A new study suggests that if you are over 40 and increase your exercise level by 25%, you could gain an average of five more years of life.
A recent report found that for people over 40 who do the lowest levels of daily activity, increasing physical activity can increase their lifespan.
The study’s findings have also surprised Australian researchers.
“Our findings suggest that physical activity provides much greater health benefits than previously thought,” said Lennart Wermann, a professor of public health at Griffith University School of Medicine and Dentistry in Gold Coast, Queensland.
The new study focused on US data in which participants aged 40 and over wore “activity trackers” in the 2003 to 2006 federal health survey and obtained information about their daily physical activity.
