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If jogging is good for you why did the inventor of jogging died of massive heart attack?

November 12th, 2008 · 5 Comments

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SOG asked:

We all know that exercise is good for you. But we often read of atheletes dying suddendly while exercising. Why is that so? Any real scientific evidence to really show that jogging is good for our health?

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5 responses so far ↓

  • 1 kathy h // Nov 16, 2008 at 12:21 am

    heart disease heridtery, or high cholestrol
    stress
    and perhaps prior to jogging was not in good shape

  • 2 Dorkchop // Nov 18, 2008 at 6:06 am

    first of all no one person “invented” jogging and secondly, all of the research in the world proves that cardiovascular exercise is good for the heart. keep on joggin’

  • 3 vspinlj // Nov 21, 2008 at 12:51 pm

    Most likely due to being chased around by all his angry friends for inventing it in the first place?? Te-He…

  • 4 JJ // Nov 21, 2008 at 7:21 pm

    Jogging is really bad.,
    A new report suggests that jogging could be bad for your health, especially if you do it alone. A team of researchers from Harvard University has said that going for a run on your own is not as healthy as people believe. Their research showed that jogging as part of a group is healthier. The experiments they did on rats showed that running alone raises stress levels and slows down brain cell growth. Professor Elizabeth Gould, the research leader, said: “These results suggest that, [with no] social interaction, a normally [positive] experience can [have a negative] influence on the brain.”

  • 5 mchenryeddie // Nov 24, 2008 at 8:56 pm

    Jogging is a fantastic exercise and it builds cardiovascular strength.

    The “inventor” of jogging or at least the running era you are referring to was probably Jim Fix, who died of a heart attack. It was my understanding that he died because of a physical problem that was largely hereditary.

    Remember, running may great, but it doesn’t make you immune to such things as leaky valves, high cholesterol, and / or poor diet. Running doesn’t make one’s heart bullet proof — it simply does some good for it.

    Here’s an article on the health benefits of running:

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