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Sunday 9 August 2015

An Obesity And A Little Exercise

An Obesity And A Little Exercise.
Being desk-bound may be twice as murderous as being obese, a new study suggests. However, even a little exercise - a fresh 20-minute walk each day, for example - is enough to reduce the risk of an early death by as much as 30 percent, the British researchers added. "Efforts to pep up small increases in physical liveliness in inactive individuals likely have significant health benefits," said lead author Ulf Ekelund, a ranking investigator scientist in the Medical Research Council Epidemiology Unit at the University of Cambridge. The chance reduction was seen in normal weight, overweight and obese people.

And "We estimated that eradicating mortal inactivity in the population would reduce the number of deaths twice as much as if obesity was eradicated. From a patent health perspective, it is as important to increase levels of physical activity as it is to up the levels of obesity - maybe even more so. The report was published Jan 14, 2015 in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. "The implication from this study is clear and dumb - for any given body weight, going from inactive to active can substantially reduce the risk of premature death," said Dr David Katz, administrator of the Yale University Prevention Research Center.

The cram is a reminder that being both fit and lean are good for health. "These are not really disparate challenges, since the corporal activity that leads to fitness is also a way of avoiding fatness". For the study, Ekelund and his colleagues unperturbed data from 334000 men and women. Over an average of 12 years of follow-up, they clockwork height, weight, waist circumference and self-reported levels of physical activity.