Only Sports 21 Minutes Every Day, Age Can is Longer 7.2 Years

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Sports are known to have various health benefits such as improving psychological well-being and reduce the risk of death. Recent studies have shown that exercise can increase one's life expectancy by a few years.

Researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital and the National Cancer Institute conducted a study to determine the benefits of exercise for a person's survival. The results were published in the journal PLoS Medicine.

Researchers examined data from a study of 650,000 participants during the 10-year study period, to determine the relationship between the various participants weekly activity levels with risk of death. Data noted that approximately 82,000 deaths occurred during the study period.

From these data, researchers can analyze how much of the benefits of physical activity weekly to increase a person's lifespan. People who exercise for 75 minutes per week, be it moderate to heavy exercise, had a 19 percent lower risk of early death.

The researchers calculated that this is equivalent to adding a person's life expectancy by 1.8 years, compared with those who did not exercise at all.

In general, people who exercise up to 150 minutes per week, as recommended by experts, can increase life expectancy by about 3.4 years. While someone who is exercising to 450 minutes per week, increased life expectancy by about 4.5 years.

This finding applies to everyone and does not distinguish gender, body shape, or race. Both fat and thin people alike can benefit both exercise can prolong life. But the greatest advantage obtained by those who have a normal weight and active exercise.

Even more benefits are those who have a normal weight. Because the exercise about 150 minutes per week or about 21 minutes a day, can increase life expectancy by about 7.2 years, compared to obese people who are not active.

The results of this study help to ensure that the exercise is linked to life expectancy. Therefore, do not be lazy to exercise and increase the frequency of your exercise each week.

Source:  PLoS Medicine