""The most important is health"". How often people hear this phrase. The healthy lifestyle helps to keep and strengthen it. Nevertheless, smoking, alcohol are the part of everyday life. They do especially serious harm to the young, formed organism. The sport can become the alternative to addictions.
The people who are regularly playing sports are more successful in the career, are less subject to diseases, stresses and depressions, live longer and are perceived by people as happier. Moderate exercise stresses temper the body and help to keep health. children grow in families where parents lead the healthy lifestyle active, willingly are engaged in various sections, communicate with the safe environment. The sport as the alternative to addictions is especially effective at children's and teenage age. If to understand, then the teenager's environment, desire to look abrupt, not to be allocated from the company, to get respect of peers becomes the cause of addictions at early age most often. The disorder of leisure of the school student, high psychological loading and aspiration to self-affirmation can become the reason of early smoking, alcohol intake and drugs. The sport can initially eliminate negative factors of development of the child. Active occupation in sports circles fills free leisure, without leaving time for communication with domestic youth. Victories and sporting achievements form the healthy self-assessment, allowing to realize themselves and to get respect of peers. The correct circle of contacts will initially form negative attitude to addictions, imparting love for active and to the healthy lifestyle. In the case with teenagers the sport as the alternative to addictions, acts as prevention of the disease. Even if the person is already subject to harmful influence of alcohol, smoking or drugs, then the sport will be able to help it with the aspiration to get rid of them. Regular physical exercises in some way will help to correct the harm done to health. Sports are good psychological unweighting, replacing with that similar action of smoking and alcohol intake. Gradual change of the circle of contacts will lower number of the irritating factors preventing to get rid of addictions. The sport can only help the adult with its aspiration to change the lifestyle. As medicine it will work only in addition to will power of the person.