{"id":9178,"date":"2012-12-03T10:20:40","date_gmt":"2012-12-03T10:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/12\/03\/its-a-running-argument\/"},"modified":"2012-12-03T10:20:40","modified_gmt":"2012-12-03T10:20:40","slug":"its-a-running-argument","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/12\/03\/its-a-running-argument\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s a Running Argument"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dave Lull<\/a> points us to  The Too-Much-Running Myth Rises Again<\/a>.  Excerpt:<\/span><\/p>\n

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(1) One of the major pieces of evidence the group cites is a study that was presented at a conference over the summer. The WSJ<\/em> description:<\/span><\/p>\n

In a study involving 52,600 people followed for three decades, the runners in the group had a 19% lower death rate than nonrunners, according to the Heart editorial. But among the running cohort, those who ran a lot\u2014more than 20 to 25 miles a week\u2014lost that mortality advantage.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

But here, from the actual abstract<\/a>, is the part they never mention:<\/span><\/p>\n

Cox regression was used to quantify the association between running and mortality after adjusting <\/strong>for baseline age, sex, examination year, body mass index, current smoking, heavy alcohol drinking, hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, parental CVD, and levels of other physical activities.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

What this means is that they used statistical methods to effectively "equalize" everyone's weight, blood pressure, cholesterol, and so on. But this is absurd <\/strong>when you think about it. Why do we think running is good for health? In part because it plays a role in reducing weight, blood pressure, cholesterol, and so on (for more details on how this distorts the results, including evidence from other studies on how these statistical tricks hide real health benefits from much higher amounts of running, see my earlier blog entry<\/a>). They're effectively saying, "If we ignore the known health benefits of greater amounts of aerobic exercise, then greater amounts of aerobic exercise don't have any health benefits."<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Companion post:  Running: Gain, No Pain<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dave Lull points us to  The Too-Much-Running Myth Rises Again.  Excerpt: (1) One of the major pieces of evidence the group cites is a study that was presented at a conference over the summer. The WSJ description: In a study involving 52,600 people followed for three decades, the runners in the group had a 19% lower … Continue reading “It’s a Running Argument”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-running"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}