Running for a longer life . . . and other stories

Run faster, live longerAs this column often mentions, regular physical exercise is an essential ingredient of a long and healthy life. But perhaps it is possible to take things too far? Could extreme levels of exercise reach a point where they are detrimental to longevity? A survey of the first 200 people, all men, who ran a mile in under four minutes suggests that the answer is no. When current age, if alive, or age at death, if deceased, was compared against the United Nations life tables for country of origin, sub-four minute mile runners lived, on average, about five years longer than their predicted life expectancy (Br J Sports Med doi:10.1136/bjsports-2024-108386).Olive oil and dementiaThe Nurses’ Health Study and the Health Professionals Follow-Up study, both longitudinal investigations in the US, have amassed humungous quantities of data on diet and lifestyle. This allows all sorts of post hoc hypotheses to be…
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