More Epidemiological Evidence for the Recommended Level of Exercise to be Too Low (opens in new tab)

Past studies have indicated that the recommended 150 minutes per week of moderate to vigorous physical activity is lower than the optimal level. Here find another such study, in this case recommending something more like 600 minutes per week. Humans evolved in an environment of considerably more physical activity than is undertaken by people in wealthier regions of the world. This is an age of comfort and machineries of transportation, and the consequence difference in rates of age-related ca...