30 Minutes of Muscle Training Can Lower Risk of Death

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Researchers from Japan say that doing muscle-strengthening exercises for 30 to 60 minutes a week can lower the risk of early death. This kind of exercise includes things like push-ups, yoga, and walking up steps. The researchers looked at 16 studies with 4,000 to 480,000 adults from the US, England, Scotland, Australia, and Japan. The participants were healthy, and they were watched for at least two years. The results, published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, showed that people who did 30 to 60 minutes of strength training each week had a 10% to 20% lower risk of early death from any cause. This exercise also lowered the risks of heart disease and cancer by about the same amount. People who did both muscle training and aerobic exercise had a 40% lower risk of death from any cause, 46% lower risk of heart disease, and 28% lower risk of death from cancer. However, doing more than 130 to 140 minutes of muscle training did not have the same positive effects.

Questions

1- What kind of exercise did the Japanese researchers suggest to lower the risk of early death?

2- How many minutes per week of muscle-strengthening exercises did the researchers find to lower the risk of early death?

3- What percentage lower risk of early death did people have who did both muscle training and aerobic exercise?

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