Do not exercise.... nb

[Sybarite]

Just listened to a Beeb report on the age spans of species:

It was recently discovered that the bow head whale lives to 200; the clam to 220 years. Fish in the Antarctic live between twice and ten times as long as their temperate counterparts.

The reason is that the conditions in which they live lead to a lowering of metabolic rates; look how long tortoises live....

My interpretation is therefore: take things easy, don't tear about, and for goodness sake, avoid any exercise whatever. Just take up boating.

John

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[R32Stbrigid]

here here.

also, on the basis that red wine is good for you .....

Is more red wine more good for you?

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[DJE]

I heard that theory. Apparently the total number of heartbeats per lifetime is roughly constant for a huge variety of species from sparrows to whales. Spooky.

So avoid raising your heart rate if possible? But aren't some of the best times those when the heart is beating a little faster? Don't know if I want a long and boring life.

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[boatmike]

Yesh.....Absobloodylootly it ish... Hic!
Why ish it gettin dark alreddy.... I ony jusht got up.......

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[robp]

It wasn't this morning!! But it's getting better...

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[dralex]

That got me thinking. Assume an unfit person who has an average heart rate of 80BPM. This will give a total of 3.1536e+09 beats in a 75 year lifetime. Then take a person who does an hour of aerobic exercise everydau of their life and raises their rate to 150bpm during exercise. As a result of this, their resting heart rate wil decrease to let's say 56BPM. The total beats in a lifetime for this person works out at 2.36195e+09. This means that the person who exercise will live longer ie they will make their quota of beats last longer. There are too many assumptions here to list, but it's an interesting rough calculation.

Any comments?

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[DJE]

It ruins the argument for not exercising so I fear it must be correct.
I don't suppose an hour of raised heart rate due to panic as deadlines approach, and too much time has been spent on the forums, counts in lieu of aerobic exercise does it?

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[dralex]

It could be argued for logically,yes. Just make sure you also drink loads of strong coffee to really push your heart rate up.

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[StugeronSteve]

Got a friend who was told by his Doc that his heart rate and BP were up due to him being over weight and stressed out. Is this some sort of medico speak way of telling him that he's a fat b*****d that can't cope?

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[dralex]

In a nutshell, yes, it's just we can't be that honest/ unfeeling.

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[ScoutLeader]

My Grandfather died at 98 years. He had never heard of cholosterol. He smoked a pipe ( but he did smoke a cigarette on Christmas day after dinner). He dined on everything that is supposed to be bad for your health!!! He was a tailor ( but he sailed and all his boats were called cigarette 1,2 etc. I live my Grandfathers life ignoring all interference from the GOVERNMENT and have a thoroughly good time. My advice to all is, eat what you like, do what you like, have no regrets, and when your time is up, your time is up. Go Graciously and with no regrets.l

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[dralex]

It's amazingly easy to justify certain lifestyle choices. I wasn't advocating any lifestyle change by this. I'm a great believer in people taking responsibility for themselves and making their own choices and enjoying thenselves however they wish to- just don't blame it on anybody else when their time comes sooner than expected, or is a lot more painful and distressing than expected. We've all heard the exceptions.

Guilty conscience maybe, or years justifying things.

No personal attack here and no offence meant.

Regards

Alex

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[Nickel]

It's a well known fact that visitng the doctor is a stressful experience. White Coat hypertension increases the heart beat by say 10 per minute for all the time in the waiting room, and then the visit itself. Say 40 minutes for each minute x 3.4058e divided by age, multiplied by the square root of their IQ [theirs not the doctors], means that every visit to the doctor actually takes 17 and half minutes off your life!!

And of course, the less fit you are the more stressful the visit. So the f*t b*****ds can end up losing hours per visit. No wonder they need to have a lie down and some hot chocolate afterwards!

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[dralex]

Like it /forums/images/icons/laugh.gif- by that rule, some of the people I see should already be dead.

BTW- anything I say on this forum to do with medicine may or may not be true, may or may not be personal opinion, may be totally anecdotal and may just be said to get a reaction.

Regards

Alex

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