Any Level of Physical Activity Helps Prolong Life
This makes perfect sense to me...keep moving!
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Any kind of exercise will help extend your life, say researchers who used a sophisticated test to arrive at that conclusion.
"There are plenty of reports out there saying that self-reported exercise like running or jogging is beneficial," said lead researcher Todd M. Manini, an exercise physiologist at the U.S. National Institute on Aging. "We wanted to see if just usual daily activity had a protective value."
His team's six-year study of 302 people between 70 and 82 years of age found that any sort of energy expenditure through physical activity was associated with a lower risk of death.
That finding, published in the July 12 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, is not entirely surprising. Organizations such as the American Heart Association have long said that some physical activity is better than none. What was unusual about this study was the exquisitely detailed measurements used to determine levels of physical activity, Manini said.
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Any Level of Physical Activity Helps Prolong Life - Forbes.com
posted by BarbaraC. Phillips, NP @ 8:38 AM
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It makes sense of course that any activity will help keep patients healthy. Move it or lose it they say. The same goes for the brain. Learning new things also stimulates the brain and helps keep dementia and Alzheimer's away..
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