{"id":1996,"date":"2021-08-16T00:26:25","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T00:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/?p=1996"},"modified":"2021-08-16T00:26:25","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T00:26:25","slug":"exercise-regularly-for-longer-life-even-in-the-most-polluted-city-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/?p=1996","title":{"rendered":"Exercise regularly for longer life even in the most polluted city air"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Regular exercise is linked to living longer, even in cities where air pollution is high, a study suggests.<\/p>\n<p>The research, which tracked nearly 400,000 adults in Taiwan over 15 years, confirmed that higher long-term exposure to a type of pollution known as PM2.5s was linked to shorter lifespans.<\/p>\n<p>PM2.5s are particles that come mainly from motor traffic \u2014 diesel exhausts and brake pads \u2014 and wood-burning. They are less than 2.5 micrometres wide. By comparison an average human hair is 90 micrometres in diameter.<\/p>\n<p>The analysis found that people who lived in cities where the air was dirtiest and who regularly exercised had a lower risk of dying during the 15 years that they were tracked by the study.<\/p>\n<p>Continue reading at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/article\/exercise-regularly-longer-life-expectancy-air-pollution-jvmxnkp72\">The Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regular exercise is linked to living longer, even in cities where air pollution is high, a study suggests. The research,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1997,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exercise"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1996","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=1996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1998,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1996\/revisions\/1998"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}