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YesYou have an Apple watchYou know the little noise that abeves it wants you to remind you that you have been sitting at your desk for too long and you have to walk. Given theGrowing research body that shows that a prolonged session is extremely bad for youYou might be tempted to keep his warning cry. But while buying your unnecessary loop around the office, you can not help but ask you, "Is it really something for my health?"

Apparently, it's. Since 2008, federal guidelines have reminded us that exercising for at least 30 minutes a day, five days a week, is crucial to stay young and healthy. For a long time, however, the accepted opinion was that these 30 minutes were to be completed at once, rather than multiple intervals scattered throughout the day. It was generally believed that moderate physical activity to vigorous has resulted in substantial health benefits only if it took place for 10 minutes or more.

But, according to a newto study, which was published this month in theJournal of the American Heart AssociationBy taking a walk to two minutes 15 times a day is also beneficial for your longevity for 15 minutes walk twice a day or 30 minutes at a time. (It's also theSimple way to pass through your mid-afternoon crisis.)

For the study, researchers analyzed the data of 4,840 men and women who spent the age of 40 who had worn accelerometers to follow their daily movements since 2002. They compared this data with how many men and women lived until 2011 and found that those who managed. To get an hour of physical activity a day, there was a half more likely to die than those who moved for 20 minutes or less per day. But he did not seem to want to adapt to 30 minutes on the treadmill or brief splinters of activity, like taking the stairs instead of the elevator or stretch the legs around the office between the projects.

"The message is that any physical activity counts"Dr. William Kraus, a professor at Duke University who led the study,RecountThe New York Times. "The little things that people do every day can and add up and affect the risk of illness and death,"

Research complies with another recent study that found thatTake short walks each day significantly reduces the risk of heart failure in post-menopausal womenas well as another study that foundthat sporadic gusts of light physical activity were essentially beneficial for the longevity that a sweat session at the gym.

Now, granted, prolonging your life and getting in shape are not one and the same,And if you wantJames McAvoy's abdosYou will always need to push your stamina and enter at least half an hour intense cardio. But if you want your goal to be just maintaining a healthy lifestyle and delaying age age, it's nice to know that these two-minute walks are worth it.

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