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This headline and article may be right in spirit, but are obviously wrong in letter. And we do ourselves a disservice calling this oversimplification news. If y
by peterlk 8y ago
This headline and article may be right in spirit, but are obviously wrong in letter. And we do ourselves a disservice calling this oversimplification news. If you run/bike/whatever too hard for too long, you die. Plain and simple. Obviously, almost no one reading this article would ever be in danger of doing such a thing, but there is obviously an upper bound to how much exercise a human can perform. For those who don't feel like reading the article, the claim is that running is good for you, and that those who claim running too much can harm your health are wrong.
- gmiller123456 8y agoI suppose it's theoretically possible to perform some type of exercise until you die. It's also a lot more likely that exercise will strain your heart enough to cause a heart attack, or some other injury that leads to death. What the study is saying is that even accounting for all of those situations that actually happened, the odds are still in your favor to exercise more. So the odds are, you won't exercise until you die.
- stevewodil 8y ago>So the odds are, you won't exercise until you die. How did you know this about me?
- gmiller123456 8y agoStatistics say nothing about individuals. I cannot say you won't exercise until you die, but I can say there's a very low probability you will.
- hnbroseph 8y agoyou could drink so much water that you die, as well. but... should we carefully note this every time someone says to drink a lot of water?
- cbluth 8y agoYou could inhale too much air too, your lungs aren't balloons, man!