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- From: bwf@cbnewsc.cb.att.com (bernard.w.fecht)
- Subject: Re: Reasons needed for running
- Organization: AT&T
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 16:46:39 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.164639.12528@cbnewsc.cb.att.com>
- References: <15890051@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM> <1992Dec19.031114.15436@mic.ucla.edu> <1992Dec21.161821.7009@unocal.com>
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- In article <1992Dec21.161821.7009@unocal.com> stgprao@st.unocal.COM (Richard Ottolini) writes:
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- [stuff deleted]
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- >The most-quoted study in area is of an east coast 25(?)th alumni group
- >where there was considerable improvement in health for people who
- >exercised aerobically 2000 kcal per week, but not much improvement thereafter.
- >Not there was a decline in health beyond 2000 kcal either.
- >This probably saying there is a lot more difference between coach potatoes
- >and people who run 30 miles a week, than between 30 and 60 miles a week.
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- This passes my first common sense sanity check. With a little bit of
- exercise, you can avoid that "death due to cardio-pulmonary" troubles.
- If you run, even a little, you PROBABLY don't smoke, you PROBABLY eat well,
- you PROBABLY are keeping your weight down, and you're exercising.
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- Says more about American's way of life than anything about running (or
- aerobics, or whatever).
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