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What effect does table tennis have on physical and mental health?
Table tennis is the national sport of China people and a very popular ball game in the world. What are the benefits of playing table tennis to our health?

1 security

Because table tennis is opposite to the net, it is safer than physical contact sports such as football and basketball, and is suitable for middle-aged and elderly enthusiasts who like fitness.

2 keep fit

Table tennis can fully exercise the human body, so that the human respiratory system, digestive system and sports system can be fully exercised.

3 Yizhi

Table tennis can develop people's physical qualities such as speed, agility, strength, endurance and coordination, and at the same time, it can also exercise and cultivate people's good psychological qualities such as courage, tenacity, wit and decisiveness.

4 cooperation

Table tennis makes people react faster, think more keenly and act more harmoniously. Table tennis doubles can also strengthen the spirit of teamwork and cultivate a sense of tacit understanding between the two.

5 Shuxin

Playing table tennis can also adjust people's mood and make them feel happy, cheerful and generous; It can develop human brain intelligence, improve thinking ability and promote intellectual development.

6 Prevention of Alzheimer's disease

Japanese research believes that playing table tennis also has therapeutic effect on Alzheimer's disease. It is found that patients with Alzheimer's disease exercise more brain parts when playing table tennis. After playing table tennis, they will be more energetic, talk more and walk twice as fast. Therefore, Plokin, the founder of the Alzheimer's Clinic at UCLA, suggested that the elderly might as well do more activities such as riding horses, playing the piano and playing table tennis, and exercise many parts of the brain to prevent or alleviate Alzheimer's disease.