Paris (AFP) - As New York limbers up to host the world's bigger chase on Sunday, runners about the apple will be picturing its acclaimed accomplishment band to advance for that added kilometre (mile).
But is active absolutely acceptable for your health? Yes, say experts, as continued as you are careful.
- Active for a best action -
Runners are 30 percent beneath acceptable to accept a abortive afterlife and 45 percent beneath acceptable to die from cardiovascular ache than non-runners, according to a US abstraction arise March in the account Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases.
They can alike apprehend to alive for three years longer, the abstraction found. And these allowances arise to beat that of all added concrete activities.
"Running may be the best cost-effective affairs anesthetic from a accessible bloom perspective," the study's authors said.
The analysis analysed the abstracts of 55,000 men and women age-old 18 to 100 from a 2014 abstraction arise in the Account of the American College of Cardiology (JACC).
"Running has abounding benefits. It is acceptable for the absolute cardiovascular system, from the affection to claret vessels," sports cardiologist Stephane Cade told AFP.
Running additionally has a absolute aftereffect on your mind.
"It helps your brainy bloom by bearing hormones, endorphins, which accord you a action of well-being," said Julien Schipman, a sports bloom specialist at France's Institute of Sport and Performance (INSEP).
- But there are risks -
So active can be actual acceptable for your health, but you charge to booty precautions.
"Someone who has never done it afore should see a doctor for a check-up," said Schipman.
Your age, weight, medical history and affairs -- whether you smoke or alcohol -- can all add up to accomplish active a added chancy prospect.
"After 30 to 35 years, the bigger risks are affection attacks and abrupt death," Cade said.
"Deaths are generally affiliated to affection ache which went disregarded until actuality triggered by running."
A contempo archetype came in October, aback Tunisia's 56-year-old bloom abbot died of a affection advance while active 500 metres in a alms marathon.
Beyond affection risks, runners charge to accept to their anatomy to abstain injuries to their legs, lower aback and abnormally their knees.
"Tissues such as ligaments, tendons and cartilage are decidedly at accident because they acclimate added boring than anatomy to added automated load," according to a Dutch abstraction in 2015.
- How generally do you charge to run? -
The Apple Bloom Organisation (WHO) recommends adults accept 150 account of abstinent acuteness concrete activity, such as active walking, or 75 account of active acuteness activity, like running, every week.
But, according to the JACC 2014 study, active bristles to ten account a day could be as benign as a continued jog aback it comes to preventing cardiovascular disease.
The abstraction did not acquisition a cogent aberration amid those who ran 50 account a anniversary and those who ran 180 account a anniversary -- alike if they ran slowly.
"The account is greater if you alter the clip aback you run -- it is bigger for the heart," Cade said.
- Afore you alpha -
When you accept the blooming ablaze from the doctor and are accessible to hit the track, there are still some rules to accumulate in mind.
"Avoid active in hot acclimate or aerial pollution," warned Schipman.
"It is recommended that you change your shoes every 1,000 kilometres or every year."
As able-bodied as acceptable shock-absorbing active shoes, minimalist shoes are currently in fashion, with attenuate soles to accord the awareness of active barefoot.
Barefoot runners tend to acreage on the brawl of their anxiety first, rather than their heels.
Studies accept not yet actually bent which is bigger to abstain abrasion aback running.
