Experts have long suggested that you can’t run your way out of a bad diet, but it appears you can eat your way to better fitness: a study has found that a good diet delivers a boost equivalent to walking thousands of extra steps a day.
Research involving more than 2,000 middle-aged adults in the United States found those with high-quality diets fared best on a fitness test, even after accounting for their usual exercise routines.
“This study provides some of the strongest and most rigorous data thus far to support the connection that better diets may lead to higher fitness,” Dr Michael Mi, the study author from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, said. “The improvement in fitness we observed in participants with
