Importance of outdoor activity

• Outdoor physical activity improves quality of life.
• Outdoor physical activity extends longevity, protects against the development of CHD, stroke, hypertension, obesity, non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, osteoporosis, colon cancer, and depression.
• Outdoor physical activity helps maintain full functioning and independence among the elderly.
• Relationships between physical activity and improved health include:
• A reduced oxygen demand at any given level of physical activity.
• A reduced tendency for blood to form clots where arteries have narrowed.
• An increased elasticity in the arteries.
• Changes in the brain and brain chemistry that may improve mood and cognitive functioning.

Just some of the reason to get out there and Sweat in the nature.