| （1.Department of Physical Education，Shanghai Jiao Tong University，Shanghai 200030，China；2.School of Physical Education，Taiyuan University of Technology，Taiyuan 030024，China) Abstract: The authors summarized the international symposium on “Physical Activity and Health during Life”, held jointly by Shanghai Jiao Tong University and China Sports Science Society. Chinese and foreign experts and scholars par-ticipating in the symposium had a heated debate about such a theme as “Is exercise a good doctor or what?”. From the perspective of humanistic sociology, some scholars put forward that exercise is not a medicine, but a way of leisure enter-tainment, which enhances people’s sense of happiness, or only the way that combines exercise and entertainment or game can more effectively promote people’s physical and psychological health. Based on the empirical study of exercise inter-vention, most exercise physiological and biological experts believed that “exercise is a good doctor”, but some scholars put forward that exercise is a double-edge sword. Finally, a consensus was reached: exercise is not just a good doctor. Exercise is not only able to enhance physical qualities, control body weight, lower the risk of chronic diseases such as cardiovascu-lar disease, promote brain development, increase body stability, maintain skeletal muscle health, but also conducive to re-lieving stress, improving working efficiency and enhancing sense of happiness, etc.
Key words: sports medicine；exercise intervention；exercise prescription；International Symposium on Physical Activity And Health in Life；summary |
