Even a little exercise is better than none. While current health guidelines recommend at least two to three hours of physical activity per week for optimal health, many fall below that mark. New research has shown that shouldn’t discourage you. “During years of follow-up, the team found that people who did less than the minimum recommended amount of physical activity still had a considerable decrease in risk of death compared to people who did no activity at all. Researchers looked at data on more than 660,000 men and women in the U.S. and Europe. Half the studies had tracked participants for more than 14 years. Based on self-reports of physical activity, people who did less than the recommended minimum of activity were still 20 percent less likely to die during the studies than people who were not active at all.” That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t bother to hit the minimum benchmarks. “Mortality risk was 31 percent lower for people who did one to two times the recommended minimum, and 37 percent lower for those who did two to three times the recommended minimum.” Still, the research shows that whatever you can fit in is better than nothing at all.

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