NEVER TOO LATE FOR EXERCISE BENEFIT!
NEVER TOO LATE FOR EXERCISE BENEFIT!
Check out this article in Healio about the health benefits of exercise and the fact that the benefit remains
even if you start later in life and even if you aren’t working out at “high intensity”.
“It’s never too late to start exercising to have a significant profit from it,” Nikolaos Perakakis, MD,
PhD, instructor in medicine in the endocrine division at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard
Medical School, said during a presentation.
“Previous research has demonstrated that risk for all-cause mortality, cancer mortality and cardiovascular
mortality can be cut by 40% to 60% by incorporating a daily routine of 30 minutes of physical activity, he
said.In a recent systematic review and meta-analysis published in Metabolism, van Namen and colleagues reported
that a supervised lifestyle intervention incorporating regular exercise and diet change reduced the prevalence
of metabolic syndrome by 39%…Perakakis also rejected the notion that exercise is beneficial only if started at a younger age and maintained
into later life, or if workouts are particularly grueling.In a study published in BMJ in 2019, participants (mean age, 58 years) who had very little history of physical
activity and increased their amount of exercise to an average of 6.4 kJ/kg per day — in line with WHO
recommendations [150 minutes across 3 days or more each week] — experienced a 24% reduction in all-
cause mortality during follow-up.Perakakis also said it is more important to reach the WHO recommendation for physical activity, which calls
for 150 minutes across 3 days or more each week, than it is to work out at “high intensity.””
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