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We 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.)



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


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.


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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