Regular exercise ‘makes you 14 years younger’

REGULAR exercise reverses the body clock by 14 years, a report on sporting activity in Ireland has revealed.

Regular exercise ‘makes you 14 years younger’

Even playing sport in the past is good for a person’s current health — it is the equivalent, in health terms, to being three years younger.

And the report by the Economic and Social Research Board and the Irish Sports Council argues that is wrong to blame a fall-off in the take-up of sport and recreational exercise for Ireland’s overweight and obesity problems.

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