You can add 1.8 years to your expected life by brisk walking 75 minutes every week. You can even do weekend walking.
Do it for 450 minutes a week and you can add 4.5 years to expected life. Remember this is in addition to normal expected life which is around 60+ in many countries.
I-Min Lee is professor in Harvard Medical School doing research in the area of physical activity and health benefits.
Full article: Weekend Warriors and Risk of Mortality
http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/content/160/7/636.full
Effect of Physical Inactivity on Major Non-Communicable Diseases
Lancet, 18 July 2012
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(12)61031-9/abstract
Inactivity Killing as many as smoking
July 2012
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-18876880
Walk you way to health
November 2012
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_131058.html
Original article in PlosMedicine
Leisure Time Physical Activity of Moderate to Vigorous Intensity and Mortality: A Large Pooled Cohort Analysis
http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pmed.1001335
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