Please note the question mark and the "may". They're both important.
The Exercise Equivalent of a Cheeseburger?
New Research Says Endurance Running May Damage Health
What the actual research "suggests" is that endurance exercise is good for you, but maybe only up to a point.
That benefit may disappear beyond 30 miles of running a week, suggest recent research.
As for me, I don't average anything near that mileage. So I'm not going to sweat this.
Besides, are cheeseburgers really so bad for you?
As the cynical saying has it: Eat right. Exercise religiously. Die anyway.
If a newspaper's health advice seems strange,
wait till next week - it will probably change.
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I can be accused of a certain level of cynicism, but that sort of diet/exercise defeatism confounds me. It's about quality of life, not duration.
p.s. When I was a kid, the WSJ had no color, no photographs, and no outsized or sensationalist headlines. Good ol' days.
I remember that version of WSJ too. They would have line drawings at times.
And, I agree it's crazy to ignore quality of life. It's not like most people choose their exercise regimens by running equations to optimize medical impact, either.
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