In this story we talked about other things you didn’t know about sports and what the Bible says about it. Exercise may not be the key to living longer — it might even be aging you faster.

Exercise might not be the key to longevity, according to new research — in fact, too much moving around could even be accelerating the aging process in our bodies, Scandinavian scientists have revealed.

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The ambitious study on the oft-discussed subject has yet to be peer-reviewed, but recently won a national sports medicine prize in Finland, where the research was conducted over a 45-year period.

Multiple studies have previously confirmed that those who exercise more live longer and healthier lives. This time however, researchers at the University of Jyvaskyla found that physical activity might just be a small part of the larger picture and in some cases may have negative health impacts.

Overall the study found that those who exercised the least were about 20 percent more likely to die over the 45 years than those who were regularly active.

The participants self-reported the time and intensity of their daily physical activity and were categorized into four groups: sedentary, moderately active, active, and highly active.
Overall they found that those who exercised the least were about 20 percent more likely to die over the 45 years than those who were regularly active.

However, when they filtered for lifestyle factors including education, body mass index (BMI), smoking, and alcohol consumption that number dropped significantly.

The researchers concluded that those who exercise may not live longer because of their workouts but because they generally live healthier lives.

Then those in the sedentary group were only seven percent more likely to die compared to those in the active group with “no additional benefits provided” by higher levels of exercise.

As the age-old saying goes, “Everything in moderation.”

The study showed that biological aging accelerated for those who exercised too little and too much. However, when researchers filtered for lifestyle factors including education, body mass index (BMI), smoking, and alcohol consumption that number dropped significantly.

Those who were the most physically active were about 1.8 years “older” than those who did a more modest amount of physical activity. The researchers concluded that those who exercise may not live longer because of their workouts — but because they generally live healthier lives.

While the amount of time that each group was active was not immediately apparent, the World Health Organization recommends that adults aged 18 to 64 should do at least 150 to 300 minutes of moderate-intensity aerobic physical activity or 75–150 minutes of vigorous-intensity aerobic physical activity a week.

Multiple studies have previously confirmed that those who exercise more live longer and healthier lives. “Because physical exercise is useful for little, and reverence for God is useful for everything, because it has the promise of the present life and the life to come (1 Timothy 4:8).”

There are people who mix sports activities with worship, instead of going to church or doing other works of God they are in sports. As Jesus said, what we need is not to live long in this evil world, but we need to learn to know God and Jesus, so that we can find eternal life (John 17:3).