Posted on 01/27/2022 2:45:26 PM PST by ConservativeMind
If everyone between 40 and 85 years of age were active just 10 minutes more a day, it could save more than 110,000 U.S. lives a year, a large study reports.
"Our projections are based on an additional 10 minutes of moderate to vigorous physical activity," said lead researcher Pedro Saint-Maurice of the Metabolic Epidemiology Branch at the U.S. National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Md. "If the walk is brisk, it counts."
And added exercise benefits everyone—white, Black, Asian and Hispanic, men and women, the investigators found.
For the study, the researchers examined data from more than 4,800 middle-aged and elderly adults who were part of a government health and nutrition study between 2003 and 2006. For seven days, participants wore monitors to record their activity. The researchers then combed nationwide death data to see how many had died by the end of 2015.
The upshot: Exercise paid off big time.
Adding 10 minutes of exercise lowered participants' risk of death over the period by 7%; 20 extra minutes reduced risk by 13%; and an extra half-hour of moderate to vigorous activity slashed the risk of death by 17%, the findings showed.
In other words, an extra 20 minutes of exercise could prevent nearly 210,000 deaths a year, and 30 more minutes could head off more than 270,000 deaths, the study authors said.
(Excerpt) Read more at medicalxpress.com ...
Here’s a good reason for people to stop hiding from the ‘rona in their houses, renew their gym memberships and keep gyms open past 8 on weekdays and 5 on weekends, as it is now.
I have chosen option B.
Live way out in the woods, heat with firewood, carry the wood into the house every day.
That plus walking the dog works great—just have to put on layers in the winter.
It’s go time!
Removing and jailing Dr Faucet would have the same results.
I guess I should step away from the computer and go vacuum. Sigh.
I think staying away from sadistic quack Doctors pushing Big Pharma drugs will save 10 times more, they don’t really have your best interest at heart anymore.
At least a couple of acres and an older dog who needs the exercise/walks is a great way to get the activity.
Option B where I live would be go out of the house, try not to get shot, hit the ground when you hear gunshots, if you run try not to get smacked by a speeding car (driver is drunk, high on drugs or has an outstanding warrant; they won’t stop if they nail you).
Your option would be great, just that I am stuck here because of child custody issues.
“And added exercise benefits everyone—white, Black, Asian and Hispanic, men and women, the investigators found.”
Sorry, I know that this is a thread about health, and that everyone’s body works pretty much the same way - meaning that more exercise is better for anyone. But I could not overlook the OVERT racism inherent in the quoted sentence.
Many seniors are taking up pickleball (tennis on a smaller court). Good exercise but not too strenuous.
Americans are too fat a lazy to move.
Please add me to your ping list.
You’re still going to die.
Just saying.
At 63 I’m still out in the field doing what I was doing at 23. Decent amount of strain and heavy breathing all day. So according to this guys numbers I should live approximately forever.
I’m not counting on it…
Good grief!
If you don’t have time (or will power) to get 10 minutes of exercise per day, where I grew up, they called you quitters.
Instead requiring stay sheltered and masking even outside for so much of the pandemic was too often the recourse. And obesity — which over 42% of Americans are — along with high blood pressure and diabetes (which tend to be related to obesity) are leading comorbidities in Covid-assigned deaths (and obesity itself is estimated to be attributable to 2,800,000 deaths in America over a 10 year period — at 280,000 per year). The CDC reported that obesity is linked to impaired immune function, and may triple the risk of hospitalization due to a COVID-19 infection, and decreases lung capacity and reserve and can make ventilation more difficult. And the increased risk for hospitalization or death was particularly pronounced in those under age 65,[9] and that about 78% of people that were hospitalized, needed a ventilator or died from Covid-19 were overweight or obese. [10]
This includes some otherwise healthy, hard-working people and even the young. Since the pandemic began dozens of studies have reported that many of the sickest COVID-19 patients have been people with obesity A study published in August 2020 reported that an international team of researchers who pooled data from scores of peer-reviewed papers capturing 399,000 patients, found that “people with obesity who contracted SARS-CoV-2 were 113% more likely than people of healthy weight to land in the hospital, 74% more likely to be admitted to an ICU, and 48% more likely to die.” Another study found that 77% of nearly 17,000 patients hospitalized with COVID-19 were overweight (29%) or obese (48%) - and which over 40% of Americans are. [11]
Consistent with this, the majority of global COVID-19 deaths have been in countries where many people are obese, with coronavirus fatality rates 10 times higher in nations where at least 50% of adults are overweight,” and “that 90% or 2.2 million of the 2.5 million deaths from the pandemic disease so far were in countries with high levels of obesity.[12] “The report found that every country where less than 40% of the population was overweight had a low Covid-19 death rate of no more than 10 people per 100,000.” “Age is the predominant factor affecting risk of hospitalisation and death from Covid-19, but the report finds that being overweight comes a close second.” [13] cf. [14] [15]
In addition, more recent research has reported that fat cells can act as a reservoir for RNA viruses like influenza A and HIV, providing an additional site for the virus to replicate. TOC^
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