Even though you are old, you still have to exercise to keep your heart healthy.
People in their 50s and 60s can still have hearts as healthy as those 10 years younger through a regular and reasonable aerobic exercise program, even if they have been inactive for a long time.
UPI cited research showing that middle-aged people who exercised four or five days a week, including several days of high-intensity aerobic exercise for two years, significantly reduced heart muscle stiffness.
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| Improving heart flexibility is key to a healthy heart. |
Dr. Benjamin Levine, founder and director of the Institute for Exercise and Environmental Medicine at Texas Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas, explains that a more flexible heart means less risk of heart failure than people of the same age.
Improving heart flexibility is key to a healthy heart in midlife, the right medicine at the right time in life, the study authors say.
A sedentary lifestyle in middle age increases the risk of heart failure by allowing the heart muscle to contract and stiffen, according to researchers.
Dr. Levine says that regular exercise, two or three days a week, simply isn’t enough to preserve the youthfulness of the heart’s structure. That’s not to say that regular exercise isn’t beneficial, but it’s not enough to maintain the heart muscle’s rubbery compliance.
"This exercise program is also combined with a healthy diet to prevent heart disease," says cardiologist Dr. Nieca Goldberg, medical director of the Women's Heart Program at NYU Langone Medical Center in New York.
The study, funded by the US National Institutes of Health, was published online January 8 in the journalCirculation.
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