Three Minutes Of Exercise Daily Reduces Risk Of Premature Death By 40%: Study
A new media research data shows that one doesn't need to exercise for long periods of time to reap the health benefits of exercise. The research said that even short bursts of exercise of as little as three or four minutes throughout the day significantly reduces the risk of premature death in people who did not exercise at all.
The media study took 25,241 participants from the UK Biobank study. They told that they do not do physical exercise or walk more than once a week. About 56 per cent of the participants were women, with an average age of about 62 years.
Surprisingly, even though the participants did not report any regular exercise. But about 89 per cent of the people were recorded doing intermittent physical exercise on the tracker.
It is a physical activity that usually lasts for less than a minute and is usually a part of our daily lives. Some examples of this type of physical activity include playing with children and pets, shopping, walking briskly uphill, or running to catch a train.
On average, all participants recorded eight daily bouts of moderate exercise. These exercises were of four and a half minutes in total. It was found that just three to four minutes of moderate exercise every day can reduce premature death from any cause by up to 40 per cent. Plus, it can reduce the risk of death from heart disease by 49 per cent.
