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17/08/2011
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Exercise is good just below the recommended 30 minutes daily.
Conclusion is research that followed more than 400,000 in Taiwan.
Reuters
Doing just 15 minutes of moderate exercise a day can add three years in a person's life, a survey in Taiwan.
This represents a volume of physical activity lower than recommended, which are 30 minutes daily, five days a week. Experts expect that the lower dose will encourage more people to get off the couch.
The researcher Chi Pang Wen, National Institute of Health Research in Taiwan, said that devoting 15 minutes a day of moderate forms of exercise such as walking a faster, could benefit everyone.
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"It's for men, women, young and old, smokers, healthy people and not so healthy. Doctors, when attending any patient, this is a board that fits all," Wen told Reuters by telephone.
Wen and his colleagues, who published their findings in The Lancet on Tuesday, followed about 416 000 people for 13 years, analyzing their health histories and levels of physical activity performed each year.
After considering the differences in age, weight, sex and a number of other indicators related to health, they found that those who played only 15 minutes of moderate exercise per day increased the life expectancy of three years, compared with those who remained inactive.
"In the first 15 minutes, (...) the benefits are enormous," said Wen.
Daily exercise is also linked to a lower incidence of cancer, and appears to reduce deaths related to cancer in one out of ten people.
"Sooner or later people will die, but compared with the inactive group, the group that does a little exercise have a 10 percent reduction in cancer mortality," says Wen
Source: G1
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