A June 2021 study at the University of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania said,
"The current American Heart Association guidelines for diagnosing high blood pressure and cholesterol recognize that otherwise healthy individuals with mildly or moderately elevated levels of these cardiovascular risk factors should actively attempt to reduce these risks. The first treatment strategy for many of these patients should be healthy lifestyle changes beginning with increasing physical activity,"
"Increasing physical activity can help lower blood pressure and cholesterol, along with many other health benefits."
"Every little bit of activity is better than none,”
"Even small initial increases of 5 to 10 minutes a day can yield health benefits."
"In our world where physical activity is increasingly engineered out of our lives and the overwhelming default is to sit - and even more so now as the nation and the world is practicing quarantine and isolation to reduce the spread of coronavirus - the message that we must be relentless in our pursuit to 'sit less and move more' throughout the day is more important than ever,"