http://ulla.kgzv.com/2006/07/26/if-you-want-to-save-the-earth-die-now/ Sun, 05 Sep 2010 01:04:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 http://ulla.kgzv.com/2006/07/26/if-you-want-to-save-the-earth-die-now/#comment-266 Sun, 30 Jul 2006 12:50:56 +0000 http://ulla.kgzv.com/2006/07/26/if-you-want-to-save-the-earth-die-now/#comment-266 Do exercisey people really live longer? It's clear that exercise improves the _quality_ of life, particularly as one ages. But modern healthcare as gotten very good at keeping people with bad hearts and veins and lungs alive for decades. Once you factor in heart-attacks while running, strokes while swimming, and cyclists being squidged by busses, it's really hard to see the fitties living much longer, if at all. Do exercisey people really live longer? It’s clear that exercise improves the _quality_ of life, particularly as one ages. But modern healthcare as gotten very good at keeping people with bad hearts and veins and lungs alive for decades. Once you factor in heart-attacks while running, strokes while swimming, and cyclists being squidged by busses, it’s really hard to see the fitties living much longer, if at all.

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