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[Danail Bulgaria]

The next proof that sporting does not grant you even reaching 90 is the death of Pele - the world famous football player, who died two days ago at the age of 82.

 

He is one of the many sportsman - professional and non professional, with or without a recognition, training for mmoney, trining for glory or simply jogging for health, who did not reach the age of my grand-mother, and my grand-mother had never sported even a day in her life.

 

Are we facing facts, that show, that the idea of sports increasing the lifespan simply does not meet the criteria of the reality?

[Danail Bulgaria]

P.S.

 

Found something interesting here:

 

https://www.onthisda...port/deaths.php

 

For today we have

1968 Carl Ahues, German Chess Master (1950), dies at 85

1980 Arthur Wellard, English cricket all-rounder (2 Tests, 7 wickets, BB 4/81; Somerset CCC), dies at 78
2006 Liese Prokop, Austrian pentathlete (Olympic silver 1968), dies at 65

I highly doubt that the chess master has been exercising more than the all-rounder or the pentathlete.

 

[Mind]

I think this has been studied and "on average" people who engage in sports live a bit longer and in better health. If I have time, I will find the studies.

 

There will always be outliers. My great uncle was a "raging" alcoholic and he lived to be 89. Most people who drink two bottles of whiskey per day will die a lot younger. It is not good for you.

[Danail Bulgaria]

Those studies are interesting indeed. 

I wonder how did they averaged the results so to be applied for all people. 

 

Happy new year by the way! 

 

[kurdishfella]

People who workout tend to take better care of their health overall

[Danail Bulgaria]

Do you know someone, who surely, scientifically proven, has lived longer, solely because hw was exercising regularly? 

[johnross47]

How on earth would you go about proving that, or disproving it?

[Danail Bulgaria]

If it was correct that exercising extends your life, then the people, who sport most reguralrly whould live the longest.

 

E.g. the world of sports should be blooming with centerians and super centerians.

 

The rows of centerians and supercenterians however are somewhat missing.

 

The last news that I heared, is that a Belgium champion of power struggle has died at the age of 18.

 

 

[johnross47]

Have you any grasp at all of how science and statistics work. Anecdote is worthless. Doyou want to take your chances on being an extreme outlier?

[Danail Bulgaria]

The average length of lifes of sportsmen can be compared with the average length of life of non-sportsmen. And it should be possible to be determined if there is a statistically significant difference. That is how the scence would do it.

Problems would be retrieving the necessary information and defining what exactly non-sportsmen group would be. The best would be to be compared on proffesion. E.g. sportsmen and teachers; sportsmen and field workers; sportsmen and doctors; etc.

I don;t have the raw information and the time to do it scientifically.

[johnross47]

Go on Google Scholar and search for life expectancy of sportsmen/sportswomen compared to average population or some similar query. You will find that the science has been done. The results favour exercise. Anecdote is never a good guide to anything. People who exercise can still die of disease or something like familial cholesterolaemia or effects of the steroids they took to many of. That's what averages are for.