Originally Posted by
Stucky
I haven't kept statistics or anything....but it seems to me, that most athletes either die rather young, or end up with lots of problems later in life.
No, it's exactly the opposite. Studies show we get back about 7 minutes of additional lifespan for every minute spent exercising:
Every Minute Of Exercise Could Lengthen Your Life Seven Minutes | CommonHealth
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Originally Posted by
Stucky
Trouble with most medical studies and such, is that they treat all humans as being exactly the same. We're not. To ignore genetics and metabolism, and other such personal differences, is tantamount to making such studies absolutely meaningless. Some of our body composition/health/metabolic rate/etc. comes from what we do.....but more comes from who our mommy and daddy and grandpappy are- and IMHO, it's downright foolish and counterproductive to try and fight your genetics.
Coming from a family of slow metabolism long-livers, I think I'd be doing myself HARM if I exercised to the point where I sped-up my metabolism.
No, they don't treat all humans as being alike. Epidemiological studies try to establish probabilities that certain things are linked. They do not attempt to establish cause and effect for individuals. Rather they say that, if you smoke, you are likely to shorten your life. Not the every life will be shortened, but that there is a non-zero increased probability that it will be shortened. They establish that if you exercise, there is a probability that your life will be lengthened, not that every exerciser will live a longer life.