Reluctant joggers, here’s some encouragement: Running even once a week has some benefits.
According to a new study, running 50 minutes a week, at a pace between a 10- and 7.5-minute mile, helped reduce the risk of death from cancer, cardiovascular disease and other causes. Working out more than that didn’t convey significantly more health benefits, say the researchers, based on a review of over a dozen studies.
The results could be encouraging for people who find that they don’t have much time to work out, writes study coauthor Zeljko Pedisic, a public health researcher at Australia’s Victoria University, in an email.
Because running is a popular form of physical activity, Pedisic and his colleagues chose to take a birds-eye view and assess what previous studies of running and risk of death had concluded. The team collected 14 papers that collectively studied over 230,000 people for the effects of running ...
