文章大意:本文为一篇说明文。美国卫生与公众服务部建议成年人每周至少进行150分钟的中强度至高强度的体育活动,并且每次应该有至少10分钟的爆发性运动,以获得实质性的健康益处,这导致许多人怀疑短暂运动的无效性,因此可能放弃运动。犹他大学进行的一项研究表明,目前的10分钟运动指南是基于健康益处而不是体重结果,要预防体重增加,累计的少于10分钟的高强度运动爆发也是非常有效的,每分钟的运动都很重要。
2 . The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recommends that adults do at least 150 minutes of moderate to higher-intensity physical activity each week, and it should be in ________ of at least 10 minutes each for substantial health benefits, which has led many to ________ about the inefficacy of brief activities. Why people take two minutes going up the stairs if more than 10 minutes is ________ to make it worthwhile for health?
But now a study suggests something else: go ahead, take the stairs! Every minute ________ toward reaching the 150-minute goal, whether it’s part of a 10-minute period of activity or not. The purpose of the study conducted at the University of Utah was to see if moderate to vigorous physical activity in less than 10-minute episodes was ________ to weight outcomes. The study, published in the American Journal of Health Promotion, found that each minute spent ________ in some kind of moderate to vigorous physical activity — be it walking the dog, vacuuming, or taking the stairs — was associated with lower BMI and lower weight.
“The idea here is, you can do a minute at a time and that’s not a problem,” Jessie Fan, lead author of the new paper and a family and consumer studies professor at the University of Utah, told Today.
For the women who participated in the study, each minute spent in higher-intensity activity was associated with a 0.7 drop in body mass index (BMI). For a 5'4" woman, that means a ________ of nearly half a pound, which may not sound like much, but that’s just for one minute. Little by little, they add up.
The authors concluded that the current 10-minute ________ guideline was based on health benefits other than weight outcomes and that their findings showed that for weight gain ________, accumulated higher-intensity physical activity bouts of less than 10 minutes are quite ________, supporting the message that “every minute counts.”
When it comes to your brain, it also rings true. An April 2019 study in Jama Network Open looked at how exercise affected the brain, and even short bursts ________ 22% greater brain volume.
“Our study results don’t ________ moderate or vigorous physical activity as being important for healthy ageing. We are just adding to the science, ________ that light-intensity physical activity might be important too, especially for the brain,” Dr. Nicole Spartarno, first author of the study from Boston University said.
“I think it’s easier for people to ________ that message,” Fan says. “Otherwise, if they don’t have a block of time they might be ________, and they don’t do anything.”
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