Greater fitness, longer life
A new study shows a strong correlation between being in shape and mortality
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(Above) Runners in the 10km race at the ST Run in September. A new study found that the greater someone's fitness, the less likely he was to have died prematurely and vice versa.
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NEW YORK • Being in shape may be as important to a long life as not smoking, according to a new study of the links between fitness and mortality.
The study also explores whether there is any ceiling to the benefits of fitness - whether, in essence, you can exercise too much. The answer, it found, is a reassuring no.
