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Jogging increases life expectancy: Gentle jogging once a week 'can add 6 years to your life'

Jogging increases life expectancy: Gentle jogging once a week 'can add 6 years to your life'

By Daily Mail Reporter

PUBLISHED: 06:04 EST, 3 May 2012 | UPDATED: 04:38 EST, 4 May 2012

Get those feet moving: Jogging for an hour a week from the age of 20 to 70 takes 108 days but adds more than five years to your life

Get those feet moving: Jogging for an hour a week from the age of 20 to 70 takes 108 days but adds more than five years to your life

Jogging for just an hour a week can increase your life expectancy by around six years, reveal scientists.

Even better news is that a gentle jog is better for you than any sort of extreme workout, the study concludes.

Researchers found that jogging at a slow or average pace for one or two hours per week can increase the life expectancy of men by 6.2 years and women by 5.6 years, reducing the risk of death by 44 per cent.

The results challenge previous studies into jogging which questioned whether it is healthy or hazardous, with the debate kicking off in the 70s when middle aged men began taking an interest in the exercise.

However, following the death of a few men who died while out on a run, the media suggested jogging might be too strenuous for middle aged people, casting doubts over the past-time.

As part of the Copenhagen City Heart study, a cardiovascular study of around 20,000 men and women aged 20 to 93, researchers set abou t quashing previous suggestions that jogging is bad for people’s health.

The study has so far resulted in over 750 papers, and has previously explored associations for longevity with different forms of exercise and other factors.

Researchers believe jogging delivers multiple health benefits, improving oxygen uptake, lowering blood pressure, preventing obesity, improving cardiac function and improving psychological function, as well as many more benefits.

Dr Peter Schnohr, from the Bispebjerg University Hospital, said: 'The improved psychological wellbeing may be down to fact that people have more social interactions when they’re out jogging.'

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Any kind of jogging might add 6 years to your life, but it can also take 6 years off your knees. I'm going in for my second total knee replacement soon. That said, all of my grandparents, parents, their siblings have all lived into their late nineties. My great-grandfather died at 99 back in 1964 before modern medicine started saving and extending lives. None of them ever jogged, none of them were particularly active beyond normal every day activities, and both of my grandmothers were downright sedentary. They grew up and then raised their families on a typical farm-style diet of lots of red meat. I've never been able to duplicate my grandma's beef and noodles because she used such fatty pieces of chuck roast. My mother was still cooking with lard when I was a little girl. Not only did they cook with lard, but my grandma kept a pan of flour in the cupboard to flour certain cuts of meat, and returned the flour to the cupboard, and obviously none of us ever died from bacteria.

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How long to Galaxy Ripples add to my life?

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My mother is 93. She is still in her own home, cooking her own meals, although she needs help with housework, gardening, and shopping. She has her sight, her hearing, and appears set to get to her century with no problem. She never jogged anywhere. She climbed a few mountains when she was much younger, but has never seen the inside of a gym or a swimming pool. Nor did her mother (died aged 83), or her grandmothers (both died aged 96). Why do I suspect this report isn't worth the paper it is printed on?

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"researchers set about quashing previous suggestions that jogging is bad for people’s health." Sounds like the researchers had an agenda. I wonder if they had set about proving the opposite they would have done. Note the careful wording of the text. The message for me here is don't overdo the exercise as it can cause harm. Sure run a marathon, but give your body three months to repair the damage. A study on professional marathon runners showed heart damage after running a marathon which took 3 months to repair.

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"course it can ........!

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So in theory for every extra hour that I run in a week, that equates to another 6 years added to my life ...so if run 40 hours in a week I can expect to live an extra 240 years....... that's flipping brilliant

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..yeah it's true. And the last worst years of your life too. When your old and in a people home with cold dinners and scalding baths.

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6 more years of undue stress, biting poverty and mis-communication with the youth of tomorrow?! Er, pass me a cig and a pint....

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Surely that should be 'causes cancer'? The DM aren't telling people something can improve life-expectancy are they?

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If you run 3 miles a day for a week you will end up 21 from home!

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