[Grammar] Parallel structure(Regular physical activity helps to not only control your weight)

[ambitious-girl]

Do this sentence use the parallel structure correctly?

Regular physical activity helps to not only control your weight but (also) take your mind off work and any worries.

And, is not the sentence bellow parallel?
Regular physical activity not only helps to control your weight but it (also) take your mind off work and any worries.

 

[emsr2d2]

The second is grammatically incorrect because the second half uses "it also take". That's not the correct verb form.

 

[ambitious-girl]

The second is grammatically incorrect because the second half uses "it also take". That's not the correct verb form.

So the first one is correct. I also have made change as follow:
Regular physical activity not only helps to control your weight but it (also) takes your mind off work and any worries.

 

[teechar]

That's better.