Outdoor sports are great for kids and can help with your fitness. Regular exercise can help you build a strong heart, bones and lung function. It also helps prevent chronic diseases. Sport can help with diabetes management, weight loss, blood circulation and stress reduction. The combination of cerebral and physical development allows for the strengthening and toning of bones and muscles through sports.

Through sports, students learn how important it is to live a healthy lifestyle. Sports can help prevent obesity and promote healthy eating habits. Sports encourage young people to eat more vegetables and fruits. They are less likely than their peers to become obese, and they are more likely grow up to be active adults.

Both communicable and not-communicable disease prevention is possible through physical activity and sports. Sports are therefore costeffective strategies to improve the health of the general population in both developed and developing countries.