Hurry to the bus stop. Rush up the stairs. Play tag with your kids. Vacuum the living room with a little extra zing. Increasing the vigor and intensity of our daily activities could have a substantial impact on our longevity, according to a new study.
published last year in JAMA Internal Medicine concluded that people who occasionally pushed themselves during exercise were about 17 percent less likely to die prematurely than other people who did the same amount of exercise, but at a gentler, moderate pace.
“If we’re honest, most people are allergic to the word ‘exercise,’” said Emmanuel Stamatakis, a professor of physical activity and health studies at the University of Sydney in Australia, who led the new study.Acknowledging that stance, he and his colleagues began to wonder recently about the effects of non-exercise activities — those frequent tasks and movements that make up a hefty portion of our days but are not exercise.
But by the end, the researchers could map the participants’ brief bursts of movement, as when someone ran for a train or chased after a toddler. These physical spurts might last for as little as a minute.But they mattered for mortality. Comparing activity patterns to death records for a period of about seven years after people joined the Biobank, the scientists found those men and women who averaged 4.
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