, head of Sports Promotion of the Polytechnic University of Cartagena (UPCT), led by the Dean of the Faculty of Sport, University of Murcia (UMU), Arturo Diaz Suarez Sciences, and the Vice Chancellor for Student UPCT, Francisco Martinez, including a pioneering users of physical activities organized by the Instituto Murciano Social Action (IMAS) questionnaire.
More than 1,500 people, 41% of users have participated in this study, which concludes that healthy sporting habits improve "the perception of self-esteem and body image of older," notes Ibanez.
"It also helps them to feel that their health and welfare is best," he adds.
"With the aging and less activity, physical capabilities and skills that can be regulated with the sport are lost," says the head of Sports Promotion in Cartagena Polytechnic, the University of Elders includes physical maintenance activities, chi kung and taichi- chuan for their students.
"Investing in physical activities for adults as a preventive health avoid saturation" values ​​Francisco Martinez, professor of Applied Mathematics.
"This thesis combines the knowledge of the department of Physical Activity and Sport UMU with the experience of our Senior University, which is the cultural project of greater impact in Cartagena, with 800 users each year," says the rector.
Source: UPCT
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