[HIGHLIGHTS] Women need to exercise much less than men for the same health benefits

400,000 people took part in the study over 20 years. A US-Chinese project examined the positive effects of sport, with a focus on life expectancy.

Men achieved a maximum reduction in the risk of death if they did around 300 minutes of physical exercise per week. Women only needed 140 minutes to do this, as the group led by Martha Gulati from the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles reported in the specialist magazine “Journal of the American College of Cardiology” (» JACC)