{"id":1155,"date":"2019-08-22T06:42:40","date_gmt":"2019-08-22T06:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/?p=1155"},"modified":"2019-09-02T06:45:53","modified_gmt":"2019-09-02T06:45:53","slug":"even-a-little-exercise-means-a-lot-for-life-span","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/?p=1155","title":{"rendered":"Even a Little Exercise Means a Lot for Life Span"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>THURSDAY, Aug. 22, 2019 (HealthDay News) &#8212; Exercise, even a little of it, can lengthen your life, a new study suggests.<\/p>\n<p>The Norwegian researchers also found that too much sitting was associated with a higher risk of early death.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Developing ways to limit sedentary time and increase activity at any level could considerably improve health and reduce mortality,&#8221; the study authors concluded.<\/p>\n<p>In the study, the team analyzed data from eight studies that included more than 36,000 adults, aged 40 and older, who were followed for an average of almost six years.<\/p>\n<p>A similarly steep decline in death rates was associated with increasing amounts of light physical activity up to about 300 minutes (5 hours) a day, and moderate-intensity physical activity of about 24 minutes per day.<\/p>\n<p>The largest difference in early death risk (about 60% to 70%) was between the least and most physically active, with about five times more deaths among inactive people than among those who were most active, according to the report.<\/p>\n<p>The report was published Aug. 21 in the BMJ.<\/p>\n<p>The findings add to evidence that any amount of physical activity &#8212; whether light, moderate or high-intensity &#8212; is beneficial and likely achievable for many people, according to Ulf Ekelund, a professor at the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences in Oslo, and colleagues.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.webmd.com\/fitness-exercise\/news\/20190822\/even-a-little-exercise-means-a-lot-for-life-span\">WebMD<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THURSDAY, Aug. 22, 2019 (HealthDay News) &#8212; Exercise, even a little of it, can lengthen your life, a new study&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5],"tags":[13,14],"class_list":["post-1155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","category-exercise","tag-articles","tag-exercise"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1157,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155\/revisions\/1157"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}