People who exercise mainly on the weekends can reap big benefits for their health, including a significantly lower risk of dying from cancer and heart disease than people who don’t exercise at all, researchers say. Currently, experts recommend that people do 150 minutes of moderate physical activity per week, or 75 minutes of vigorous exercise. On average, these weekend warriors tended to be men and averaged 300 minutes of weekly exercise in one or two days, said the study. The risk of cardiovascular death for weekend warriors was 40% lower and the risk of cancer death was 18% lower than among inactive adults. Researchers also cautioned that since 90% of the respondents were white, the benefits of weekend exercise might not be generalisable to the entire population.

Source: Egypt Independent January 21, 2017 11:20 UTC