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| Tuesday, September 2, 2008 |
| Natural high: Runners can prevent heart attacks, disabilities |
Runner’s high? It can last for years, even decades
The runner’s high has long been a way to describe the good feeling you get during a run. It appears that runner’s high lasts a lot longer than that.
The health benefits of a running habit are hard to dispute. Regular physical activity is a plus for any of us. You might be able to say that some runners exercise too often or run through injuries to a fault. But clearly those runners are enhancing cardiovascular health and, not unimportantly, boosting mental health.
Researchers at Duke University Medical School’s behavioral medicine department were the first to show that running and other forms of exercise can reduce symptoms of depression. George Sheehan, a Boston physician and bestselling author of running books during the jogging boom of the 1970s, was fond of explaining, “the first half-hour of my run is for my body; the second half-hour is for my head.”
Now comes new research from Stanford University showing that a regular running habit can provide a physical upside even as those runners grow older and convert from runners to walkers. In fact, running as a young adult can reduce risk for disabilities in middle age and later in life.
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