If you don’t have time to do the recommended 30 minutes daily exercise, 15 minutes can still be beneficiary, according to a study published Tuesday in The Lancet, a British medical journal.



Conducted by Taiwanese researchers, the study tracked 416, 175 people for 12 years and found that people doing15 minutes of exercise a day had a 14 percent lower risk of death and three years more life expectancy than those who did no exercise.

The fitness guidelines of the World Health Organization recommend adults get at least a half-hour of moderate exercise most days of the week or 150 minutes weekly exercise. But in China and Japan, less than one-fifth of the population meets the goal, according to Bloomberg reports.

"Finding a slot of 15 minutes is much easier than finding a 30-minute slot in most days of the week,” said Dr. Chi-Pang Wen, lead author of the study. The 15-minute exercises may be brisk walking, bike riding, or even digging the garden, researchers said.

The researchers also found the more exercise, the better. Each additional 15 minutes of exercise reduced the risk of death by another 4 percent compared with those who did no exercise.

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