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New study says 30 minutes of exercise a day is not enough. You should double or quadr

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...druple-the-amount-of-exercising-theyre-doing/

If you're among of the millions of Americans who dutifully carve out 30 minutes a day for the moderate-intensity exercise recommended by experts based on the the idea that you're doing all that you can for your heart, you're in for some disappointing news. A new analysis published Monday in the journal Circulation finds that that amount of activity just might not be good enough. For the paper, researchers reviewed 12 previous studies involving 370,460 men and women with varying levels of physical activity. Over a mean followup time of 15 years, this group experienced 20,203 heart failure events. Each of the participants self-reported their daily activities which allowed the team to estimate the amount of exercise they were doing.

They found that those following the 30-minutes-a-day guidelines issued by the American Heart Association had “modest reductions” in heart failure risk compared to those who did not work out at all. But those who did twice and four times as much exercise experienced “a substantial risk reduction" of 20 and 35 percent respectively. The findings challenge the notion of a 30-minutes-a-day magic number for exercise. Instead, research found that physical activity and heart failure may be what they called "dose-dependent," meaning that higher levels of physical activity appeared to be linked to a lower risk of heart failure. That association appeared to hold across age groups, gender and race.
 
Re: New study says 30 minutes of exercise a day is not enough. You should double or q

So in other words I should spend all my spare time exercising then.
 
Re: New study says 30 minutes of exercise a day is not enough. You should double or q

Not realistic. Most Americans simply do not have 2 spare hours per day to spend just on exercise. It is pointless to suggest a cure that most people simply cannot/will not do.

I guarantee you that more benefits can be derived from eating healthily then exercising 2 hours per day.

Obesity is the big problem, not lack of exercise.

Stop eating garbage, eat slowly and do not use food as an escape PLUS throw in 30 minutes of daily light exercise and that is, IMO, all most people need.
 
Re: New study says 30 minutes of exercise a day is not enough. You should double or q

30 mins is better than nothing for the fat people of USA.
 
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Carjosse said:
So in other words I should spend all my spare time exercising then.
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I suspect it depends on how active you are at work. I wish they would take workplace activity levels into account when they do these studies.

Also, I seem to remember reading just a few months ago about a study that found that exercising more than a half hour a did didn't significantly improve the fitness level of the participants, so who really knows? Do we believe this study or that other one or the one that comes out next month?
 
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imagep said:
I suspect it depends on how active you are at work. I wish they would take workplace activity levels into account when they do these studies.

Also, I seem to remember reading just a few months ago about a study that found that exercising more than a half hour a did didn't significantly improve the fitness level of the participants, so who really knows? Do we believe this study or that other one or the one that comes out next month?
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Also, most people find exercising boring/not fun. How long is someone going to keep up something that they do not like for 2 hours every, single day? Not long, I am guessing.

I loved playing sports, but you cannot play sports for two hours every day. And I personally find jogging or stationary bike riding BOOOOOOORING. And I am supposed to spend 1/8 of ALL of my waking hours doing that? Forget it.
 
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DA60 said:
Not realistic. Most Americans simply do not have 2 spare hours per day to spend just on exercise. It is pointless to suggest a cure that most people simply cannot/will not do.

I guarantee you that more benefits can be derived from eating healthily then exercising 2 hours per day.

Obesity is the big problem, not lack of exercise.

Stop eating garbage, eat slowly and do not use food as an escape PLUS throw in 30 minutes of daily light exercise and that is, IMO, all most people need.
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The problem is, healthy food is expensive, and many good meals require time to make, which, as you said, is what people are lacking.
 
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I won't lose sleep over it.
 
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