If there is, people who exercise are reducing their life. When the craze for exercise began in the 80's, these people are only in their 40's now, so there is no evident that people who exercise will live longer, and scientists have been wrong before. The heart is only a muscle. You might be making it stronger by exercise but whose to say you will live any longer.
People who are in their 80's and older now, had poor diets, polution, couldn't afford health care, war, barely had enough to eat never mind worrying about their fat intake, vitamins, folic acid, sugar, etc. yet they have survived to old age without all these low calorie, high fibre diets these doctors say we need to function properly.
It just makes me question these so called experts. In the future are we going to be told they got it all wrong and nothing you do will make you live any longer than you are supposed to. Even if that means you die at 20 or 100. When your times up, it's up.
2007-02-03 21:34:18 · 13 answers · asked by pampurredpuss 5 in Health ➔ Diet & Fitness
My mum is 83 years old this year. She never exercised any more than anyone else when she was young. Her basic diet for years was bread and dripping, broken dog biscuits, mouldy fruit, the tail off a fish that her father would have for his dinner, and if she was lucky a piece of stale bread with jam.
Would we survive on a diet like that? Who knows, but she did and so did millions of others who are still around today.
I really do believe that diet and exercise have nothing to do with your length of time on this earth. That is already decided before we are born and nothing will change that.
2007-02-08 02:42:36 · update #1
Id say your right my dad is 88 mums 84 both worked hard lived with rationing struggled to feed us but we all are still on the go rock on dudes
2007-02-10 12:05:08 · answer #1 · answered by murray 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you do have a limit on the number of heart beats in a lifetime then exercising will help to prolong your life and not shorten it. Regular exercise will slow your resting heart rate, so while you may experience a higher heart rate while exercising you will more than make up for this the rest of the time. For example if you have a resting heart rate of 70 beats per minute which becomes 50 beats per minute through following a regular CV training programme then you are saving 20 beats per minute for most of the day!
I don't think your heart has a set number of beats programmed into it over a lifetime though. The fact is that doing regular exercise strengthens your heart and improves your quality of life, whatever age you are. I think we should all do some.
2007-02-08 04:02:16 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are pre programmed to expire after a specific time.
However,this doesnt necessarily relate to a given number of heartbeats although the beats could be approximately calculated based on an average persons beats per day.
I agree that ones life cannot be prolonged much beyond your expected span.
However,regular excercise and healthy eating can help avoid an earlier than expected death from diseases brought on by poor lifestyle.
There obviously are people who are exceptions to the rule of poor lifestyle equals early death,but by and large the rule stands.
Summing up.The reaper wont be late,but you can stop him coming early.
2007-02-03 21:44:44 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The old people who were exposed to these pollutants are alive because they were more active than we as a generation are. The link between an active lifestyle and increased survival is now certain. Life expectancy is a balance of probabilities the more risks you take on the greater your chance of an early death. Sure everyone knows a smoker who lived to ninety what they fail to remember is the other 99 who died much earlier.
2007-02-03 21:41:28 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
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2017-02-23 23:17:56 · answer #5 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
reading into what you say, maybe we should all stop making love too because it too (if you are doing it right) or (even if you do it badly) makes the heart pump faster. so it would be a bad feeling to think that every time we make love we are taking minutes or hours off our loved ones life .
2007-02-03 21:46:26 · answer #6 · answered by jimmy the man 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There's no standard number of heartbeats. Your heart beats from the time it is formed enough in the womb and keeps going until you die.
2007-02-03 21:42:37 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Only God knows the answer to that one.
2007-02-04 01:31:46 · answer #8 · answered by pheebstersmom 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes - when your heart stops beating - your lifetime is over
2007-02-03 21:42:00 · answer #9 · answered by tom4bucs 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
course there is a limit its when it stops
2007-02-03 21:52:43 · answer #10 · answered by Snot Me 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋