Not only money makes people happy, but also sports. Scientists have determined that people involved in sports are as happy as those who earn much more money, according to the German edition Focus. As part of the new study, British and American scientists, led by Dr. Samimi Chekraud of Oxford University, studied the relationship between physical activity and the mental well-being of people. During the experiment in the period from 2011 to 2015, US residents underwent a telephone survey on their physical and mental health. Participants in the experiment reported how often they had a bad mood over the past 30 days and how many times during that period they had been physically active. The scientists came to the conclusion: the real homebodies who spend their day on the couch felt mentally ill more than four days a month, while the participants of the experiment, regularly engaged in sports, were in a bad mood less than three days a month, the newspaper reports.. Those who were physically active 12-22 times a month felt better than others. The mood of those who engaged in sports daily, on the contrary, fell to zero as often as those of those who did not engage in physical activity, the article says.. The most positive impact was on people engaged in team sports, as well as cycling - those who were engaged in these sports were in a bad mood by 22% less frequently than others.

According to scientists, regular sports activities have a more pronounced relationship with mental wellbeing than the availability of higher education (in the lives of people with higher education 18% less than "bad" days) and, obviously, can even compensate for the absence of 22 thousand in wages. EURO annually. That is, people who do not engage in sports and have an annual salary higher by 22 thousand. euro, are happy just like those who earn less, but regularly engage in physical activity, sums up the publication.