Jogging for just an hour a week can increase your life expectancy by around six years, reveal scientists.

Even better news is that a gentle jog is better for you than any sort of extreme workout, the study concludes.

The results challenge previous studies into jogging which questioned whether it is healthy or hazardous, with the debate kicking off in the 70s when middle aged men began taking an interest in the exercise. However, following the death of a few men who died while out on a run, the media suggested jogging might be too strenuous for middle aged people, casting doubts over the past-time.

As part of the Copenhagen City Heart study, a cardiovascular study of around 20,000 men and women aged 20 to 93, researchers set about quashing previous suggestions that jogging is bad for people's health. The study has so far resulted in over 750 papers, and has previously explored associations for longevity with different forms of exercise and other factors. Researchers believe jogging delivers multiple health benefits, improving oxygen uptake, lowering blood pressure, preventing obesity, improving cardiac function and improving psychological function, as well as many more benefits.

Actually,  jogging or running is a whole body movement, which enables the body’s muscles rhythmic contraction and relaxation, so that muscle fiber dimension increased, protein content increased. While jogging we need to take a portable silicone water bottle in case that we sweat a lot, this step increases our body’s metabolism, and improve blood circulation, increase the supply of nutrients in bone cells and increase bone cell growth capacity for the young. And the elderly, reduced metabolism, muscle gradually shrink, and bones appeared back line of change in bone and joint disease is also increasing. Persistence in running can enhance metabolism, delayed bone degenerative changes, prevention of bone and joint disease in the elderly occur, so that you slow down aging.

Six years life, just one hour jogging / running, why not? Just wear your sports equipment, take a silicone water bottle with water, and put down your electronic products, and go outdoor jogging, just one hour may change your life.