I agree with this article, but would also like to point out that being relatively fit also helps one respond better to the stresses of treatments for inevitable disease. Here are more benefits of fitness and how it reduced risk for many diseases.
This is an epidemiological study as reported by a newspaper, therefore 80% likely to be bullshit. But I'm linking to it anyway because I want to believe it.
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/0...ss/?ref=health
Here's wishing a strong happy old age for us all, followed by a mercifully brief final illness!The adults who’d been the most fit in their 40s and 50s often developed many of the same conditions, but notably their maladies appeared significantly later in life than for the less fit. Typically, the most aerobically fit people lived with chronic illnesses in the final five years of their lives, instead of the final 10, 15 or even 20 years.
I agree with this article, but would also like to point out that being relatively fit also helps one respond better to the stresses of treatments for inevitable disease. Here are more benefits of fitness and how it reduced risk for many diseases.
Oh Hells yes. I really like this.
I shouldn't be but I am "that guy" at my tiny gym at the times that I train. It is rather nice when, once and a while at least, people stop to watch me bench. For some reason, though, heads never turn when I press. It must be because pressing is so unusual that they don't know how tough it is to moose that bar overhead. Re: the OP, I have had the sniffles once in the three years that I have been back in the gym. Strong = healthy.