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[seivtcho]

The next proof that sporting does not grant you even reaching 90 is the death of Pele - the world famous football player, who died two days ago at the age of 82.

 

He is one of the many sportsman - professional and non professional, with or without a recognition, training for mmoney, trining for glory or simply jogging for health, who did not reach the age of my grand-mother, and my grand-mother had never sported even a day in her life.

 

Are we facing facts, that show, that the idea of sports increasing the lifespan simply does not meet the criteria of the reality?

[seivtcho]

P.S.

 

Found something interesting here:

 

https://www.onthisda...port/deaths.php

 

For today we have

1968 Carl Ahues, German Chess Master (1950), dies at 85

1980 Arthur Wellard, English cricket all-rounder (2 Tests, 7 wickets, BB 4/81; Somerset CCC), dies at 78
2006 Liese Prokop, Austrian pentathlete (Olympic silver 1968), dies at 65

I highly doubt that the chess master has been exercising more than the all-rounder or the pentathlete.

 

[Mind]

I think this has been studied and "on average" people who engage in sports live a bit longer and in better health. If I have time, I will find the studies.

 

There will always be outliers. My great uncle was a "raging" alcoholic and he lived to be 89. Most people who drink two bottles of whiskey per day will die a lot younger. It is not good for you.

[seivtcho]

Those studies are interesting indeed. 

I wonder how did they averaged the results so to be applied for all people. 

 

Happy new year by the way! 

 

[kurdishfella]

People who workout tend to take better care of their health overall

[seivtcho]

Do you know someone, who surely, scientifically proven, has lived longer, solely because hw was exercising regularly?