Walk an hour to reduce early death
If you can walk (or do any other physical activity) an hour daily instead of sitting you can decrease your chances of an early death by 12 to 14%, according to a new study conducted over 2,00,000 Australians.
Previous research established the benefits of adequate physical activity or sleep and the risks of too much sitting, but this is the first to look at what happens when we replace one activity with an equal amount of another,’ said lead author Emmanuel Stamatakis. ‘The results show that inactivity is an even bigger public health challenge than we initially thought,’ he said.
‘It’s also time for governments to realise that physical activity cannot be treated as the sole responsibility of individuals because we ive in a physical activity-hostile world,’ said Stamatakis.
The research team used statistical modelling of health-related data from the over 2,00,000 randomly sampled middle-aged and older people in the study conducted over a four year period.
Written by: Dr. Ajay Sati.
