10 minutes of exercise = hour-long effects

Does this mean we can get away with just 10 minutes of brisk exercise a day? Do we really need to exercise for hours on end to gain the benefits on our health and fitness levels? A new study looking at metabolic profiling has found some interesting facts. Namely -

Study: 10 minutes of exercise, hour-long effects - Yahoo! News

"Ten minutes of exercise has at least an hour of effects on your body," says Gerszten, who found some of the metabolic changes that began after 10 minutes on the treadmill still were measurable 60 minutes after people cooled down.

Obviously the study is just a first of many that will need to be peformed to test the theory across a multiple range of body shape / size / age and a multitude of other factors, but it is interesting nonetheless.