How Running Helps You Live Longer

People who want to live a long and healthy life might want to take up running.

A study published on Monday shows middle-aged members of a runner's club were half as likely to die over a 20-year period as people who did not run.

Running reduced the risk not only of heart disease, but of cancer and neurological diseases such as Alzheimer's, researchers at Stanford University in California found.

"At 19 years, 15 percent of runners had died compared with 34 percent of controls," Dr. Eliza Chakravarty and colleagues wrote in the Archives of Internal Medicine.

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Comments

[Seven7s]

Who cares about living longer. Longer is over rated...living HAPPY is what matters.

I'd rather die at 65 from eating too many cheeseburgers then live to be 75 and die in a car accident trying to open a can of V8

[afgail]

Get back to me when you are 65 and see if you still feel the same way. Doubt that you will.

[Ezerbio]

It is not just 65 vs. 75. It is living 20 of those 65 ailing, under medication and constrained or living 75+ and still be healthy and be able to enjoy life

[JBS]

It doesn't really help you live longer, it just SEEMS longer. It's like spending a Sunday afternoon in Philadelphia.

[SShaw490]

I've been a runner for 35 years, and I can't imagine a person going through all of that trouble and discomfort just to live longer. If running makes you live BETTER - which it does for me - get out there and run. If it doesn't, forget about it.

[wellfleetsurf]

Excellent post.