Project Our Statistics
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“We seem to become
immune to horrendous
events when they are com
monplace. From this per
spective, it is instructive to
project our statistics con
cerning premature death
and disability from heart
' attacks and strokes onto a
'more dramatic screen. Let
us say that beginning
January 1, two Jumbo Jets
crash every day of the
year, killing SOI people
everyday (359 men, 142
women). Tire average age
is 58, with an age range
from 30 to 85. At the end of
. the year, the total number
of premature deaths from
these airplane accidents is
183,000. In addition, an
other fpur jumbo Jets crash
daily, extensively injuring
1,502 people per crash;
after six months’ of in ten
sive medical care, these
crash victims are restored
to only one-half of their
pre-accident health and
mobility. These non-fa tal
crashes involve a total of
570,000 persons by the .end
of the year. The total cost
in lost earnings is' $40
billion.’’
Farguhar writes, “The
costs in the plan crash
analogy are the actual es
timated annual lost earn
ings and medical expenses
of heart disease and
stroke patients in the
under 65 age group alone.’’
Research has shown that
exercise, including run
ning, can go a long way
toward lowering the inci
dence of heart attacks and
strokes. Since 1950 the
death rate from cardiovas
cular disease has declined
by one-third, a particular
ly striking trend in view of
the long upward march be
fore that. When I tatted
recently with Dr. Ralph S.
Paffenbarger Jr., the epi
demiologist, be told me be
thought the increasing
amounts of time Ameri
cans are devoting to exer
cise was pertly responsi
ble. Paffenbarger, himself
a marathon runner who has
competed all over the
world, predicts, on the '
basis of what be has wit
nessed, that the trend will
continue.
But will exercise by it
self by enough to enhance
health as much as it might
be enhanced? Almost cer
tainly not. Exercise, it is
true, can help us lose
weight, feel better, and
have more efficient hearts
and lungs. But no matter
how diligently pursued,
exercise can’t do every
thing. Running,or for that
matter any other exercise,
is only a beginning .....
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