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Exercising during your off-hours can reduce your chances of death by as much as 40%.  Ironically, though, high physical exertion at work actually increases your death risk by 27%.  Danish researchers present these conclusions after studying the mortality data from a cohort of 104,046 Danes and tabulating it with self-reported physical activity during leisure time and at work.

 

Compared with those reporting little leisure activity, those with moderate and high or very high physical exertion experienced 26% and 40% reduced risks of death from coronary events and stroke.  Work activity was unhelpful, and those with high and very high exertion at work were 13% and 27% more likely to die.

 

https://academic.oup.com/eurheartj/advance-article/doi/10.1093/eurheartj/ehab087/6213772

 

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