Exercise, Onegai!

The Danger of Not Exercising

Some researchers said that lack of exercise ‘twice as deadly’ as obesity (Medical News Today, 05/01/15) and lack of exercise as ‘deadly’ as smoking (National Health Service, 18/07/2015). A report, published in the Lancet to coincide with the build-up to the Olympics, estimates that about a third of teenagers are not doing enough physical activity, causing 5.3m deaths a year. The researchers considered survey results from 1,743 participants from 1988 through 1994 and from approximately 500 participants each year from 1995 through 2010. Survey participants recorded the frequency, duration and intensity of their exercise within the previous month, and then justify their health through the school attendances, and later again after another 5 years. Students who exercises regularly has their full attendances while many of the ones with incomplete attendances said they do not exercise. In fact, lack of exercise can results in severe health issues, such as muscle atrophy, cardiac decline, increased visceral fat, and colorectal cancer (Lack of Exercise, not Diet, Linked to Rise in Obesity, Stanford Research Shows; 7/07/2014 Stanford Medical News).

Therefore, exercising is crucial for school students as not only for effective curriculum utilization, but also for the long term health welfare for jobs or daily activities.

Solutions

A.      Poster Design

My initial idea for the poster was to connecting art with health. So I started with the thought that cultivating a healthy life style resembles the making of a piece of art. The outcome can be a good or bad depending on the skill of the artist in using the appropriate materials, orchestrating an array of different components from layout to the use of colors, as exercising to achieve a healthy body.

Easel and shoe to represent ‘masterpiece’ through exercising, which is health.

I then colored the background with the typical Singapore’s track and field and blue sky seen in schools  to give impression and convince students that exercising grants a big beautiful masterpiece, i.e. health, and that physical lessons and passing sport sweaty tests should not be reasons for exercising. Thus, students will feel encouraged to exercise 

Bibliography

1.       Trigger, N. (n.d.). Inactivity 'killing as many as smoking' Retrieved from http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-politics-18876880

2.       Bach, B. (2014, July 7). Lack of exercise, not diet, linked to rise in obesity, Stanford research shows. Retrieved from https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2014/07/lack-of-exercise--not-diet--linked-to-rise-in-obesity--stanford-.html