The bad: You need more than 20 minutes of daily exercise to cut down on reducing death and disease. The good news: it doesn't matter if exercise is broken down into short bursts of activity throughout the day, according to a new study published in the Journal of the American Heart Association. Kraus and researchers from the National Cancer Institute studied how relevant is the duration of exercise matters in our long-term health. Kraus and his team found that sustaining bouts of physical activity played no factor in overall health. The accumulated minutes of exercise had the same benefit, regardless of whether the physical activity was performed in short bursts throughout the day or in concentrated sessions that were at least 5 or 10 minutes in duration.

Source: Fox News March 26, 2018 20:26 UTC