{"id":2283,"date":"2015-05-30T05:57:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-30T05:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2283"},"modified":"2025-09-28T12:38:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T12:38:16","slug":"daily-exercise-in-old-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2283","title":{"rendered":"Daily exercise in &#8220;old age&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The article references people in their 70&#39;s and 80&#39;s. I&#39;m not there yet.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2015\/may\/15\/daily-exercise-as-beneficial-to-health-in-old-age-as-quitting-smoking-study-finds?CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2\" target=\"_self\" title=\"\">\u201cA mortality reduction of 40% was associated with a moderate use of time (30 minutes, six days a week) irrespective of whether the activity was light or vigorous,\u201d their study said.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Among those who exercised vigorously \u2013 defined as hard training several times a week \u2013 the lifespan was as much as five years longer than among those who were sedentary.<\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The article references people in their 70&#39;s and 80&#39;s. I&#39;m not there yet. \u201cA mortality reduction of 40% was associated with a moderate use of time (30 minutes, six days a week) irrespective of whether the activity was light or vigorous,\u201d their study said. Among those who exercised vigorously \u2013 defined as hard training several [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2283"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6191,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2283\/revisions\/6191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}