"Bad" cholestorol decreases with moderate exercise
Women who do extra hour a week of moderate physical activity had lower levels of harmful cholesterol than those who didn't US research has revealed. The nine-year study of almost 9,000 fairly sedentary middle-aged adults revealed that each hour of moderate exercise or half-hour of vigorous activity was associated with a decrease of almost 4 milligrams per deciliter of LDL, or "bad", cholesterol.
The study is one of the first to find a link between exercise and significant decreases in LDL, according to lead author Keri L. Monda. The study did not find the decreases in men, however.
“It doesn’t matter if you’re premenopausal or postmenopausal,” Monda said. “It’s important to exercise, and you don’t have to do that much to get systemwide benefits.”