health

Do the Math: Running Adds Years to Your Life

May 4, 2012

A Danish study published today shows men can add 6.2 years (and women 5.6 years) to their life if they jog 1-2.5 hours per week.

Let’s do the math.

6.2 years = 54,348.0392 hours.

If you run 2 hours a week, that’s 104 hours per year. Say you start running at 35 and run for the next 40 years. That’s just 4,160 hours invested for 54,348 gained, netting over 50,000 hours.

And of course there’s the higher quality of life you’ll be living during all 40+ of those years.

No brainer, people. Get out there and run!

Food and Feet

January 20, 2011

A couple of interesting studies I came across in this morning’s reading that provide some useful info for runners and athletes of all stripes. First, on the whole vegetarianism/omnivorism thing, Denise Minger, of destroying the China Study fame, has a very interesting blog post that shows how studies of vegetarianism’s health benefits rarely do true [...]

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Let’s hear it for proprioception!

September 11, 2010

Fascinating study recently published by the USA Track and Field Association, as reported in the New York Times. The upshot: 16% of people who stretch before running get injuries, compared with 16% who do not stretch… While that is interesting (that 16% of runners get injured over a 3-month period, no matter what their pre-run [...]

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Blame the Cupcake

May 17, 2010

Last week, when I was mowing the lawn for the first time in a very long time (my phenomenally responsible son does it for us each week), I wasn’t paying attention and screwed off the oil reservoir lid instead of the gas tank lid and started pouring in the gas. Luckily, only a little bit [...]

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Good News, Bad News

August 11, 2009

Cover story on this week’s TIME magazine proclaims that exercise does not contribute to weight loss. Sure, we all know/knew this. But did we need to be reminded? It’s hard enough to get out there three times a week. At least there was the dim hope that maybe this was helping you edge, ever so [...]

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