Running slows aging

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Do you jog? Well if the answer is no, here’s one reason why you might want to start.
According to a study by the Stanford university school of medicine, regular running slows the effects of aging.
Researchers tracked five hundred older runners for more than twenty years, and discovered elderly runners have fewer disabilities, a longer span of active life and are half as likely as aging non-runners to die early deaths.
At the beginning of the study, runners were younger, leaner and less likely to smoke than non-runners.
After nineteen years, fifteen percent had died, compared with thirty-four percent of the non-runners.
Disability levels were also lower in runners at all time points and increased in both groups over time, but less so in runners.
Researchers say regular exercise could reduce disability and death risk by improving heart fitness, aerobic capacity, bone mass, and vaccination response, as well as improving thinking, learning and memory functions.
The new findings appear in today’s issue of archives of internal medicine, one of the American medical association’s journals.