Racquet sports like tennis and badminton are the most effective at keeping a person health in older age, a new study finds.Researchers from the National Cancer Institute (NCI), a part of the National Institutes of Health, found that regularly playing a sport like tennis for at least 2.5 hours each week between ages 59 and 82 could reduce a person's all-cause risk of death 16 percent. Running was linked with a 15 percent drop.The team found that all physical activity - cycling, swimming, aerobic exercise, golf and even simply walking - had some sort of benefit for reducing risk of death in older people. The least effective, cycling, even reduced risk of death by three percent.
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