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Exercise your wayto a healthier lifeand retirementBY LISA [email protected]

Popping out for a regularbrisk walk or cycle, and usingthe stairs instead of the lift,could be as good as poppingpills for some conditions.

While it’s long been knownthat physical activitymassively reduces the risk ofdeveloping certain diseases, amajor new study suggests ex-ercise may also be as effectiveas drugs at treating conditionslike heart disease and stroke.

Although people who sufferfrom such illnesses shouldn’tjust throw their tablets away,the implication is that regularexercise should be as import-ant a part of their treatmentregime as medication.

The new study, by research-ers at the London School ofEconomics, Harvard MedicalSchool and Stanford Uni-versity School of Medicine,analysed the results of 305trials involving nearly 340,000

people, comparing the effect-iveness of exercise and drugson preventing death.

It found being active wasjust as good as medicine forthose with existing heart dis-ease, and in the prevention ofdiabetes, and a more effectivetreatment than drugs forpeople who’d suffered as t ro ke.

Professor Mark Batt, a sportand exercise medicine con-sultant at Nottingham Uni-versity Hospitals, says: “P hy s -ical activity is extremelyimportant for health, and weknow there’s compelling evid-ence for both the prevention ofchronic diseases and now int re at m e n t .

“There was already inform-ation about how effective ex-ercise is in reducing the risk ofdeveloping chronic diseasessuch as diabetes, stroke, highblood pressure, and also de-pression, osteoporosis andothers, but this study givesmore information about its ef-

fectiveness as a treatment, andt h at ’s really important.”

But while physical activityis clearly good for your healthon several levels, only 14 percent of UK adults exercise reg-ularly, and recent BritishHeart Foundation figuresshow that only a third meetrecommended levels of phys-ical activity.

Part of the problem is, ofcourse, that often it’s easier toreach for the pills than it is toexercise. But Batt points outthat people don’t need to join agym and make a huge effort toachieve the benefits of beinga c t ive.

Just taking the recommen-ded weekly 150 minutes ofmoderate intensity exercise isenough to really make a dif-f e re n c e.

“We ’re struggling to getenough people to meet phys-ical activity guidelines,” s ay sBatt. “Society is partly toblame – we like things to bevery easy.

“But this isn’t about buyinga new tracksuit and runningshoes, it’s about a lifestylechang e.”

Although there’s “a moun-tain of evidence” that physicalactivity is very good forhealth, Batt says there’s a lackof evidence about the exerciseprescription that works best.

“We won’t find a perfectdose because we’re all differ-ent,” he explains. “W h at ’sright for one person may notbe for somebody else.”

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Whatever form ofexercise you chooseto do, a basic levelof fitness can helpfight illnesses

While physical activity is clearly good for your health on several levels, only 14 per cent of UK adults exercise regularly, and recent British Heart Foundation figures show that only a third meet recommended levels of physical activity

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Nevertheless, simply doingthe minimum amount of re-commended exercise couldbring a wealth of benefits.

For example, after regularlyexercising, someone taking adrug for mild high blood pres-sure might be able to come offit, lose weight and reduce thechances of developing type 2diabetes and osteoarthritis,and will probably feel a lotb e t t e r.

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to this fantastic form of treat-ment that we haven’t investedenough in,” stresses Batt.

“What we should be saying islet’s get everybody to meet thephysical activity guidelines,rather than waiting for a trialto find the perfect dose, whichwill never happen. There isn’ta one-size exercise dose thatfits all.”

In some cases, exercising in-stead of taking medication,rather than as well as, may be apossibility, says Batt.

“For many conditions, a life-Exercise may be good for you, but only 14% of adultsdo it regularly

style change that involves im-proving physical activity, aswell as paying attention toweight, undoubtedly willenable some people to come offmedicines for type two dia-betes and mild high blood pres-s u re.

“Longer lives and thenumber of prescriptions writ-ten for chronic diseases is whyh e a l t h c a re ’s becoming m o reexpensive, yet the number ofadults exercising is very low,”Batt adds. “Exercise can bef re e ; drugs cost a lot.”

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