EXERCISES REDUCES CORONARIES

Saturday, September 12, 2009

A Danish team which did some work on the mortality of people between the ages of 25 and 50 found that the mortality of athletes was, on an average, at least 30 per cent less than that of people who did not exercise. A study was made some years ago of a group of bus drivers and bus conductors. It was found that the incidence of coronary disease was higher among bus drivers compared to bus conductors, as the work of the conductors entailed a considerable amount of strenuous physical movement during the day. A survey of postmen revealed that they had less coronary disease compared to postal clerks, telephonists and telephone clerks, who had sedentary jobs. An experiment in the U.S.A among American railway men in indicated that the incidence of coronary disease among laborers was far less than among railway staffs such a signalmen, and clerks who had sedentary jobs. In a survey carried our by ‘Professor Morris of the Medical Research Council, U.K. of made civil service staff, it was found that of the 17,000 people studied, 232 had coronary thrombosis.