Just 15 minutes' walking per day extends life expectancy
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There are some interesting graphs in the article...
Just 15 minutes' walking per day extends life expectancy
http://www.ergo-log.com/15minuteswalking.html
""People who can't stand physical exercise could at least try to walk or cycle for a quarter of an hour a day. This minimal amount of exercise is enough to noticeably lower their mortality risk, according to researchers at the Taiwanese Institute of Population Science.
Scientists are always telling us that we should get 30 minutes of exercise every day, but the amount of people who actually have the willpower to do so are few and far between. It seems that half an hour of exercise a day is too much to expect from most mortals. So the researchers posed the question as to whether less exercise can also have a protective effect on health.
The researchers tried to answer this question in a study that involved monitoring four hundred thousand Taiwanese for eight years. The researchers divided the participants into five groups according to their exercise regimes.
Movement was converted to the equivalent of walking at a reasonable speed. This meant that the inactive-group walked for less than 15 minutes each day. The low-group walked for about 15 minutes each day, the medium-group for 30 minutes, the high-group for 60 minutes and the very-high-group for two or more hours....""
Just 15 minutes' walking per day extends life expectancy
http://www.ergo-log.com/15minuteswalking.html
""People who can't stand physical exercise could at least try to walk or cycle for a quarter of an hour a day. This minimal amount of exercise is enough to noticeably lower their mortality risk, according to researchers at the Taiwanese Institute of Population Science.
Scientists are always telling us that we should get 30 minutes of exercise every day, but the amount of people who actually have the willpower to do so are few and far between. It seems that half an hour of exercise a day is too much to expect from most mortals. So the researchers posed the question as to whether less exercise can also have a protective effect on health.
The researchers tried to answer this question in a study that involved monitoring four hundred thousand Taiwanese for eight years. The researchers divided the participants into five groups according to their exercise regimes.
Movement was converted to the equivalent of walking at a reasonable speed. This meant that the inactive-group walked for less than 15 minutes each day. The low-group walked for about 15 minutes each day, the medium-group for 30 minutes, the high-group for 60 minutes and the very-high-group for two or more hours....""
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