Briefly walking up a steep hill counts as exercise. Image courtesy of Greg Balfour Evans/Alam
Joel
Kontinen
Want to stay
fit and keep your dementia away? A new study shows that you can keep dementia away by just four minutes of vigorous exercise.
If you are given the choice of the stairs or an elevator (or perhaps a cable car), consider taking the stairs
Less than 4
minutes of physical exertion a day – such as rushing for the bus or carrying
heavy shopping – could halve your dementia risk. People who engaged in short
bursts of vigorous movement were up to 48 per cent less likely to develop the
condition than their sedentary counterparts in a large study.
“These
brief bursts of higher-intensity daily activities are in every nook and cranny
of our day-to-day routines, so this creates a really exciting and viable
opportunity to find new ways for the everyday person to protect their health,”
says Nicholas Koemel at the University of Sydney, who
parks his car in a distant space when he gets to work so he has to walk
further.
Source:
Chris
Simms 2026
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