{"id":2945,"date":"2024-07-09T23:42:49","date_gmt":"2024-07-09T23:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/sports-can-be-good-for-mental-health\/"},"modified":"2024-07-09T23:42:49","modified_gmt":"2024-07-09T23:42:49","slug":"sports-can-be-good-for-mental-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/sports-can-be-good-for-mental-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Sports can be good for mental health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the Olympics kick off in Paris later this month, 84% of Americans who participate in sports\u2014whether on a competitive or recreational level\u2014say it benefits their mental health, according to a new poll. A majority (57%) of American adults say they participate in sports, with men (67%) more likely than women (48%), and non-white individuals (69%) more likely than white (non-Hispanic) individuals (50%) to say so. Three in four (73%) American adults also say that sports are very or somewhat beneficial for children and teenagers&#8217; mental health. When those who <a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/sports-can-be-good-for-mental-health\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the Olympics kick off in Paris later this month, 84% of Americans who participate in sports\u2014whether on a competitive or recreational level\u2014say it benefits their mental health, according to a new poll. A majority (57%) of American adults say they participate in sports, with men (67%) more likely than women (48%), and non-white individuals [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}