Want to keep your heart healthy and your arteries open? A new study shows how much exercise you should do to keep both in optimal health. Convenient, right?
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class= "article-image inner u caption"> is exactly what you should do to keep your arteries young and open. (picture: twenty20/@klebersmith)A new study determined that exercising two to three times a week for 30 minutes was enough to keep middle-sized arteries (arteries supplying oxygen-rich blood to the head and neck) young. People who exercise four or more times a week keep their main arteries -- blood for the chest and abdomen -- healthy. Basically, if you want to keep your heart young, plan to exercise at least four times a week.
-Benjamin Levine, M.D., one of the authors of the study, explained: "This work is really exciting because it enables us to plan exercise, keep the heart young, and even restore the heart and blood vessels of the elderly to normal." Second Environmental Medicine (IEEM) at Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas, Texas. Researchers from the Institute of Sports and Environmental Medicine, Texas Presbyterian Health Hospital and the Southwest Medical Center of the University of Texas recruited 102 elderly people over 60 years of age who maintained exercise habits throughout their lives. They also studied the arterial stiffness of each participant, a key indicator of arterial health.
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and then according to the frequency of their exercise, they divided the subjects into four groups. The sedentary (less than two exercises a week), the occasional (two to three exercises a week), the persistent (four to five exercises a week) and the excellent athletes do 6 to 7 shocking exercises a week. What about the results? As mentioned above, exercising at least four times a week for 30 minutes is the best.
Most of us already know that the benefits of exercise go beyond appearance. It can not only boost your mood, but also prevent a series of chronic health conditions, help bone and muscle health, and seriously improve cardiovascular health.
Of course, this study is flawed. It does not specify the type of movement the participants engage in, but only that they calculate moderate intensity and above, and the participants have relatively few samples. However, these recommendations are not unrealistic, and are in good agreement with the recommendations of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (cdc), which recommends that adults exercise moderately for at least 2 hours and 30 minutes a week or vigorously for 1 hour and 15 minutes. So, yes, there's no excuse. If the new study doesn't have enough motivation to get you off the couch, here are nine unexpected things that happen when you give up exercising. Now move on! What do you think of
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