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Exercising even a little can have a good impact on your health

Every little counts!

10-Sep-2019

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According to The JAMA, we don't exercise as much as we might think.

Even a small amount of exercise may have substantial health benefits compared with being sedentary.

For every additional 15 minutes of moderate-intensity exercise risk of death reduces by 4 %.

Greatest benefit got people who exercised for an average of 63 to 88 minutes a day.

Two studies were published in JAMA and JAMA Internal Medicine Journals.

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JAMA

General medical journal.

JAMA Internal Medicine

General internal medical and internal medicine subspecialities journal.

Paul Thompson

Professor of Medicine, Preventive Cardiology

Thijs Eijsvogels

Assistant Professor at Department of Physiology at Radboud University

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