It’s well known that exercise is good for the heart. New research shows that increasing your physical activity levels increases the benefits to your heart, even if you’re already in good shape! With nearly 100,000 participants, Terence Dwyer and his colleagues measured physical activity levels and kept track of whether or not a person developed heart disease. They found that increasing physical activity was directly related to decreased risk for heart disease, with no upper limit for physical activity’s benefits. The most active participants fared better than all the other participants who did less physical activity. They even fared better than those who engaged in relatively large amounts of physical activity but were not a part of the top group. This result was true even after accounting for other factors like socioeconomic status.
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