22 Aug 2003
Value of vigorous exercise
A six-year study by the National Institute of Health involving 500 healthy adults, aged 40 to 60, found that heart atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries) progressed twice as rapidly among moderate exercisers as it did among those who exercised vigorously.
The research also found that atherosclerosis progressed three times as fast in those who did no exercise at all.
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