7 Minutes of Exercise a Week

Some British researchers found that just working out 7 minutes a week can cause an improvement in how the body uses insulin to clear out blood sugar from the blood stream.

But the catch is that the 7 minutes had to be intense:

The volunteers, who were relatively out of shape but otherwise healthy, rode an exercise bike four times daily in 30 second spurts two days a week.

The volunteers did this for 2 weeks before getting tested again.

Although this is some good news, let's not get to excited. This study was only showing the effects of a small vigorous exercise routine on how insulin would react. This study doesn't say either way whether it had any effect on fat loss, blood pressure, cholesterol levels, etc.

It's a good place to start though. If we can get people to workout just 7 minutes a week to improve their insulin reactions, then we might be able to gradually get them up to working out even more for fat loss.

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