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Old 12-07-2021, 07:16 PM
 
Location: Flyover Country
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Medical science recommends 90 minutes of exercise per week, but I don't think that is nearly enough.
That's a bare minimum, to avoid being labeled sedentary. For optimal health I've read you should exercise 200 minutes a week. That's less than half an hour a day for 6 days a week. So walking a half hour a day covers those bases.
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Old 12-07-2021, 09:35 PM
 
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That's a bare minimum, to avoid being labeled sedentary. For optimal health I've read you should exercise 200 minutes a week. That's less than half an hour a day for 6 days a week. So walking a half hour a day covers those bases.
I can't believe half hour a day is enough for optimal health. We evolved walking a lot more than that.
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Old 12-07-2021, 11:38 PM
 
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That article is very confusing, because reducing risk for only 3% of common cancers is not at all impressive, and not even worth reporting. It doesn't even say how much the risk is reduced. Just a bad article, I guess.
It's very poorly written.

The article says walking 45 minutes a day reduces the risk for "3% of common cancers." That makes it sound like if there were, say, 100 common cancers, walking would reduce the risk for only 3 TYPES of cancer.

Later, the article states, "That number turned out to be 46,356, or about 3% of all cancers annually (excluding non-melanoma - skin cancers)." Now we're talking about a completely different 3%; 3% of the TOTAL number of all cancer CASES.
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Old 12-08-2021, 09:12 AM
 
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I can't believe half hour a day is enough for optimal health. We evolved walking a lot more than that.
It's a minimum. Of course, more is better, but that's a baseline number. You start at 200 minutes.
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Old 12-08-2021, 09:29 AM
 
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What type of exercise does a lazy person do?

Diddly-squats
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