15 minutes of fitness a day can add 3 years to your life

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I heard this on the BBC Today program on Radio 4, and saw a link on MSNBC too.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44153048/ns/health-fitness/

An excerpt of the piece:

The first 15 minutes ... the benefits are enormous," Wen said.

Daily exercise was also linked to a lower incidence of cancer, and appeared to reduce cancer-related deaths in one person in ten.

"Sooner or later, you are going to die. But compared to the inactive group, the low exercise group has a reduction of 10 percent in cancer mortality," Wen said.

Wen said the Taiwan findings were consistent with similar studies in the past using Caucasian participants, but his team was the first to come up with the minimum level of exercise necessary.

"None of the other papers were able to conclude ... what specific amount of exercise would be enough. Ours is the first one to say that 15 minutes would be enough," he said.

"We hope this will make it more attractive for inactive people, that they can allocate 15 minutes a day, rather than 30, which is more difficult."

So let's get to it! Just 15 minutes a day - surely we can all manage that!