Exercise For Longevity

It has been published in a recent study that people who can sustain a sound and active lifestyle though they gain age continue with less weight than people who exercise at more moderate levels. The study was conducted over a large group of runners who kept the same exercise regimen as they grew older.

It has also come out by the vigorous study that sustenance of exercise with age is particularly effective in preventing extreme weight gain, which is associated with high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, and other diseases.

The study, it has been found out, was conducted by Paul Williams of the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). As part of the study the keymen were instrumental in followig 6,119 men and 2,221 women who maintained their weekly running mileage (to within three miles per week) over a seven-year period and in the same mode without fail. It has been found that on average, the men and women who ran over 30 miles per week gained half the weight of those who ran less than 15 miles per week.

While talking to this reporter Willimas said, "To my knowledge, this is the only study of its type," himself, a staff scientist in Berkeley Lab's Life Sciences Division. "Other studies have tracked exercise over time, but the majority of people will have changed their exercise habits considerably," he continued.

The research has been the latest report from the National Runners' Health Study, a 20-year research initiative started by Williams that includes more than 120,000 runners. It appears in the May issue of the journal Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise.

"As these runners aged, the benefits of exercise were not in the changes they saw in their bodies, but how they didn't change like the people around them," said Williams.