Posted on 03/20/2004 4:45:19 PM PST by Libloather
Edited on 04/13/2004 1:42:09 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
SAN ANSELMO, Calif. (AP)
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George Sheehan (another running guru contemporary with Jim Fixx) died of pancreatic cancer. Somebody said a jogger jogs for his health, but a runner runs even if he thinks it might kill him.
Yep. I'll never forget what my mother said from the hospital bed after finding out that she needed a quintuple bypass. She always took good care of herself, saw doctors regularly, didn't smoke, and only drank lightly at social events ... basically she did everything right. She pointed to my dad at the end of her bed and said, "I should have smoked and drank all my life, for all the good it did me". My dad was a smoker, poker player, and drinker.
Unfortunately, my mom did not survive the bypass surgery. Undetected fatty deposits in her heart walls ruptured about 12 hrs after surgery. She was 64. Using the genealogy tools on the internet, I looked back through her family's history and found that most of them died between 55 and 65. It was genetics.
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Bingo!
After all the research that indicates the more calories you intake, the more you wear out the machine that is your body, I have to wonder about long distance runners. They HAVE to make up, to some degree, for their calorie-burning by ingesting large amounts of calories. Doing that for years on end and all that shock to the body(running) would seem to cut into a long lifespan.
better to do short distance running, weights, etc than be a thin, unhealthy looking 140 lb marathon runner.
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