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Re:The Right Dose of Exercise for a Longer Life by paulsutter on Wednesday April 15, 2015 @08:50PM (#9385262)
What part of the article gave you the impression that an exercise related reduced chance of death in a given year would cause a person to be in worse shape or less mobile/healthy/pain free? Your conclusion is counterintuitive, so I can only assume you have an interesting basis for your position.

I ask because a naive reader might assume that you're just making a dismissive middlebrow comment. Which would fall into the category of gratuitous negatively, and I can't imagine you'd be doing that.

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Re:The Right Dose of Exercise for a Longer Life by djrtwo on Thursday April 16, 2015 @01:25AM (#9386013)
He is not drawing that conclusion. He is just questioning people's insentives for staying in shape. You get longevity, but actually the great part is you feel better day to day. It's like telling a smoker to quit because he'll feel better day to day breathing and being able to walk longer without catching their breath rather than telling him to quit because he'll die of cancer.
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