REAL LIFE NEWS: SEE, I TOLD YOU EXERCISE WAS GOOD FOR YOU!
by Hazed
Bad news for couch potatoes like me. A new study shows that regular exercise in old age has just as powerful an effect on life expectancy as giving up smoking.
The study, conducted by Oslo University Hospital, Norway, analysed 5,700 elderly men, and it showed that those doing three hours of exercise a week lived around five years longer than sedentary men.
Researchers found that doing less than an hour a week of light exercise had no impact, but those who did the equivalent of six 30-minute sessions each week, no matter the intensity of the exercise, were 40% less likely to have died during the 11-year study.
Sigh. I guess I need to get up from the computer and start exercising a bit more often!
