You don’t even have to work up a sweat. Just standing at your desk instead of sitting can help reduce the risk of heart disease. New research, published Monday in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, suggests that even minimal exercise can significantly improve one’s cardiovascular health.
The report, “Exercise at the Extremes,” sought to examine past research which suggested that very intense exercise, such as training for a marathon, was as bad for one’s heart as not exercising at all.
On that front, the report, led by Dr. Thijs M.H. Eijsvogels, of Liverpool John Moores University in Liverpool, U.K., found that the benefits of intense exercise were likely greater than the drawbacks.
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