Sentence examples for modest physical activity from inspiring English sources
Another study that randomly assigned 3,234 prediabetic men and women to modest physical activity (at least 150 minutes a week) found exercise to be more effective than the drug metformin at preventing full-blown diabetes.
Maintenance of this relatively modest physical activity level has the potential to yield important health benefits.
The data suggest that even modest physical activity may cancel out the adverse impact of diabetes on cardiovascular mortality.
Although the effect is relatively modest, physical activity induces a decrease in circulating sex hormones and this effect is not entirely explained by weight loss.
After complete wound healing the patient was allowed to resume modest physical activity with cycling and swimming to regain muscular strength and decrease muscle atrophy.
However, even a modest level of physical activity (2.5 h of modest physical activity per week, which represents energy expenditure of 1,000 kcal/week) was associated with a more favorable biomarker profile in both normal and overweight/obese women.
Regardless of intensity level, correlations were modest between physical activity in the past 10 years and activity from ages 15-18 years (ρ = 0.35 for light activity, ρ = 0.28 for moderate-to-vigorous activity), but were stronger for less distant life periods of activity such as ages 19-29 and 35-39 years (ρ = 0.79 for both light and moderate-to-vigorous activity).
If exercise were a pill, its effectiveness in driving down a woman's breast cancer risk would occur fairly quickly, the new research says: When women reported at least this modest level of physical activity over the last four years, they were less likely to have developed malignancy in a breast.
Even patients with poorer health status benefit from modest increases in physical activity.
This intervention was feasible and prompted a modest increase in physical activity.
