Ask most physically fit people how they stay healthy, and they will likely say they spend hours in the gym.
But new research suggests that simply choosing to skip the elevator or escalator in favor of climbing the stairs every day could help you to live a longer life.
Researchers at the University of East Anglia in the UK, analyzed data from nine studies involving more than 450,000 people.
Overall, they found that those who took the stairs ‘regularly’ had a 39 percent lower risk of dying from heart disease than those who did not.
Over the 14 years participants were tracked, stair users were also
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