{"id":14543,"date":"2019-11-27T14:11:33","date_gmt":"2019-11-27T14:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/squad\/?p=14543"},"modified":"2019-11-27T14:11:33","modified_gmt":"2019-11-27T14:11:33","slug":"even-a-little-running-lowers-death-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/running\/even-a-little-running-lowers-death-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"Even a Little Running Lowers Death Risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">New research says you don\u2019t need to be running marathons\u2014or even running daily\u2014to lower your death risk. In fact, even a little running can lower your death risk by 27%.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Currently, the World Health Organization suggests that adults should take part in a minimum of 150 minutes of moderate-intensity or 75 minutes of vigorous-intensity physical activity per week. But is that necessary to reduce your death risk?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><b>How even a little running helps<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A team of researchers from Victoria University in Melbourne wanted to know if running helped lower the risk of death due to cardiovascular disease and cancer, as well as if more running offers even more protection against death from all causes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The scientists reviewed published papers, doctoral theses and conference papers that were related to the link between running and death risks. In total, the review covered data from 232,149 people and 14 studies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In addition to the 27% decreased death risk, they found:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Running was linked to a 30% lower risk of death relating to cardiovascular disease.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Running was linked to a 23% lower risk of cancer-related death.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Even people who only ran once per week (or less frequently) had a lower death risk.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Even people who ran at low speeds (under 6 MPH) had a lower death risk.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Even people who ran less than 50 minutes had a lower death risk.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Running for longer than the recommended amount had no extra health benefits or further reductions in the risk of death.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Caveats to the research findings<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It\u2019s important to note that the research was observational. The goal was not to establish cause. In addition, all the studies that were reviewed used a variety of methodology and cohort sizes, which could play a role in the final results.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The results of the research were published in the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">British Journal of Sports Medicine.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New research says you don\u2019t need to be running marathons\u2014or even running daily\u2014to lower your death risk. In fact, even a little running can lower your death risk by 27%. \u00a0Currently, the World Health Organization suggests that adults should take part in a minimum of 150 minutes of moderate-intensity or 75 minutes of vigorous-intensity physical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[706],"tags":[770,707],"class_list":["post-14543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-running","tag-exercise","tag-running"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}