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Re:Fitness Crazed by jcfrei on Sunday May 25, 2014 @05:44PM (#7797686)
Here are some papers (stuck behind a paywall, but conclusions are there), which show a correlation between mortality and strength. So regardless of the author's intentions, increasing your strength might actually increase your life expectancy.

http://www.bmj.com/content/337/bmj.a439

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17398228

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10795731

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16456196

PS: Obviously the question of causality remains contested. Are healthier people just stronger or do strong people get healthier?

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Re:Fitness Crazed by morgante on Sunday May 25, 2014 @05:48PM (#7797701)
> PS: Obviously the question of causality remains contested. Are healthier people just stronger or do stronger people get healthier?

That seems like a pretty big confounding variable. Fit people are generally both healthier and stronger. I highly doubt strength training, in itself, is the most effective way to increase longevity.

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