Not exercising can have a worse effect on your health than smoking, diabetes and heart disease
| Oct 29, 2018, 15:15 IST
A new study has found that skipping your daily workout session could have a lot more adverse effects than you thought. The study found that leading a sedentary lifestyle can be a lot worse for your health than smoking, diabetes and even heart disease. Researchers at Cleveland Clinic, United States, conducted the study where they found that poor exercise habits led to such drastic results for the body that they were deemed even worse than the results caused by smoking, diabetes and heart disease.
“Aerobic fitness is something that most patients can control. And we found in our study that there is no limit to how much exercise is too much. Everyone should be encouraged to achieve and maintain high fitness levels,” Dr. Jaber said. “It should be treated almost as a disease that has a prescription, which is called exercise,” he said.
“We also saw that the negative impact on survival from being in the lowest fitness group is worse than almost all known risk factors that we associate with death — hypertension, diabetes, cholesterol, and even kidney failure. Since the focus has always been on addressing these risks to improve mortality, we found that the biggest risk was just under our nose — being physically less fit,” Dr. Jaber said.
The doctors recommend muscle-strengthening activities to be done two to three times a week for at least 150 minutes combined. Stay tuned for more updates.
“Aerobic fitness is something that most patients can control. And we found in our study that there is no limit to how much exercise is too much. Everyone should be encouraged to achieve and maintain high fitness levels,” Dr. Jaber said. “It should be treated almost as a disease that has a prescription, which is called exercise,” he said.
“We also saw that the negative impact on survival from being in the lowest fitness group is worse than almost all known risk factors that we associate with death — hypertension, diabetes, cholesterol, and even kidney failure. Since the focus has always been on addressing these risks to improve mortality, we found that the biggest risk was just under our nose — being physically less fit,” Dr. Jaber said.
The doctors recommend muscle-strengthening activities to be done two to three times a week for at least 150 minutes combined. Stay tuned for more updates.