Gretchen Reynolds of The New York Times Well column writes citing from an encouraging new study that peoples who do even mild exercise like walking produces better cardiovascular health benefits.

According to the study, “people who often exercise and stay active are much less likely to develop heart disease than people who rarely move, whether that exercise consists of a few minutes a day of jogging or multiple hours a week of walking”.

The results “provide even stronger evidence than has been available previously” that “physical activity, including vigorous physical activity, is important for reducing the risk of cardiovascular disease. The benefits were “about double what had been found with most self-report studies.”

Dr. Terence Dwyer, an emeritus professor of epidemiology at the University of Oxford in England & study lead (source: The New York Times)

This study showed that “active people happen also to be people with healthy hearts. It does not prove that walks and other activities directly strengthen people’s hearts, only that the two are linked,” writes Reynolds.