By Investopedia Staff AAA |. A: The gross domestic product (GDP) is one of the primary indicators used to gauge the health of a country's economy. It represents the total dollar value of all goods and services produced over a specific time period; you can think of it as the size of the economy.
List one physical one mental and emotional and one social benefit of physical activity? Physical: Exercise causes the heart muscle to grow (left ventricle hypertophy) and the volume of the heart to increase (more blood can be pumped around the body in each contraâ¦ction).
1 For additional and more extensive health benefits, adults should increase their aerobic physical activity to 300 minutes (5 hours) a week of moderate intensity, or 150 minutes a week of vigorous intensity aerobic physical activity, or an equivalent combination of moderate-and vigorous-intensity activity. For most health outcomes, additional benefits occur as the amount of physical activity increases through higher intensity, greater frequency, and/or longer duration. 2  Most health benefits occur with at least 150 minutes (2 hours and 30 minutes) a week of moderate intensity physical activity, such as brisk walking.