People over 40 with average levels of daily exercise can gain five extra years of life by bumping up activity levels The benefit is even greater for the worst 'couch potato' types -- an extra 11 years Doing so would raise average U.S. lifespans to almost 84 years FRIDAY, Nov.
15, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- If you're over 40 and raise your levels of exercise to that of the top 25% of your peers, you might gain an average of five more years of life, a new study calculates. For over-40 folks in the lowest level of daily activity, a similar move could bring an average 11 extra years, the same report found. The study results surprised even its Australian authors.
“Our findings suggest that [physical activity] provides substantially larger health benefits than previously thought,” wrote a team led by . He's a professor public health at Griffith University School of Medicine and Dentistry in Gold Coast, Queensland. The new study focused on U.
S. data: Information on daily physical activity gleaned from "activity trackers" worn by participants aged 40 and above in 2003 to 2006 federal health surveys; and data on U.S.
deaths from 2017 and 2019, also recorded in federal databanks. Veerman's team calculated that daily levels of physical activity (in whatever form) that placed people in the top 25% in terms of fitness was equal to about 2 hours and 40 minutes of normal-paced (3 miles per hour) walking. The researchers calculated that if everyone over 40 suddenly matched this activity le.
