No, Too Much Jogging Probably Won’t Kill You

One again lazy health journalists have fallen down on the job and performed a disservice to the public. The new outrage: a multitude of media reports about a small study on the effect of jogging on mortality. Here are just a few headlines, published minutes after the study was published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology:

But a careful reading of the paper shows that this small study provides nowhere near enough evidence to support these headlines.

Click here to read the full post on Forbes.

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Comments

  1. This stuff drives me crazy – mostly because it fuels my parents being angry about my running!

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