2024-05-05 12:08:09
A recent study found that physical activity may repair the damage to the physical health of middle-aged people, especially women.
The University of Sydney study tracked more than 11,000 women in Australia and concluded that midlife is a crucial time to be physically active for at least 150 minutes a week.
The results, published in PLOS Medicine, showed that women, between the ages of 40 and 50, who were constantly physically active over a 15-year period had better physical health scores than women who did not.
Even participants who did not exercise regularly before middle age benefited from a serious physical routine, and their health improved.
Future studies are needed to see if these physical benefits also extend to middle-aged men, and researchers believe that men could gain the same benefits.
The research team wrote that humans may be able to “compensate” for inactivity early in life with physical activity in middle age
Interestingly, exercising at the age of 60 does not give the same good results as starting to exercise at the age of 50, according to the study.
A study conducted by researchers at the Smidt Heart Institute in California found that women need to spend less time exercising to get the same cardiovascular health benefits as men.
According to what was reported in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, researchers found that women need about two and a half hours of moderate to vigorous aerobic physical activity per week to get the same benefit as men who spend five hours.
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2024-05-05 12:08:09