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Women Need Less Exercise to Get Health Benefits

Doing regular exercise is good for all of us. But a new study has suggested that women may be able to get greater benefits from exercise even when doing the same amount as men.

Or, in other words, men may have to do more exercise to get the same benefits from it as women.

Researchers from China and the US found that doing regular exercise can decrease the risk of early death for both men and women. That's not new information. However, the next part was interesting.

The researchers found that men needed to do 300 minutes of moderate or vigorous exercise per week to get their maximum benefit, while women needed only 140 minutes per week to get the same benefit.

They studied more than 400,000 healthy adult participants in the US between 1997 and 2019. The participants all took health surveys that asked about the amount of exercise they did.

By the end of 2019, almost 40,000 of the participants had died, including more than 11,500 from heart disease.

The research team said that by doing 140 minutes of regular exercise per week, women reduced their risk of early death by 18%, but men needed to do 300 minutes to get to that point.

When women did 300 minutes of exercise, their risk of an early death — from any cause, including heart disease — was reduced by 24%. Previous studies have shown that women and girls tend to do less exercise than boys and men, and this study also found that female participants did less regular exercise.

The results don't mean that women should exercise less, said the researchers. But they may encourage women who don't do very much exercise that even doing a small amount can have benefits.

Questions

1. How much exercise do men need per week to get their maximum benefit?

2. How many minutes of exercise did the research team recommend women do every week?

3. Do women tend to exercise less than men?

Further 

1. What are your thoughts on the findings of this study?
2. Do you find it surprising that women need to exercise less than half as much as men for the same benefits?
3. Who are the most active women you know? What types of exercise are they into?
4. Are you happy with the amount of exercise you currently do per week?
5. Do you generally prefer moderate or vigorous exercise?

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