,,Many Marathon Runners Don't Live Up To 60"

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Nobert


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Like em joints, the heart gives up.
 
Nutrition is rarely mentioned. Runners tend to be carb (over)loaders. Very bad for the heart.

It was a surprise when Jim Fixx died in his early 50s of a heart attack. He wrote the book on running and was on the box of Wheaties. Eating all that cereal probably didn’t help.

In the 1980s I remember reading about the eating regimen of marathoners and it was routine advice to eat a loaf of wheat bread per day. Not good.
 
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Nutrition is rarely mentioned. Runners tend to be carb (over)loaders. Very bad for the heart.

It was a surprise when Jim Fixx died in his early 50s of a heart attack. He wrote the book on running and was on the box of Wheaties. Eating all that cereal probably didn’t help.

In the 1980s I remember reading about the eating regimen of marathoners and it was routine advice to eat a loaf of wheat bread per day. Not good.
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I don't think the Wheaties do people in. Not that I'm a proponent of processed cereals or refined carbs. Rather, I think the J-shaped association between exercise and its benefits is what does the hardcore people in, be it cardio or otherwise.
 
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It is really a good example of how to lie with statistics and a headline.

"The overall, male, and female death rates for the 10-year period were 0.75 (95% confidence interval [CI], 0.38-1.13), 0.98 (95% CI, 0.48-1.36), and 0.41 (95% CI, 0.21-0.79) deaths per 100,000 finishers, respectively. There was no change in the death rate during this time period for overall, male, or female groups (P = .860, .533, and .238, respectively). The median age among deaths was 41.5 years (interquartile range, 25.5 years). Fifty percent (14/28) of deaths occurred in participants less than 45 years old. Myocardial infarction/atherosclerotic heart disease caused 93% (13/14) of deaths in those 45 years and older. A variety of conditions caused death in younger racers, the most common being cardiac arrest not otherwise specified (21%, n = 3)."

Real headline would be:
"Study finds barely anyone that finishes a marathon dies but if they do, the median age is 41.5"
 
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Marathon runners are probably risk takers too. After all running that much is not small feat. So it isn't necessary running too much what killed them early.

I keep telling you guys there is one key to long life: moderation. Don't run marathons, jog 5 miles (10 miles a week), you will live longer.
 
I mostly run on the tennis courts. Otherwise I walk, half of the time uphill. Pretty good exercise, I don't even like to go downhill, I do that backward, to preserve the knees.
 
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