At the risk of looking like I’m copying fellow blogger Alyson Dixon, I’m going to use this edition of my blog to announce which marathon I will be running in the Spring of 2013. First though I want to mention a recent article which I spotted on the Yahoo website which made me laugh. “Too many marathons can kill, warn doctors” was the title. You can probably guess where I’m going with this.
For years now we’ve had to listen to the Government, doctors and other so-called health experts banging on about how we should all take part in at least 30 minutes of strenuous exercise a day. “It’s good for your health” they’ve kept telling us, “the more exercise the better” and “you’ll live for longer”. So why all of a sudden does that advice appear to be changing? Why, if the article is to be believed, are doctors now issuing “a stark warning about the dangers of taking too much vigorous exercise.”
For years now we’ve had to listen to the Government, doctors and other so-called health experts banging on about how we should all take part in at least 30 minutes of strenuous exercise a day. “It’s good for your health” they’ve kept telling us, “the more exercise the better” and “you’ll live for longer”. So why all of a sudden does that advice appear to be changing? Why, if the article is to be believed, are doctors now issuing “a stark warning about the dangers of taking too much vigorous exercise.”