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Saturday 22 November 2014

Running for a healthier life

Recent study demonstrate that running regularly has positive effect on your becoming older.
In their study,Ortega et al., Plos One 2014 compared the metabolic effects of running regularly versus walking. They found a positive correlation between mitigation of the age-related deterioration of walking economy. Interestingly, walking for exercise appears to have minimal effect on the same parameters. The authors measured walking economy using expired gas analysis and walking mechanics via ground reaction forces during the last 2 minutes of each 5 minute trial. A a greater metabolic cost (worse economy) compared to young adults is a distinctive characteristic of impaired walking performance among older adults, which itself is a key predictor of morbidity among older adults. This analysis only add to the wealth of other that show the positive effect of moving regularly on life expectancy and quality. Doint exercise lengthen your life, delay dependency arrival. All this translate into an important of economical cost that is not spent by public health system.

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