Those with sedentary lifestyle 500% more likely to die as compared to those who exercise
Exercise has umpteen benefits for your health, weight loss and even your skin. It can keep your heart healthy and protect you from so many diseases. But a new research tells us just how important exercise is for your health. Researchers and author of the study published in the journal JAMA Network Open say that a sedentary lifestyle is worse for health than smoking, diabetes and heart disease. This simply means that ‘being unfit on a treadmill or in an exercise stress test has a worse prognosis, as far as death, than being hypertensive, being diabetic or being a current smoker,’ according to Wael Jaber, senior author of the study. Simply put, you can just keep away from smoking and other vices to be healthy, you’ve actually got to pick up your gym shoes and head to your workout sessions!
The research studied 122,007 patients who underwent exercise treadmill testing to measure all-cause mortality relating to the benefits of exercise and fitness. Those with the lowest exercise rate accounted for 12% of the participants. A big take away from the research is that fitness leads to a longer life. It also reveals that ‘ultra exercisers,’ popularly believed to have been are at a higher risk of death, are actually not and that the ultra-fit still have lower mortality.
When it comes to the benefits of exercise, your age and gender also apparently don’t matter. However, it is ‘probably a little more pronounced in females,’ Jaber said. The risks, he said, became more shocking when comparing those who don’t exercise much.
Comparing those with a sedentary lifestyle to the top exercise performers, the risk associated with death is 500% higher and comparing somebody who doesn’t exercise much to somebody who exercises regularly showed a risk 390% higher.
29.10.2018
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