You don’t have to be a runner or someone who is involved in other sports to enjoy the benefits of exercise – starting to walk every day is enough, as a study done in the UK shows.
Studies have found that if a person walks for at least 11 minutes every day, it can reduce the risk of premature death by one in 10 people.
Most people are not able to exercise every week for the recommended 150 minutes.
But it is better to say that a person moves his body than to say that he does nothing, say the researchers from the University of Cambridge.
The British Health Commission, NHS recommends that each person should exercise for 150 to 300 minutes.
Which she says will increase heart health every week.
Or exercise vigorously for 75 to 150 minutes per week, which increases heart health by improving breathing.
The research team looked at previous studies on the benefits of exercise.
Based on this research, she concluded that doing half of what is recommended, can protect one person in twenty from heart disease and almost one person in 30 from cancer.
That equates to 75 minutes per week – or 11 minutes per day – of cycling, brisk walking, hiking, dancing or playing tennis.”
Dr Soren Brage, who led the research, said “you should feel your body moving, your heart beating fast but not necessarily feeling your breath take.”
Doing so is equivalent to reducing the risk of heart attack and stroke by 17 percent and cancer by seven percent, according to the study.
Regular exercise reduces body fat and increases blood flow while improving long-term physical, mental and sleep health.
The benefit of exercise is more for some types of cancer such as head and neck and stomach and the one that causes low blood (leukemia) but the benefit of exercise is not much for the disease that affects the lung, liver and breast cancer.
Not everyone is getting enough of the NHS recommended exercise – two out of three people say they exercise for less than 150 minutes (two and a half hours).
“If you’re someone who finds 150 minutes of exercise per week too difficult, then our findings will be good news,” said Dr Brage.
“And if you think you can do 75 minutes while exercising, then you can look at the possibility of extending the time slowly until you do the recommended number of minutes.”
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One of the suggestions is to come to work or shops by bike instead of by car.
The study, published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, looked at other published studies on the benefits of exercise in about 100 major studies and about 200 peer-reviewed studies to clarify the evidence.
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