{"id":3790,"date":"2008-11-22T03:37:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-22T03:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3790"},"modified":"2025-09-30T00:37:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T00:37:12","slug":"running-and-your-health-is-it-always-good-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3790","title":{"rendered":"Running and your health. Is it always good for you?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe not. There&#39;s a good chance it can be overdone.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thegearjunkie.com\/the-runners-heart\"><font color=\"#800080\"><strong>The Runner&#39;s Heart | The Daily Dose | The Gear Junkie<\/strong><\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\" style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\">\n<p>The study, administered at the West-German Heart Center Essen, focused on male marathoners age 50 and up. Among its findings, while the runners had lower than average cholesterol levels and better blood pressure, they had more measurable coronary calcium buildup or plaque than the general population<\/p>\n<p>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<\/p>\n<p>The question begged by the German study\u2019s findings \u2014 and now perpetuated by a study at the Minneapolis Heart Institute this autumn \u2014 is one that bucks conventional thought: Can athletic activities like long-term marathon training actually contribute to poor heart health?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRunning is a proven healthy activity, but we\u2019re looking to find if there can be too much of a good thing,\u201d said Dr. Robert Schwartz, the Minneapolis Heart Institute cardiologist heading up the study, which will look at about 50 men who have run marathons for more than 25 years straight.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe not. There&#39;s a good chance it can be overdone. The Runner&#39;s Heart | The Daily Dose | The Gear Junkie The study, administered at the West-German Heart Center Essen, focused on male marathoners age 50 and up. Among its findings, while the runners had lower than average cholesterol levels and better blood pressure, they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3790"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9211,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3790\/revisions\/9211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}