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Run for Your Life? Right!
medpagetoday.com ^ | Crystal Phend

Posted on 07/30/2014 6:59:20 PM PDT by RoosterRedux

Running for even 5 to 10 minutes a day, once or twice a week, or at slow speeds was associated with substantial mortality benefits over 15 years, a prospective study showed.

Runners overall had 30% and 45% lower adjusted risks of all-cause and cardiovascular disease mortality, respectively, over that period and had 3 years longer life expectancy compared with nonrunners, Duck-chul Lee, PhD, of Iowa State University in Ames, and colleagues found.

Running for less than 60 minutes a week -- averaging out to about 8 minutes a day -- was associated with an odds ratios of 0.73 for death from any cause (95% CI 0.61-0.86) and 0.46 for cardiovascular mortality (95% CI 0.33-0.65) compared with nonrunners after adjustment for other factors, including total physical activity from other leisure-time activities.

The associations were also significant at the lowest quintiles of weekly running distance (less than 6 miles), frequency (one to two times), amount (under 506 metabolic equivalent of task or MET-minutes), and speed (less than 6 miles/hour), the group reported in the August 5 issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

"This study may motivate healthy but sedentary individuals to begin and continue running for substantial and attainable mortality benefits," Lee and colleagues suggested.

(Excerpt) Read more at medpagetoday.com ...


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1 posted on 07/30/2014 6:59:20 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux
I don't run, but my job requires me to hike (fast) about 10 miles a day on uneven terrain with a heavy backpack filled with water and all kinds of junk. Gotta say, I've never been more fit in my life!

Which means I'll get hit by a bus...

2 posted on 07/30/2014 7:16:17 PM PDT by Flycatcher (God speaks to us, through the supernal lightness of birds, in a special type of poetry.)
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To: RoosterRedux
“Running for even 5 to 10 minutes a day, once or twice a week, or at slow speeds was associated with substantial mortality benefits over 15 years, a prospective study showed.” Chrystal Phend? My gosh, I have a strange name but that is, well, never mind. This is a joke, right? You need to take a course in college level writing. Mortality benefits? Just what I want!
3 posted on 07/30/2014 7:16:59 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: RoosterRedux
These 2 geniuses were running for their lives the other day....

2 women miss being struck by train on bridge:
https://search.yahoo.com/search?ei=utf-8&fr=slv1-msgr&p=women%20tracks%20train%20bridge&type=

4 posted on 07/30/2014 7:32:54 PM PDT by ETL 2
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To: Fungi
Which means I'll get hit by a bus...

Or a train!

See my last post.

5 posted on 07/30/2014 7:34:46 PM PDT by ETL 2
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To: ETL 2

That’s called intense motivation. You can bet the blaring air horn added encouragement.


6 posted on 07/30/2014 8:07:44 PM PDT by meatloaf
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To: RoosterRedux

Runners Shown To Have 100% Mortality Rate

pictures at eleven


7 posted on 07/31/2014 2:06:44 AM PDT by glock rocks (If you like your health plan, you're a racist !)
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To: RoosterRedux

Don’t you just love these studies that state things like this: “...over that period and had 3 years longer life expectancy compared with nonrunners....”

So, this study actually came up with this totally fictitious and imagined lifespan study? Even an idiot could see the irony and false claim.

Did these career students and make-believe artists actually perform this study over a period of 60 to 80 years? Hell no!

Basic common sense would tell that to make a factual study of a controlled group would actually take a lifetime...and this sure as hell didn’t.

I’ve become tired of these claims based upon assumptions and falsified computer models by people who think they can make gold from lead.


8 posted on 07/31/2014 3:55:33 AM PDT by DH (Once the tainted finger of government touches anything the rot begins)
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