From Finland comes news that exercise helps ward off certain cancers, and the more intense the better:
Finnish researchers recently concluded that, if you wish to ward off
lung or gastrointestinal cancer, you might want to spend your leisure
time jogging instead of picking berries, mushroom gathering or fishing.
In the study,
published in late July on the Web site of the British Journal of Sports
Medicine, scientists studied the health of a group of 2,560 middle-aged
Finns over the course of about 17 years. The subjects, all men living
in eastern Finland, kept diaries of their daily activities for a year
and then went about them.
At the start of the study, none had cancer. By the end, 181 had died of the disease.
At the start of the study, none had cancer. By the end, 181 had died of the disease.
So they followed some of the subjects until they were what they were - Finnished.
First!
Posted by: Bill First | August 22, 2009 at 09:13 PM
Believe it or not, Elvis is the guy who sold me on exercise. I went to see him perform in the early 80's when he was still in pretty good shape. At that time he claimed that he tried to jog for 30 minutes every day before he got up.
Posted by: Original MikeS | August 22, 2009 at 09:24 PM
80's = 70's
Posted by: Original MikeS | August 22, 2009 at 09:27 PM
"before he got up"?
Posted by: PD | August 22, 2009 at 09:44 PM
"before he got up"?
Yeah, after he got up he had better things to do.
Posted by: ben | August 22, 2009 at 09:49 PM
Another Obamacare moment!
Posted by: glenda | August 22, 2009 at 09:50 PM
Love the big finnish, TM.
Posted by: bad s##t | August 22, 2009 at 09:52 PM
Well, I guess my goose is cooked, as I have never and probably will never exercise intensely in my life.
80's = 70's
You scared me for a minute there.
Posted by: Porchlight | August 22, 2009 at 10:13 PM
"..jogging trumps berry picking."
Shoot ... but we knew that. Did they examine butter and alcohol consumption?
Posted by: Frau Butterbrot | August 22, 2009 at 10:22 PM
Or exercise intensely and die..
Posted by: cathyf | August 22, 2009 at 10:32 PM
..jogging trumps berry picking.
As long as it does not trump grape picking or stomping. The first Zin crop will be harvested in the next day or two. I have yeast, and I'm not afraid to use it!
If I may be more domestic still, the love of my life made her first Doro Wat (complete with Injera!) this evening pretty darned good. I am a very lucky man.
Posted by: DrJ | August 22, 2009 at 10:34 PM
the love of my life made her first Doro Wat (complete with Injera!) this evening pretty darned good. I am a very lucky man.
DrJ, Would you explain that because I have a dirty mind. :)
Posted by: Ann | August 22, 2009 at 10:47 PM
Doro Wat is a classic Ethiopian dish (chicken). Injera is the flat bread that one uses to scoop it up to eat -- no utensils allowed!
Posted by: DrJ | August 22, 2009 at 10:50 PM
Just kidding DrJ! I do love a man that refers to his mate as "the love of my life". You are very lucky!
Posted by: Ann | August 22, 2009 at 11:17 PM
"Exercise Intensely Or Die"
Sounds a lot like healthcare costs are gonna mandate personal responsibility by dictating sound eating habits for the obese.
There's no fascism like 'patient well-being.
Posted by: piccolo pete | August 22, 2009 at 11:17 PM
Obamacare will tax joggers to pay for cancer treatment for nonjoggers.
Posted by: Barry Dauphin | August 22, 2009 at 11:21 PM
DrJ...
that sounds delicious, and I love a man who loves and respects his wife as you evidently do! :)
Posted by: glenda | August 22, 2009 at 11:38 PM
Ann-
Recipe LUN, but you NEED the bread.
I am jealous, DrJ, jealous.
And I am making progress on the house, slooowwwly.
Talk to you soon.
Night all.
Posted by: Melinda Romanoff | August 22, 2009 at 11:40 PM
Thanks, all. We went through a *lot* to find one another and it was well worth it.
This was her first attempt at Ethiopian food, though we have enjoyed it at restaurants. Pretty darned good; we may have to retest some of those restaurants. For calibration purposes only, mind you.
Posted by: DrJ | August 22, 2009 at 11:54 PM
Wonder how much Ethipopian food you have to eat to get that long skinny look they have.
Posted by: clarice | August 22, 2009 at 11:59 PM
Not as much as I had tonight, Clarice.
Posted by: DrJ | August 23, 2009 at 12:02 AM
Thanks Melinda.
LOL, Clarice. How was your dinner party?
Posted by: Ann | August 23, 2009 at 12:02 AM
DrJ,
Do you get heartburn eating all those spices? I don't know if I could eat it.
Posted by: Sue The Bastard | August 23, 2009 at 01:06 AM
I think this medical study must be correct.
Like the story cautions, ">http://www.adn.com/3437/story/906447.html"> look what happens to you when instead of jogging you do spend your leisure time eating berries or mushrooms and fartin' around in the fishpond.
Posted by: daddy | August 23, 2009 at 03:42 AM
Chatting with my bank teller awhile ago, she asked if I ran..."only if someone is chasing me with a knife."
Posted by: Janet | August 23, 2009 at 06:51 AM
Do you get heartburn eating all those spices?
I never have Sue. I am blessed with a cast-iron stomach.
Posted by: DrJ | August 23, 2009 at 09:48 AM
Why encourage a longer lifespan anyway. Who wants to pay for all those old fogeys on Medicare and Social Security. This is sarcasm by the way.
Posted by: bio mom | August 23, 2009 at 12:51 PM
Obama care will require you to eat sensibly,the arugula harvest permitting,exercise frequently,after labouring all day on the arugula plantation,refrain from smoking,drinking and casual sex and avoid dying of boredom until the allotted time. At which point you must keel over quietly and neatly at the appropriate collection point.
Posted by: PeterUK | August 23, 2009 at 03:12 PM
guns don't kill people...studies kill people....they would all have been alive today but for those dam scientists.
Posted by: matt | August 23, 2009 at 08:09 PM