By Steven Reinberg, HealthDay News
Just a 20-minute brisk walk each day can lower odds of early death, researchers add.
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Just 20 minutes of exercise a day can lower your risk of early death by 30 percent, the study found.
Being sedentary may be twice as deadly as being obese, a new study suggests.
However, even a little exercise — a brisk 20-minute walk each day, for example — is enough to reduce the risk of an early death by as much as 30 percent, the British researchers added.
“Efforts to encourage small increases in physical activity in inactive individuals likely have significant health benefits,” said lead author Ulf Ekelund, a senior investigator scientist in the Medical Research Council Epidemiology Unit at the University of Cambridge.
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