Middle-aged women need to get at least an hour a day of moderate exercise if they hope to ward off the creep of extra pounds that comes with aging.
Already, two-thirds of U.S. adults and nearly one in three children are overweight or obese.
Sheila Anderson, 50, works out at the fitness center three to four times a week, doing 45 minutes of cardiovascular training and a couple of hours a week of weight training.
"Does it strike me as too much?" she said of the finding. "Maybe. It sure is hard to fit in an hour each day. I could not come to the gym seven days a week," she said.
Dr. Michael Roizen, Cleveland Clinic Chief Wellness Officer, answers the question "How much exercise is enough?"
Three parts of exercise have been shown to be beneficial to health:
1. Moving the equivalent to 10,000 steps a day.
2. Resistance exercise for 30 minutes a week.
3. 20 minutes of cardiovascular exercise.
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