Don't be discouraged. The findings, published in the November issue of the American Heart Journal , suggest that for inactive people, it may never be too late to begin exercising. The most important finding from our study is that it doesn' t matter if people were active most of their lives or not.
Exercise is like medicine.
If you take it, you'll see results. If you stop, you won't. All the study participants had no evidence of heart disease. Researchers found that recent physical activity was associated with a lower overall rate of death in both men and women. When they examined the hours spent at moderate and heavy activity, they found that men and women with the lowest rate of death were less active in the past, but were most active recently.