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Physical Activity Can Lower Risk of Death in the Elderly

| May 15, 2015 Comment

Physical Activity Can Lower Risk of Death in the Elderly – Just 30 minutes of exercise, six days a week, is enough to reduce the risk of death among old people by as much as 40%. For the Oslo Study, launched in 1972, doctors tracked the health of 15,000 participants born between 1923 and 1932. […]

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Too Much Exercise Bad for Your Heart

| May 19, 2014 Comment

New research shows that too much exercise can be bad for your heart. Researchers in Sweden tracked the exercise patterns and their heart health of 44,000 men aged 45 to 79 for twelve years. They found that men who had exercised vigorously for more than 5 hours at age 30, were 19% more likely to […]

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