{"id":3194,"date":"2014-10-08T00:06:59","date_gmt":"2014-10-08T05:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=3194"},"modified":"2014-10-08T00:06:59","modified_gmt":"2014-10-08T05:06:59","slug":"need-a-stress-buster-try-exercise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/need-a-stress-buster-try-exercise\/","title":{"rendered":"Need a stress-buster? Try exercise<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\" alt=\"SMCC-english2\" width=\"255\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Exercise has a proven track record for relieving stress, yet less than half of Canadians use it this way, according to a recent study. A survey of 40,000 Canadians 15 or older found that exercise ranked 8th out of 13 coping strategies, below \u201ctalking to others\u201d, \u201clooking on the bright side\u201d, \u201cignoring stress\u201d and even \u201cblaming oneself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The researchers found that those who did use exercise to cope with stress tended to be younger, unmarried and of higher socioeconomic status, and were less likely to smoke or use alcohol. They suggest that picking up exercise as a means of coping with stress, especially among groups currently not getting enough activity, could have positive mental benefits as well as physical ones.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/journals.humankinetics.com\/jpah-current-issue\/jpah-volume-11-issue-5-july\/who-uses-exercise-as-a-coping-strategy-for-stress-results-from-a-national-survey-of-canadians\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in the\u00a0<em>Journal of Physical Activity and Health <\/em>in\u00a0<strong>July\u00a02014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4>John Cairney, McMaster University, Ontario<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exercise has a proven track record for relieving stress, yet less than half of Canadians use it this way, according to a recent study. A survey of 40,000 Canadians 15 or older found that exercise ranked 8th out of 13 coping strategies, below \u201ctalking to others\u201d, \u201clooking on the bright side\u201d, \u201cignoring stress\u201d and even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[51,53,1000,50,476,2192],"class_list":["post-3194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-health","tag-medicine","tag-mental-health","tag-ontario","tag-public-health","tag-stress-en"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-Pw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3197,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3194\/revisions\/3197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}