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Taking a walk a day isn't going to offset sitting on your ass for all of your other waking hours. Unless you're walking constantly, but that makes it rather di
by stevenwei 14y ago
Taking a walk a day isn't going to offset sitting on your ass for all of your other waking hours.
Unless you're walking constantly, but that makes it rather difficult to work at your computer...
- meaty 14y agoDepends how far you walk. Too much exercise decreases your lifespan as much as too little.
- jfoutz 14y agoWow, I'd really like to read more about that. The the most things that kill americans are, Heart Disease, Cancer, Respiratory disease, and exercise helps with all of those. Suicide is in the top 10, and exercise helps depression. Any amount of exercise is better for lifespan than no exercise. I'm willing to accept the possibility that there is an inflection point out there somewhere. However this sort of assertion without any evidence at all seems like something you made up. I'd really love to see any evidence at all that to much walking decreases lifespan.
- meaty 14y agoGoogle for professional athlete lifespan.
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- jfoutz 14y agoNot sure what you want me to be googling for. all the studies point to longer lifespan. "In conclusion, this study found that overall, professional football players had a 46% lower overall mortality rate than the general United States male population with a similar age and race distribution" http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/sports/28longman.pdf http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/sports/28longman.p... and there is a massive difference between professional athlete and your claim of "getting to much exercise"
- stevenwei 14y agoI don't think it's remotely sensible to compare the types of exercise professional atheletes endure to walking.