According to the BBC, this conclusion was reached by an international team of specialists from Taiwan and the United States under the leadership of Chi Pang Wen (Chi Pang Wen). A report on their work was published in The Lancet.

The study involved more than 416 thousand people in Taiwan, including almost 217 thousand women. All of them in the period from 1996 to 2008 participated in screening programs of public health services. On average, scientists watched each participant for just over eight years.

According to the duration of the physical exercises performed by volunteers during the week, they were divided into five groups: from completely inactive to those who show high activity. After that, researchers compared the risk of death in different groups, and also calculated the average life expectancy for each of them.

According to the results of the work, the minimum active participants engaged in physical education on average 92 minutes per week (at least 15 minutes per day).

The average life expectancy in this group exceeded the same indicator for inactive volunteers by three years. In addition, in the latter, the risk of death from any cause was higher than that of the former by 17 percent.

The researchers also found that every additional quarter of an hour of exercise per day (in addition to the minimum 15 minutes) reduces the risk of death from any cause by four percent, and from all types of cancer by one percent.

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