Many types of exercise are linked to a lower risk of premature death, but activities like racquet sports, swimming and aerobics seem best at improving people’s chances of staving off an early demise, according to a new study.
Researchers found that people in the study who regularly played racquet sports had a 47 percent lower risk of dying over the course of the nine-year study than people who did not regularly engage in such sports. And people who regularly went swimming had a 28 percent lower risk of an early death during the study than those who did not regularly swim, the researchers found.
Moreover, people who regularly did aerobics had a 27 percent lower risk of dying during the course of the nine-year study than people who did not regularly do such activity, the researchers found.
“These findings demonstrate that participation in specific sports may have significant benefits for public health,” the researchers, at the UKK Institute in Finland and the University of Sydney in Australia, wrote in the study, published Tuesday (Nov. 29) in the British Journal of Sports Medicine.
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