Light Exercise is Good

Health authorities recommend that older individuals participate in 2½ hours of exercise per week. That can be a discouraging number since most of us consider exercise of that sort to require going to the gym or jogging in the neighborhood. But that is a misconception.

What is termed light exercising such as walking and gardening can also be beneficial.

Experts say you can get the same benefit as more strenuous activity by engaging in light exercise of this sort (including slow dancing!) but you would need to double your time commitment to a total of 5 hours each week.