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Activity increases healthspan in older adults

150 minutes of walking per week can add 10 years to your life

23-Jul-2018

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1,500 Australians aged over 50 followed for 10 years.

People with the highest activity levels still in optimal physical and mental shape.

Half the chance of stroke, heart disease, cancer and diabetes.

Greatest reduction in those exceeding 5000 metabolic equivalent minutes each week.

Almost 10x the World Health Organization recommendation.

The study was published in the Nature Scientific Reports journal.

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Bamini Gopinath

Professor and Senior Principal Research Fellow Sensory Loss Epidemiology.

Scientific Reports

Scientific Journal providing information from all areas of the natural sciences

World Health Organization (WHO)

Specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for international public health

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