More Sports from younger, more health by the elderly: the correlation is served - Italian Weather Center

January 3, 2014 – 09:07

Playing sports is good, we know. And ‘one of the first pieces of advice that is given to children when school begins to take gymnastics and many other sports activities, often with parents and teachers to motivate physical activity outside the school context. But a search of these days, emerging data that encourage even more people to careers amateur sports or otherwise, in fact, seems to stay in shape during the years of high school, it also helps to age better, coming in splendid condition of health over 70 years. Were researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich to demonstrate this important relationship: examining 712 veterans of World War II, with an average age of 78 years, it has been noted that those who practiced consistently high school sports over the years, enjoyed a health far greater than that of those who had fasting gyms or swimming pools.

Sports from young, healthy from old. Photo source: quenotervista.org

Of course, one must also take into account other factors, such as smoking (in fact, many had the habit of blondes and have in fact undermined the benefits of being physically active), the hygienic conditions, as well as the quality of life in the city of origin. In short, several factors taken into consideration, but the end result is unique: if you do sports to young people, ages better.