A new study looking at the relationship between physical exercise and prevention of cardiovascular disease and death in people aged 65 and older has provided much needed evidence that even a small amount of exercise can protect against death.
Like eating a diverse healthy diet (no, stay with me here!), it’s no secret that physical exercise is good for us. For everything from preventing or managing a range of health problems and diseases – think, stroke, type 2 diabetes, depression, certain types of cancer, arthritis, reduced bone density, muscle strength and falls – to helping you get more sleep, have better social interactions and even more and better sex, exercise is key.
But less well understood are questions relating to the dose and type of exercise. How much exercise is ‘enough’ to get the health benefits? Are all forms of exercise created equal? And more importantly, how much of which types of exercise is enough for that murkily defined group known as ‘older people’?
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