Yes, You Can Exercise

Yes, You Can Exercise

Everybody knows exercise is – or would be if they did it — good for them. You may say yeah yeah yeah – but I don’t have the time. WRONG! You do. A study in the British medical Journal The Lancet proves it.

 

http://www.gpb.org/your-health-matters/yes-you-can-exercise

 

The study followed more than 400,000 people for eight plus years. They kept exercise diaries. Those who spent just 15 minutes a day in moderately intense physical activity had a 14 percent lower death rate, and an average three more years of life. That’s proof that even a little exercise is good.

 

Not surprisingly, more is better. 15 minutes a day more — a total of just half an hour — meant an additional 4 per cent decrease in deaths. But the magic minimum is just fifteen minutes a day. The sad proof of that is the control group, who did no exercise, and had a 17 per cent higher death rate.

The general recommendation for exercise is at least 150 minutes a week, just a little bit more than 20 minutes a day.  That is still 20 minutes more than a lot of people allege they have. Well kiss that excuse goodbye. 15 minutes will do you. Even a little exercise is good. More is better. But some is always better than none.