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Exercise addiction article
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As I am currently running with a stress fracture... #guilty
https://www.washingtonpost.com/...m_term=.82f3d528c9d1
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Article from 1984. . . . .
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Let's ignore all the people addicted to money/success in work and ignore their kids/wife/health and die of stress and hypertension early in life. You know, the leading cause of death in people in the US. The one caused by excess stress, poor diet, no exercise, and genetics.


Before we get into all the "pushing it in endurance sports kills people" and "unhealthy addictions of sport".........let's review this important quote:

Other obligate runners -- apparently Fixx was in this group -- fail to seek medical opinion despite the fact they have reason to believe that they might be genetically predisposed to coronary disease or other health problems. Fixx's father had a heart attack at the age of 35 and died of heart disease at 43. Nevertheless, Fixx last December adamantly refused to take a stress test even though it was pressed on him at the Aerobics Center in Dallas.
This failure to seek help is particularly tragic since many of these people could now be treated by coronary bypass surgery.
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synthetic wrote:
As I am currently running with a stress fracture... #guilty
https://www.washingtonpost.com/...m_term=.82f3d528c9d1

The author of this article is not talking to runners. The author is talking to a voice in his/her head that says 'You have been trying to go to gym regularly for 17 years now.'
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