Hallelujah. Take
that, workplace health-screening survey.
LONDON (Reuters) - Drinking is healthy, exercise is healthy, and doing a little of both is even healthier, Danish researchers reported on Wednesday.
People who neither drink nor exercise have a 30 to 49 percent higher risk of heart disease than people who do one or both of the activities, the researchers said in the European Heart Journal.
"The main finding is there seems to be an additional beneficial effect of drinking one to two drinks per day and doing at least moderate physical activity," said Morten Gronbaek of the University of Southern Denmark, who led the study.
Now to work a little more on that whole exercise part.
Oh, wait, good news there too:
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A brisk 30-minute walk 6 days a week is enough to trim waistlines and cut the risk of metabolic syndrome -- an increasingly common condition that is linked to obesity and a sedentary lifestyle, a new study indicates.
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Fortunately, I take three or four brisk, 30-minute walks seven days a week, with the occasional rests for Graham to smell fences, pay phones, mailboxes, other dogs, garbage, anything that might resemble food or that may have once, possibly, been food, and to do his business. On top of the three trips to the gym to use the exercise bike or elliptical machine, and two to lift weights. Ugh. I feel tired.
I just read in Allure magazine (and since the accompanying photo is of a model lifting weights wearing stilettos, a fur vest, and metallic Norma Kamali bodysuit, you know it's got to be true): the treadmill is better than the bike or elliptical machines because it works more muscles and keeps the heart rate up.
Graham's a natural training coach. The cat: not so much.
Yes, the treadmill is the most effective exercise machine (and my current conditioning in no way approaches what it was when I ran three days a week), but my knees are in no condition to use that on a regular basis. Something about getting old and sucking.
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