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Apr 11, 2008 10:28 am US/Mountain

Study: Exercise Can Reverse Aging Effects

Reporting
Dr. Dave Hnida
(CBS4) A new study finds aerobic exercise, including walking, can turn back time by as much as 12 to 15 years as people age, Dr. Dave Hnida reports. Any workout helps, but the more intense, the better the benefits.

The study from Britain found people can give a 60-year-old the body of the 40-something-year-old by getting out and getting some exercise.

The research confirms the long held belief that changes associated with aging cannot only be slowed, but reversed if people get moving.

The reason: many of the changes that happen in aging come from inactivity.

At age 50 or 60, people can obviously never get back to age 25. Even at 40, people will never get back to age 25, but they can cut the gap quite a bit by getting off the couch and staying active.

Hnida notes that no exercise will help people avoid reading glasses in the 40s and 50s.

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