Exercise, Living Longer and Bobcat Goldthwait
Saw this article in the Washington Post, “A Daily Workout Could Add 4 Years to Life, Study Says“. The article highlights a study of 5,000 middle-aged and elderly Americans that found that those who had “moderate to high” levels of activity lived 1.3 to 3.7 years longer than those who got little exercise.
To those conclusions, I say “That’s it???” Only a couple of years??
It appears that if you sit in front of the TV on Sunday afternoon watching football while eating pork rinds you’ll drop dead at age 75, but if instead you work out and exercise you’d live to 76 or maybe 79. Of course you could argue that the pork rind eater would have more health problems, but still, only 1.3 to 3.7 additional years life expectancy??
That reminds me of a Bobcat Goldthwaite comedy routine I once saw on HBO. Someone told him that smoking will knock five years off your life expectancy, which was OK with him. Those five years he was losing were the last five years of his life, when he might be in his 80’s. Bobcat preferred to enjoy life and die at 75 rather than eat tofu, quit drinking and smoking and exercise so that he could live those extra years in his late 70’s. Think about it.