Study: Regular Jogging Increases Longevity
Tomorrow is “Bloomsday” here in Spokane. No… it’s not the literary version (celebrated on June 16th in honor of James Joyce’s “Ulysses”), rather it’s something to do with lilacs (Spokane is nicknamed “Lilac City,” so I’ve read). At any rate, “Bloomsday” features a 12K run that attracts approx. 50,000 runners.
That’s too many for me – I’m passing (I hate crowds… sue me).
But according to this MSNBC report on a recent Danish study, those runners are doing more than just having a good time.
Going for jog regularly may help you live longer, a new study from Denmark suggests.
The findings show that women who regularly jogged lived 5.6 years longer than women who didn’t, and men who jogged lived 6.2 years longer than those who didn’t.
Jogging for one to 2.5 hours per week at a slow or average pace seemed to deliver the greatest benefit, said study researcher Peter Schnohr, chief cardiologist of the Copenhagen City Heart Study.
“We can say with certainty that regular jogging increases longevity. The good news is that you don’t actually need to do that much to reap the benefits,” Schnohr said in a statement.
That works out to 2 – 5 half-hour sessions per week – a pretty small investment of time for such a big payoff.
May 6, 2012
It sure is a small amount of time to spend to live longer. To bad my wife and son won’t listen when I try to tell them that.
I can’t even get them to walk a couple times a week!