How Exercise Boosts Your Brain
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How Exercise Boosts Your Brain
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Re: How Exercise Boosts Your Brain
#2We all know exercise is your best shot at having a healthy heart, a strong immune system, and maybe even a 100th birthday party.
Wasn't this just recently proved false (here on HN)? The sentence may as well read "We all know the sun orbits the Earth" or "We all know that you have to write real programs in C".
Or rather, if you spend most of your day sitting behind a computer, then it doesn't matter how much you exercise, you'll likely be dead by eighty. (Which is quite a liberating viewpoint if you simply accept it.)
Re: How Exercise Boosts Your Brain
#3We all know exercise is your best shot at having a healthy heart, a strong immune system, and maybe even a 100th birthday party. Wasn't this just recently proved false (here on HN)? The sentence may as well read "We all know the sun orbits the Earth" or "We all know that you have to write real programs in C". Or rather, if you spend most of your day sitting behind a computer, then it doesn't matter how much you exerc…
In the context of the benefits of exercise, i'd imagine we need to be careful not to conflate health and longevity before we debate things being 'proved false'.
Also, obligatory [Citation required]
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#4We all know exercise is your best shot at having a healthy heart, a strong immune system, and maybe even a 100th birthday party. Wasn't this just recently proved false (here on HN)? The sentence may as well read "We all know the sun orbits the Earth" or "We all know that you have to write real programs in C". Or rather, if you spend most of your day sitting behind a computer, then it doesn't matter how much you exerc…
In the context of the benefits of exercise, i'd imagine we need to be careful not to conflate health and longevity before we debate things being 'proved false'. Also, obligatory [Citation required]
Proved was the wrong choice. Implicated is probably more accurate.
But really, there was some article very recently that made all the same points.
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#5Another theory is that low calorie diet leads to longevity. Too many theories. :)
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#6We all know exercise is your best shot at having a healthy heart, a strong immune system, and maybe even a 100th birthday party. Wasn't this just recently proved false (here on HN)? The sentence may as well read "We all know the sun orbits the Earth" or "We all know that you have to write real programs in C". Or rather, if you spend most of your day sitting behind a computer, then it doesn't matter how much you exerc…
I think you are talking about this NYT column:
"The Men Who Stare at Screens", http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/14/phys-ed-the-men-who...
HN discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1514818
Re: How Exercise Boosts Your Brain
#7We all know exercise is your best shot at having a healthy heart, a strong immune system, and maybe even a 100th birthday party. Wasn't this just recently proved false (here on HN)? The sentence may as well read "We all know the sun orbits the Earth" or "We all know that you have to write real programs in C". Or rather, if you spend most of your day sitting behind a computer, then it doesn't matter how much you exerc…
Uh... no. There was the results of a survey that seemed to indicate otherwise, but a survey is, ya know, a bunch of data of what people answered to questions.
"Truth" doesn't work the way you seem to think it does.
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#8So the next time you sit down to watch television, or, um, surf the internet, remember: your BMP count might be getting into dangerous territory.
Try to imagine that same sentence with "to read a book" substituted for "to watch television, or, um, surf the internet". Hard, isn't it?
This is anti-technology bigotry. Pretty surprising at singularityhub.com, huh? That's how pervasive it is.
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#9So the next time you sit down to watch television, or, um, surf the internet, remember: your BMP count might be getting into dangerous territory. Try to imagine that same sentence with "to read a book" substituted for "to watch television, or, um, surf the internet". Hard, isn't it? This is anti-technology bigotry. Pretty surprising at singularityhub.com, huh? That's how pervasive it is.
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#10I must have seen a million of these "benefits of exercise" posts by now - everybody seems to think that exercise is a good thing, but making another post isn't going to change anything, people are still not going to exercise; making a drug that simulates the effects of exercise would change everything.
So why aren't people working on that?