Simply put, by adopting a running program, you could add years to your life and perhaps quality too. The Findings are based on a study by the Stanford University School of Medicine, which tracked 500 older runners over a 20 year period. The findings revealed that older runners have fewer disabilities, longer life spans and only half the risk of early death as non-runners.
This is an important lesson that often is lost among many, if not most of us. When we think of aging, we are apt to equate it with cancer and other chronic diseases. But aging and disease don’t necessarily go hand in hand.
One other basic reality of human life many of us tend to overlook is that we are natural born runners. In other words, we humans were programmed from an early stage of our development to run. Fitness experts stress that we are creatures of mobility.
So, will strenuous physical activity help us live to be 150? No. But by helping us ward off many chronic diseases associated with obesity and sedentary lifestyles, strenuous exercise may secure an excellent quality of life all the way up to age 90 and possibly even to 100.
What ever regimen you choose to adopt, just remember that the federal guidelines for exercise are only minimal recommendations. All of us can do much more in terms of exercise to keep ourselves healthier and possibly even to extend the length of our lives.
Simply put, we should be running for our lives!!
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