Gentle daily exercise is as good for elderly men as stopping smoking

Thirty minutes of physical activity six days a week in older age is linked to a 40% lower risk of death from any cause, which is as beneficial as giving up smoking, a study published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine has found.1

The researchers based their findings on 5738 Norwegian men who first enrolled in the Oslo I study in 1972-3, during which they had a full health check and completed a survey about their weekly …