Exercise cuts risk of chronic disease in older adults [medicalxpress.com]

Alicia Doktor 7/24/1812:00 PM

New research has shown that older adults who exercise above current recommended levels have a reduced risk of developing chronic disease compared with those who do not exercise.

Researchers at the Westmead Institute for Medical Research interviewed more than 1,500 Australian adults aged over 50 and followed them over a 10-year period.

People who engaged in the highest levels of total physical activity were twice as lively to avoid stroke, heart disease, angina, cancer and diabetes, and be in optimal physical and mental shape 10 years later, experts found.

[For more on this story by Westmead Institute for Medical Research, go to https://medicalxpress.com/news...se-older-adults.html]

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