Do high levels of exercise offset a poor diet?
Do high levels of exercise offset a poor diet?
New research has found that high levels of physical activity do not counteract the detrimental effects of a poor diet on mortality risk.
The University of Sydney led study found participants who had both high levels of physical activity and a high-quality diet had the lowest risk of death, showing that you cannot ‘’outrun” a poor diet.
Published today in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, the researchers examined the independent and joint effects of diet and physical activity with all-cause, cardiovascular disease and cancer mortality using a large population-based sample (360,600) of British adults from the UK Biobank. The UK Biobank is a large-scale biomedical cohort study containing in-depth biological, behavioural, and health information from participants.
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