Runners live longer, stay healthier

Here is great article to motivate you to run.

From Reuters - Runners live longer, stay healthier

WASHINGTON - People who want to live a long and healthy life might want to take up running. A study published on Monday shows middle-aged members of a runner's club were half as likely to die over a 20-year period as people who did not run.

Running reduced the risk not only of heart disease, but of cancer and neurological diseases such as Alzheimer's, researchers at Stanford University in California found.

Any type of vigorous exercise will likely do the trick, said Stanford's Dr. James Fries, who worked on the study. "It is the regular physical vigorous activity that is important."

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