FIT FOR LIFE
Jan 20, 2021
4 minutes
Words: Matt Ray
Doctors have known since the 1980s that exercise is possibly the most effective thing we can do to stay healthy. “If exercise could be packed into a pill,” as Dr Robert Butler famously said, “it would be the single most widely prescribed and beneficial medicine in the nation.”
“Decades-long training can give you an enduring edge in the health stakes”
A regular training programme – embedded as part of your lifestyle – can keep heart disease at bay; help to prevent cancer; reduce the risk of diabetes; improve mental health; keep your mind sharp; and even extend your lifespan, full stop. But now, new research is showing that decades-long training also helps certain genes in our makeup ‘express’
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