Three years more life for 15 minutes’ exercise a day
November 15, 2011
Calling all couch potatoes. You can live an extra three years if you exercise for just 15 minutes a day – half the 30-minute minimum prescribed by the World Health Organization. That’s the heart-warming news from an eight-year study on 400,000 people of all ages in Taiwan. “Halving the daily exercise requirement still yielded significant benefits for men and women, young and old, smokers and non-smokers, and even for high-risk groups such as diabetics and people with high blood pressure,” says Chi-Pang …
THIS is exactly what I need to perk up my sedentary lifestyle! I will GLADLY take three more years of life. 
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November 25, 2011 at 8:39 am
Three years maybe. But exercising daily will lift your daily mood for the rest of your life! Priceless. I do about 30 minutes a day and I split it up into two 15 minutes session in the morning and in the evening. It hardly takes any time each day! Good post!