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They Say: Running Not So Bad After All
After all the warnings that your kid’s running is going to make her knees hurt down the road, here’s a news flash: it may not be so bad after all.
Looks like conventional wisdom has been proven wrong once again.
TIME is reporting a series of studies that have concluded the long-reported effects of “vigorous sports-playing during youth” has likely been vastly overstated. Says the report, “Not only is there no connection between running and arthritis, the new studies say, but running — and perhaps regular, vigorous exercise generally — may even help protect people from joint problems later on.”
So balancing the push to get kids moving to fight childhood obesity against the threat of osteoarthritis isn’t a balancing act at all anymore. If anything, you can blame it on yourself – and Granny Ethel and Grandpa Fred. Turns out ostoearthritis is a genetic problem after all. And considering one of the big triggers is being overweight, it’s time to get the fat off your kids now.
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Bluster commented on Dec 30 09 at 11:00 amI was that guy your grandfather told you about; the one who ran everywhere. Until I turned twenty five. I had knee trouble, couldn’t sleep at night, and when ‘they’ said it was because my running abused my knees, I quit. For 35 years. I walked. I’ve walked forever, but my knees still hurt.
I started mixing run into my walk earlier this year, and todayas an example, I ran five miles, worked out on machines for sixty minutes, then ran another three and a half miles.
My knees still hurt, but my heart seems to love me more. I wonder who ‘they’ was that I listened to all those years ago. Listening to ‘he/she, them’ sure cheated me out of a lot of fun.
Bluster commented on Dec 30 09 at 11:01 amComments
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