The Star: March 03, 2022

SENIORS’ LIVING LIFE
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Thursday March 3 2022 The Star 19
Exercise very effective against
covid – landmark study
Regular physical activity cuts the risk
of dying from infectious diseases such
as covid by 37 percent and reduces the
chance of catching the virus by 31 per
cent, according to new global research.
The findings have already gone to
the Scottish government and other
governments around world as well as
public health experts and healthcare
professionals.
ExerciseNZ chief executive Richard
Beddie, who has worked a lot with
the World Health Organisation and
given exercise talks in many countries,
appealed to talk to the government about
making New Zealanders healthier and
safer in covid.
“The researchers in this
groundbreaking study found regular
exercise where people can boost their
immunity is what all New Zealanders
want to know,” Beddie says.
“They also confirmed that if people
add physical activity to their vaccination
programme it increases the potency of
the vaccination. If exercise was a pill, we
would be publicly funding it and sending
it to every New Zealander as a part of the
covid public health prevention strategy.”
The research carried out by an
international team of researchers, led by
Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU),
also found that physical activity can
boost the effectiveness of vaccines by up
to 40 per cent.
GCU conducted a review of 16,698
worldwide epidemiological studies
published between January 1980 and
April 2020 along with world-renowned
immunologists and epidemiologists
from University College London and
Ghent University in Belgium, exercise
and sports scientists from Cádiz
University in Spain and a public health
consultant from NHS Lanarkshire.
The research found that 30 minutes
of activity five days a week or 150
minutes a week that gets people slightly
out of breath such as walking, running,
cycling, and strengthening exercises can
have a massive impact on immunity to
infectious diseases such as covid.
The research study have been
published in the Sports Medicine journal
and the report says physical activity
strengthens the first line of defence of
the human immune system and a higher
concentration of immune cells in the
world’s first study into the link between
exercise and covid immunity.
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