The more you move, the slower you age. That’s the conclusion of a new study by researchers at Stanford University. The BBC reports that scientists studied 500 older runners, all of whom were in their 50s at the start of the project, and tracked them for more than 20 years, comparing them to a similar
group of non-runners. Nineteen years into the study, 34 percent of the non-runners had died compared to only 15 percent of the runners. Both groups became more disabled with age, but for the runners the
onset of disability started an average of 16 years later. The BBC reports that the health gap between the runners and non-runners continued to widen even as the subjects entered their ninth decade of life.
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the results should not suprise anyone. “Use or lose it” is an old admonition. The non-runners probably engaged in behaviors that helped to shorten their lives…ie eating too much for their activities. Also what about swimmers and bikers? I just finished a 20 mile ride and will probably swim later on today also. The payback on any endurance activity should produce almost the same results. any comments? The best approach is a combo of all three displines. Whadda think America?
If you don’t keep moving, something will catch you (diabetes, obesity, arthritis, alzheimers’, heart disease, high blood pressure, and much, much more)!