Hiking extend the life of 7 years

You want to extend your life by as much as seven additional years? Nothing could be simpler - for this you need to walk all-only two and a half hours per week.

It is believed by researchers from Harvard University, walks lasting two and a half hours a week is enough to increase the lifespan person more than seven years. Even half of that amount is still exploring the body brings benefit. 75 minutes per week (slightly more than seven minutes a day!) Prolong the lives of nearly two years.

These conclusions were based on the analysis of the life and health of more than 600,000 men and women aged 40 years and older. The findings confirm the controversial argument that you can be a complete man, and at the same time healthy. Experts analyzed six previous studies on the relationship of health and lifestyle. The main emphasis was placed on clarifying the role of moderate loads.

By walking had in mind a walking pace when a person moves fast enough to sweat, but slow enough to maintain a dialogue with anyone. People with excess weight two and a half hours of walking per week can extend lifespan   3, 4 years, on average. Increasing the time walking up to five hours a week to prolong the life of 4, 2 years, and seven and a half hours - 4, 5.

But the greatest benefit from walking yet recovered people with normal body weight. For these two and a half hours of walking per week was allowed to increase life expectancy by more than seven years as reported in the journal PLoS Medicine. But the lack of sporting loads at a healthy body weight reduces life expectancy by 3 and 1 year compared with those people with overweight, who still retained activity. That is the sport in this case is more important than the extra weight!

Fitness

Go back to the main page