Runner’s Need a Larger Retirement Fund
All you runners out there better be thinking twice about how much you are putting into your retirement accounts. According to some new research results, you are going to live longer than non runners.
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.
I think it is great that running improve longevity. It might be the push I need to get back on the road. I last ran nearly 2 years ago, but continue to weight lift and use a recumbent bike. My problem is that I can’t get up early enough in the morning to run and my workouts are usually at night, when it is a bit dangerous to go out for a jog.
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