Lack of exercise kills roughly as many as smoking, study says

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People across the world are falling so far short on exercise that the problem has become a global pandemic, causing nearly a tenth of deaths worldwide and killing roughly as many people as smoking, researchers warned this week as an alarming series of studies was published in the Lancet.

Eight out of 10 youngsters age 13 to 15 don’t get enough exercise, according to one of the Lancet studies released Tuesday, and nearly a third of adults fall short. The problem is even worse for girls and women, who are less active than boys and men, researchers found.

The results are fatal. Lack of exercise is tied to worldwide killers such as heart disease, diabetes and breast and colon cancer. If just a quarter of inactive adults got enough exercise, more than 1.3 million deaths could be prevented worldwide annually, researchers said. Half an hour of brisk walking five times a week would do the trick.

Despite its deadly consequences, lack of exercise doesn’t get the same funding or attention as other health problems, said Pedro Hallal, associate professor at the Federal University of Pelotas in Brazil and author of one of the studies.

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Glad I was raised an athlete and my work is manual labor, im doing good!
 
gilliam said:
People across the world are falling so far short on exercise that the problem has become a global pandemic, causing nearly a tenth of deaths worldwide and killing roughly as many people as smoking, researchers warned this week as an alarming series of studies was published in the Lancet.

Eight out of 10 youngsters age 13 to 15 don’t get enough exercise, according to one of the Lancet studies released Tuesday, and nearly a third of adults fall short. The problem is even worse for girls and women, who are less active than boys and men, researchers found.

The results are fatal. Lack of exercise is tied to worldwide killers such as heart disease, diabetes and breast and colon cancer. If just a quarter of inactive adults got enough exercise, more than 1.3 million deaths could be prevented worldwide annually, researchers said. Half an hour of brisk walking five times a week would do the trick.

Despite its deadly consequences, lack of exercise doesn’t get the same funding or attention as other health problems, said Pedro Hallal, associate professor at the Federal University of Pelotas in Brazil and author of one of the studies.

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This is a massive, unitentional collaboration between government entitlement programs, government farm subsidies, the corporate agricultural industry (like Monsanto), and the birth of the mega-food industry, AND, lastly, big pharma. However, it all starts with big government. Corporations always grow in relation to the size and scope of government. As government imposes more regulation on industry, corporations grow and invest more in lobbying efforts to ensure that those regulations benefit them at the expense of smaller business. As their lobbying efforts increase, the interplay between government regulatory agencies and mega corporations becomes incestuous.

Look at the incestuous relationship between the FDA and Monsanto.

http://theearthkeepers.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/monsanto-gov-overlap1.png

and how a handful of massive internation corporation own and control nearly the entire food production and distribution system in nearly all developed countries.

i.huffpost.com/gen/585370/original.jpg

While I agree in principle with the initial post that lack of exercise has a detrimental effect on our health, the fascistic takeover of the food industry is even worse. The primary concern is to produce the product with the lowest production cost and the highest margin.
 
Eat Right
Exercise daily
Die Anyway…🤷

Call me fatalistic…

Peace
James
 
JRKH said:
Eat Right
Exercise daily
Die Anyway…🤷

Call me fatalistic…

Peace
James
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Diet and exercise may do nothing to extend the quantity of your life, but they sure can extend the quality of it.
 
I can see it now: under the same logic that brought us Obamatax we will now be taxed for not showing up at the exercise club for a physical fitness class three times a week. It’s constitutional by Roberts rules. 😦
 
Scott_Lafrance said:
Diet and exercise may do nothing to extend the quantity of your life, but they sure can extend the quality of it.
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Yes I know…

But then, I am living with a person who took good care of themselves and now suffers from Alzheimer’s. Likewise my father took good care of himself and likewise died of Alzheimer’s. 😦

God does not intend for this corporeal body to go on forever and so I simply accept this and go on about my business.

Anyway - maybe my current life situation adds to this fatalistic outlook…🤷

Peace
James
 
JRKH said:
Yes I know…

But then, I am living with a person who took good care of themselves and now suffers from Alzheimer’s. Likewise my father took good care of himself and likewise died of Alzheimer’s. 😦

God does not intend for this corporeal body to go on forever and so I simply accept this and go on about my business.

Anyway - maybe my current life situation adds to this fatalistic outlook…🤷

Peace
James
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Current studies suggest that Alzheimer’s may be a third form of diabetes. My step father died of it. Many people who believe they take good care of themselves develop it because of a thing called insulin resistance. I am not going to get into it here (forum rules about making medical recommendations, etc…)

Also, our body is a temple of the spirit. We are required by God to be good stewards of it until He calls us home.
 
Scott_Lafrance said:
Diet and exercise may do nothing to extend the quantity of your life, but they sure can extend the quality of it.
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But diet and exercise do extend the duration too, all other factors (such as genes, smoking and drinking habits, etc.) being equal of course.
 
Tenofovir said:
But diet and exercise do extend the duration too, all other factors (such as genes, smoking and drinking habits, etc.) being equal of course.
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The verdict is out on that one. Granted poor lifestyle choices can SHORTEN duration of life, but there is no way to prove that good lifestyle choices can EXTEND life. There simply is no benchmark to judge it against.
 
Scott_Lafrance said:
The verdict is out on that one. Granted poor lifestyle choices can SHORTEN duration of life, but there is no way to prove that good lifestyle choices can EXTEND life. There simply is no benchmark to judge it against.
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Scott, it’s the accepted view in the medical community.
All-cause and cardiovascular-related death
Primary prevention
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Since the seminal work of Morris and colleagues in the 1950s16,17 and the early work of Paffenbarger and colleagues in the 1970s,18,19 there have been numerous long-term prospective follow-up studies (mainly involving men but more recently women also) that have assessed the relative risk of death from any cause and from specific diseases (e.g., carciovascular disease) associated with physical inactivity.6,20–26
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Both men and women who reported increased levels of physical activity and fitness were found to have reductions in relative risk (by about 20%–35%27,28) of death (see Appendix 2, available at www.cmaj.ca/cgi/content/full/174/6/801/DC1). For example, in a study involving healthy middle-aged men and women followed up for 8 years, the lowest quintiles of physical fitness, as measured on an exercise treadmill, were associated with an increased risk of death from any cause compared with the top quintile for fitness (relative risk among men 3.4, 95% confidence interval [CI] 2.0 to 5.8, and among women 4.7, 95% CI 2.2 to 9.8).7
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canadianmedicaljournal.ca/content/174/6/801.full#sec-2

No-one is saying you’re guaranteed to live longer, but all else being equal, the choice between regular exercise vs sedentary lifestyle is one which brings with it a decrease in “all cause” mortality in general. As they say, your mileage may vary. The issue is whether one is less likely to die prematurely or not, and regular exercise and proper diet do in general reduce the risk.

In case we’re misunderstanding each other, I am not suggesting you can live to be 150 years old by exercising and dieting, but saying all else being equal (such as one’s genetic makeup) one is likely to live longer (i.e. prolong one’s life) with wise lifestyle choices. The sins of sloth and gluttony have real (physical) implications, in the same way extramarital sex gave us AIDS, syphilis etc.
 
Tenofovir said:
Scott, it’s the accepted view in the medical community.

canadianmedicaljournal.ca/content/174/6/801.full#sec-2

No-one is saying you’re guaranteed to live longer, but all else being equal, the choice between regular exercise vs sedentary lifestyle is one which brings with it a decrease in “all cause” mortality in general. As they say, your mileage may vary. The issue is whether one is less likely to die prematurely or not, and regular exercise and proper diet do in general reduce the risk.

In case we’re misunderstanding each other, I am not suggesting you can live to be 150 years old by exercising and dieting, but saying all else being equal (such as one’s genetic makeup) one is likely to live longer (i.e. prolong one’s life) with wise lifestyle choices. The sins of sloth and gluttony have real (physical) implications, in the same way extramarital sex gave us AIDS, syphilis etc.
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Let’s face it. For urban dwellers, most forms of exercise available to them are BORING. I get a fair amont of exercise doing ranch work. Lots of walking and upper body movement. I don’t notice that I’m getting exercise because I have tasks to do and my mind is on them. So I’m not bored. But if I had to get my exercise on a treadmill, I am inclined to think I just wouldn’t do it. You get a little change of scenery with jogging, but that’s hard on your joints and most people don’t have a very good place to do it. Swimming I could see because it’s fun in itself, but that’s a pretty big hassle to do every day or every few days. In the winter, you would have to belong to a country club or something.

When I was a kid, an obese kid was extremely rare. Same in high school. But back then, kids could roam around safely, bike all over town freely, organize their own games. It’s not thought now that they can do that in safety.

And schools don’t require the kind of PE they used to require either.

One can talk about twinkies all one wants to, but frankly I think a lot of obesity nowadays is due to lack of opportunity to get any exercise that isn’t stupefyingly boring.
 
gilliam said:
People across the world are falling so far short on exercise that the problem has become a global pandemic, causing nearly a tenth of deaths worldwide and killing roughly as many people as smoking, researchers warned this week as an alarming series of studies was published in the Lancet.

Eight out of 10 youngsters age 13 to 15 don’t get enough exercise, according to one of the Lancet studies released Tuesday, and nearly a third of adults fall short. The problem is even worse for girls and women, who are less active than boys and men, researchers found.

The results are fatal. Lack of exercise is tied to worldwide killers such as heart disease, diabetes and breast and colon cancer. If just a quarter of inactive adults got enough exercise, more than 1.3 million deaths could be prevented worldwide annually, researchers said. Half an hour of brisk walking five times a week would do the trick.

Despite its deadly consequences, lack of exercise doesn’t get the same funding or attention as other health problems, said Pedro Hallal, associate professor at the Federal University of Pelotas in Brazil and author of one of the studies.

latimesblogs.latimes.com/world_now/2012/07/lack-of-exercise-kills-roughly-as-many-as-smoking-study-says.html
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10 out of 10 people die once in their lives.
 
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