Excellent post on Runner's World US following all the recent discussion on dangers of long distance running:

Given the lack of mortality and other health data on serious exercisers, say people who might run 30+ miles a week (since no one has enough of these people in their studies); and the fact that most existing mortality data is "adjusted" to limit some of the benefits of exercise; and your lack of a defined level of "excessive exercise;" and the admitted lack of a screening tool to identify excessive-exercise damage; what exactly is the purpose of the Potential Adverse Effects paper? Lots of bad things happen when we get out of bed in the morning. Is this any different? James O'Keefe: Firstly, regarding the host of bad things that can happen when one gets out of bed in the morning, they are nothing compared to the dreadful things that tend to happen to the person who stays in bed. As I tell my hospitalized patients, nearly everyone who dies in the hospital, dies while lying i...

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