Jerusalem Study- Exercise Can Extend Life in Even the Oldest of the Old

October 10, 2009

The big fad nowadays among the news organizations and “health gurus” of the world is to proclaim that while exercise might improve your quality of life, only nutrition improves the length. Even I was bombarded enough with this claim that I started to believe it…until I found this study done in my hometown of Jerusalem.
Here’s a quote from the study:
“The three-year survival rate was about three times higher for active 85-year-olds compared with those who were inactive. Getting less than four hours of exercise weekly was considered inactive; more than that was active.”
“The results “clearly support the continued encouragement of physical activity, even among the oldest old. Indeed, it seems that it is never too late to start,” the researchers wrote in Monday’s Archives of Internal Medicine, which published the study.”
My comments: All I want to say is…wow. The study means that they if 20 people died of those […]

Original post by rafael@thefitnessadviser.com (Rafi Bar-Lev)

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