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.
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.
ReplyDeletep.s. When I was a kid, the WSJ had no color, no photographs, and no outsized or sensationalist headlines. Good ol' days.
ReplyDeleteI remember that version of WSJ too. They would have line drawings at times.
ReplyDeleteAnd, 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.