Professor Tim Spector has shared an exercise that is 'better than gym' for living longer. On a podcast, he revealed that gardening can help you live a lot longer.
Dan Buettner, an American National Geographic fellow who has written about long-lived communities around the world, joined him on the ZOE Science and Nutrition podcast.
Buettner said that people who live the longest often love gardening. He explained: "Almost everybody who is making it into their nineties and hundreds, not only garden their whole life but continue to do so.
And it might be because it’s low-intensity physical activity." Read more: 'I stopped at the "best motorway services in the UK" and we didn't want to leave' He added: "When you have a garden and you've planted something you can't wait to eat.
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