Only 1 hour of running can extend your life is 7 hours

Recent studies have shown that running is able to extend the life better than other types of physical activity.

What was known about the running and longevity previously

Three years ago, a group of researchers specializing in physical activities, carefully examined data from a large number of medical and fitness tests conducted in the Cooper Institute in Dallas. this analysisLeisure-Time Running Reduces All-Cause and Cardiovascular Mortality Risk He has shown that even five minutes of daily running a positive effect on life expectancy.

After the publication of this work, the researchers have been inundated with questions from fellow scientists and the general public. People have asked whether other exercises to be as useful if the race can, on the contrary, harm, and questioned the effectiveness of the run.

Therefore, in the new study,Running as a Key Lifestyle Medicine for Longevity, Whose results were published in March 2017, a professor of kinesiology Duck-Chul Lee of the University of Iowa and his colleagues decided to answer these questions. They re-analyzed data from the Institute of Cooper, and examined the results of a number of other recent large-scale studies on the relationship between physical activity and mortality.

That a new study

Prior research findings confirmed. Running regardless of tempo and duration reduces a person's risk of premature death by 40%. And this was true even when the researchers took into account smoking, alcohol consumption and health problems such as hypertension or obesity.

Based on these figures, scientists have determined that if all study participants do nebegavshie sports, it would be 25% fewer heart attacks and deaths by 16% fewer deaths in whole.

Also, scientists have come to the conclusion that an hour of running man returns longer life than consuming, increasing the life span of seven hours.

Members of the Institute of Cooper test trained for two hours a week. Taking such a schedule as a basis, the researchers calculated that a typical runner for nearly 40 years It will spend at least six months of training, but can be expected to increase life expectancy by 3.2 of the year.

Can run have the opposite effect? According to the scientists, no. Dr. Li says that a positive effect on life expectancy run stops increasing at about four hours of jogging per week and is no longer reduced.

Other types of physical activity also have a positive effect on life expectancy, but to a lesser degree. walking and a ride on the bicycleEven if requested by the person about the same effort as running normally reduce the risk of premature death by about 12%.

Why run so efficient - remains a mystery. One suggestion is that he fights with many of the common risk factors for early death, including high blood pressure and obesity.

Of course, running will not make us immortal. new study results do not indicate a direct relationship between the running and longevity. They only indicate that shifty people live longer. Scientists say that runners typically lead a healthy lifestyle and it can also play a big role in reducing the risk of premature death.