Playing golf adds five years to your life

[swansong]

Not if you do it the way I do :(


GOLFERS are never short of an excuse to take a few swings but now they have a legitimate reason - golf prolongs life.

According to research from Europe's leading medical research institute, playing golf can add five years to a person's life.
A study of 300,000 golfers revealed that they were 40 per cent less likely to die at any given age than those who did not play.
The study, by the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden, revealed the best players, as measured by handicaps, were the healthiest of all.
Despite the lack of physical activity involved in golf, golfers who play a single round of 18 holes usually walk more than 6km.
Golfers have a lower death rate regardless of sex, age and social group, the study found.
The effect is greater for blue-collar workers than for those from white-collar backgrounds.
Professor Anders Ahlbom, who led the study, said while not all golfers had a healthy lifestyle, it is believed playing the game has a significant impact on health.
"Maintaining a low handicap involves playing a lot, so it supports the idea that it is largely the game that is good for the health," he said.

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23799934-401,00.html

[torontodude]

Not if you do it the way I do :(


GOLFERS are never short of an excuse to take a few swings but now they have a legitimate reason - golf prolongs life.

According to research from Europe's leading medical research institute, playing golf can add five years to a person's life.
A study of 300,000 golfers revealed that they were 40 per cent less likely to die at any given age than those who did not play.
The study, by the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden, revealed the best players, as measured by handicaps, were the healthiest of all.
Despite the lack of physical activity involved in golf, golfers who play a single round of 18 holes usually walk more than 6km.
Golfers have a lower death rate regardless of sex, age and social group, the study found.
The effect is greater for blue-collar workers than for those from white-collar backgrounds.
Professor Anders Ahlbom, who led the study, said while not all golfers had a healthy lifestyle, it is believed playing the game has a significant impact on health.
"Maintaining a low handicap involves playing a lot, so it supports the idea that it is largely the game that is good for the health," he said.

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23799934-401,00.html

Thank you so much, I will be sending this to my wife right now.

[Pingnut]

Thank you so much, I will be sending this to my wife right now.

If I sent it to mine - she'd tell me to stop playing :eek: :rofl: :hush:

[Golden Bear]

Playing golf adds five years to your life

Yeesh, another pace-of-play thread.

[focal]

not in N.A. the land of power carts and beer carts....not to mention the cigars, gambling stress and stress from pace of play due to power carts and beer carts.

[Big Johnny69]

not in N.A. the land of power carts and beer carts....not to mention the cigars, gambling stress and stress from pace of play due to power carts and beer carts.

Well aren't you just a bundle of good news. Way to spoil swansong's great find. :p

[landlord]

I don't know about the "lower death rate" they claim. Isn't it still one per person?

[swansong]

I don't know about the "lower death rate" they claim. Isn't it still one per person?

Not if you're Shirley Mcclain...

(too obscure?)

[landlord]

Not if you're Shirley Mcclain...

(too obscure?)
Not for me. I knew her in the 14th century.