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Want to live a long life? Run
(Agencies)
Updated: 2008-08-12 16:16 "Over time, all groups decreased running activity, but the runners groups continued to accumulate more minutes per week of vigorous activity of all kinds," the researchers wrote. "Members of the running groups had significantly lower mean disability levels at all time points," they added. The team also set out to answer whether taking up running late in life would benefit, and whether people who stopped exercising began to pay a price as they aged. Most of the runners have stopped running as they reached their 70s, Fries said. But it was difficult to find people who totally stopped exercising. "Almost all of them did something else. They continued their vigorous exercise," he said. People who took up exercise when they were older also improved their health, he said. The study also showed that people cannot use the risk of injury as an excuse not to run -- the runners had fewer injuries of all kinds, including to their knees. |
