Exercise is key to staying healthy, but does the time you choose to exercise make a difference when it comes to living longer? A team of researchers from the University of Sydney followed 30,000 overweight people over eight years. The morning and afternoon workouts were also found to be beneficial to health, although the results were not as strong as among the evening exercisers.
For example, morning exercisers have a 33 percent lower risk of death from any cause and a 17 percentLower risk of cardiovascular disease. The researchers recommend that people with obesity and diabetes plan their physical activity for the evening hours to reduce their risk of early death by 39%. Previous studies have indicated that just 22 minutes of physical activity a day is enough to reduce the risk ofEarly death and eliminate the health damage of sedentary work or just long hours on the couch. Other studies show walking can be enough to improve life expectancy - a minimum of 4,000 steps is considered sufficient to improve a minimum life expectancy of 4 years or more.