新奇事件簿 少女时期经常运动可延长寿命（在线收听）

A new study has revealed the importance of exercise for teenage girls. Researchers analysed data from a study conducted in Shanghai on 75,000 women aged between 40 to 70. The team discovered that women who exercised regularly as a teenager were healthier than those who hadn't. The researchers concluded that teenage girls who did a maximum of 80 minutes exercise a week had a 16 per cent lower risk of dying from cancer and other diseases. This percentage went down to 13 for women who exercised more than 80 minutes a week as teenagers. The researchers said that in general, women would live longer if they did just 15 minutes of exercise a day in their teens.

一项最新研究披露了锻炼对少女的重要性。研究人员分析了对上海7.5万名40至70岁的女性进行的研究收集的数据。研究小组发现，少女时期经常运动的女性比不经常运动的女性更健康。研究人员得出结论，每周最多运动80分钟的少女死于癌症和其他疾病的风险降低16%。少女时期每周运动超过80分钟的女性死于癌症和其他疾病的风险低13%。研究人员表示，总的来说，少女时期每天运动15分钟就可以更长寿。

Head researcher Dr Sarah Nechuta said that even if women in their twenties, thirties and forties did not work out, doing exercise as a teen would increase longevity. She said: "In women, adolescent exercise participation, regardless of adult exercise, was associated with reduced risk of cancer and all-cause mortality." She added: "Our results support the importance of promoting exercise participation in adolescence to reduce mortality in later life and highlight the critical need for the initiation of disease prevention early in life." Dr Nechuta said that although the findings were based on data on women in China, the benefits of exercising during the teen years could be applicable to all women anywhere in the world.

首席研究员Sarah Nechuta表示，即使20多岁，30多岁，甚至40多岁时不运动，少女时期时经常运动也可以延长寿命。她说：“对女性来说，青少年时期运动，无论成年后是否运动，都可以降低癌症和其他疾病造成的死亡率。”她补充说：“我们的结果证实，附近青少年参与运动可以降低晚年期的死亡率，凸显了少年时期倡导疾病预防的重要性。”Nechuta博士表示，尽管这些发现是基于来自中国女性的数据，青少年时期运动的益处适用于世界各地的女性。