The Healthy Programmer

The Time of Your Life

The absolute best thing you can do for your health is to be active for at least twenty minutes per day. Why twenty minutes? It’s because the best science we have shows that a person’s risk of dying prematurely from any cause drops by nearly twenty percent with at least twenty minutes of exercise each day.^[25] More specifically, a study from the Biostatistics Center at George Washington University found that a lifestyle intervention including moderate physical activity for at least twenty minutes per day was more effective than the medication metformin alone in reducing the incidence of diabetes.^[26] That kind of research is exactly why the CDC recommends a minimum of 150 minutes of moderate-intensity aerobic activity each ...