You said what happen ps to people that do half that much activity, what benefit do they get? they described the activity as brisk activities. think of these as moderate intensity, walking fast, you know, pushing a lawn mower, playing tennis. things where you can still talk but probably can t sing. they wanted that degree of bretbr breathlessness. they looked at 30,000 people and here is what they found. interesting. the sweet spot 150 minutes a week of activity which is what is recommended gave people significant reduction in mortality as you see there but if you did half that you still got a pretty significant reduction, 23%. even more if you exercise 300 minutes. you can see what happens to cardiovascular disease. do you get as much benefit as 70 minutes of activity? no but quite a bit. the same for cancer even. this is interesting giving some context what is the value of even a little bit of activity?
According to a new study, 11 minutes of moderate, not heavy, moderate activity could have major health benefits. cnn s dr. sanjay gupta has the great news. this was a pretty interesting study. so many exercise studies look at things in a but of a binary way. if you do this much activity, you get these benefits compared to no activity. what the researchers wanted to know what if it was less than the currently recommended amount of activity. what if you said, for example, to people who do half that amount of activity, how much benefit do they get? they describe the activity as brisk activities, moderate intensity, walking fast, pushing a lawn mower, playing tennis, things like that, things where you can still talk but probably can t sing. they want that degree of breathlessness. they look at this analysis over ten years and here s what they found. the sweet spot really in the