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Want To Stay Young? Stay Active!
| Posted on Dec 27, 2011 |
One of our favorite sayings is: Exercise is the fountain of youth.
Almost always, those who successfully age are the ones that stay physically active.
A study in the cardiology journal Circulation provides further support for the importance of fitness for living a long life. Researchers looked at over 14,000 men that were on average 44 years old and followed them for 11 years. What they wanted to know was whether a change in fitness level had any relation to death rate. They also wanted to know if a change in body weight during that time was associated with death rate.
The results were very encouraging for those that stay active. If you maintain your level of fitness you have a 30% reduction in death rate. If you become more fit, your risk of death decreases by 40% compared to those who were less fit.
Although maintaining or gaining fitness did lead to a longer life in this study, weight loss or gain did not affect death rates. The reason for this finding is not clear; we know that the health benefits of maintaining a normal weight are well established. Perhaps, when it comes to longevity, being fit is more important than how much you weigh. Interestingly, large variations in weight over time (yo-yo weight loss and regain) was associated with an INCREASED death rate.
We know that staying physically active leads to a BETTER life, now we also know it leads to a LONGER life.
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