According to a long-term study of aging in older people, men who need to live longer could be clever to be as physically lively as possible. Men reported in British Journal of Sports Medicine.
In 1972–73, the Oslo Study recruited roughly 15,000 Norwegian men aged 40 to 49 years. In 2000, survivor participants accomplished a survey about their each day physical activity. This included every part from couch and potato time in front of the TV to vigorous athletic workouts several times every week.
As of 2012, men within the Oslo Study who reported being lively at any level for a minimum of half-hour a day, six days every week, were 40 percent less more likely to die from any cause. To put it in absolute terms: men who recurrently engage in moderate-to-vigorous physical activity live a median of 5 years longer than inactive men.
Although the study clearly documents that lively older men live longer, it doesn't explain why. The men who lived to 2012 may owe a minimum of a part of their longevity to aspects aside from exercise that the study didn't take into consideration. Conversely, hidden unhealthy effects, comparable to mental decline or reduced mobility, may explain why some men didn't live long and didn't exercise much. Despite these caveats, the general body of research strongly suggests that for many men, regular, moderate exercise at older ages does more good than harm.
