Active Men Break Fewer Bones

The next time you decide not to play whatever sport because you don’t want to risk breaking bones, read the study that was recently done at Uppsala University in Uppsala, Sweden. It strongly suggests  that men who maintain the highest levels of
activity have the fewer fractures than their more sedentary peers. The New York Times reports on research, which studied health records of 2,205 men beginning at age 49 to 51, and then
followed them for up to 35 years, during which 482 men had at least one
fracture. The men were interviewed and examined again at ages 60, 70,
77 and 82. At each of the five interviews, the scientists posed the same questions
about watching television and movies, engaging in other sedentary
activities, walking or cycling for pleasure, and engaging in sports.
They also administered exercise tests and performed muscle biopsies to
measure physical fitness, confirming that the men who reported higher
levels of exercise were in fact more fit. The paper reports that researchers found that the men who maintained the highest levels of
activity had the fewest fractures, and that those with the lowest
levels had the most. Read more in the New York Times.