and the second blurb, the placebo is one of the most effective drugs, it
seems. it would be great if doctors prescribed more sugar pills intead of
antibiotics in some instances for example :-), not to mention other disease
with a strong psychosomatic component.
b
> In the book Life Extension by Durk Person and
> Sandy Shaw they argue that less exercise is
> better, but this blurb in the John Hopkins
> Medical Letter indicates the opposite:
>
>"While some exercise is better than none, more appears
>to be best, according to a study of runners. The runners'
>risk of coronary heart disease dropped in proportion to
>the amount of exercise they did above and beyond the
>recommended 30 minutes of moderate exercise per day.
>Heart disease risk decreased significantly with
>each 10-mile weekly increment in distance."