Daily Mail : You might as well stay on the couch

snowbike
snowbike Posts: 153 Member
in Fitness and Exercise
You might as well stay on the couch because keeping fit 'can't stop our muscles ageing'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2297284/You-stay-couch-keeping-fit-stop-muscles-ageing.html#comments


GRRR! How does articles like this allow to be published!!!
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  • TheYoungys
    TheYoungys Posts: 44 Member
    Well, for one it appeals to the DM readers who want an excuse to ignore exercise and over indulge in their red wine and M&S ready meals without guilt. :-)
  • jimmmer
    jimmmer Posts: 3,515 Member
    Tried to comment, but the Daily Fascist wasn't allowing it!
  • zen82
    zen82 Posts: 81 Member
    I can't stop my teeth from ageing either but I still brush them! Daily Fail strikes again!
  • Tats1000
    Tats1000 Posts: 36 Member
    Couldn't be bothered to read it. What a stupid thing to publish. No wonder our nation is getting fatter by the minute. That's the tabloids for you though innit, moan we are fat but then technically encourage obesive behaviour.
  • myofibril
    myofibril Posts: 4,500 Member
    I can't stop my teeth from ageing either but I still brush them! Daily Fail strikes again!

    Let's be honest, if we believed everything printed in the Daily Heil then we would never leave the house or couch as we would be too scared to...
  • cluthab
    cluthab Posts: 48 Member
    As soon as someone says they read the DM my heart sinks.
  • sijomial
    sijomial Posts: 19,809 Member
    Surprised they aren't blaming the French/Germans/EU/Welfare Scroungers/Labour Party for making people age...

    Don't worry though - next week's article will be "The Killer in Your Living Room - That Couch is Going to Kill You!"
  • PeauxPeaux
    PeauxPeaux Posts: 71 Member
    LOL I am going to write for them now---the article I will pitch will be called

    YOU MIGHT AS WELL SIT ON THE COUCH: EXERCISE PROVEN TO NOT STOP DEATH.

    The hunt for immortality today suffered another low blow when jogger Jane Poodlepie was run over by a truck, and died! All the running in the world could not make her faster than the truck.!

    Scientists have also recently noted that people, no matter how much or how little exercise they get, tend to die. Eventually. Every single one.

    "That's crazy!" Said Steve Littleberg, when told the news while lifting at his local gym. "Screw this then," Littleberg added, and stomped off to eat a lot of chips.
  • dillydally123
    dillydally123 Posts: 139 Member
    which reminds me of this stroke of genius http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eBT6OSr1TI
  • SRH7
    SRH7 Posts: 2,037 Member
    I wrote for them years ago and they will print any old tosh if it will sell papers. It helped pay the rent for a while so can't complain on a personal level but they are not known for always getting their facts right (same goes for most of the media, to be honest). All editors know they can get away with it as the worst that can happen is that they will have to print a two paragraph apology on page 113.
  • SRH7
    SRH7 Posts: 2,037 Member
    Surprised they aren't blaming the French/Germans/EU/Welfare Scroungers/Labour Party for making people age...

    Don't worry though - next week's article will be "The Killer in Your Living Room - That Couch is Going to Kill You!"

    :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
  • BerryH
    BerryH Posts: 4,698 Member
    YOU MIGHT AS WELL SIT ON THE COUCH: EXERCISE PROVEN TO NOT STOP DEATH.
    And "Women over the age of 40 who work out look scrawny and ugly".

    So much bad science and misleadingly out of context research and expert quotes! Grrr!

    I once sold a health article to the DM, my soul has never felt clean since.
  • TriShamelessly
    TriShamelessly Posts: 905 Member
    LOL I am going to write for them now---the article I will pitch will be called

    YOU MIGHT AS WELL SIT ON THE COUCH: EXERCISE PROVEN TO NOT STOP DEATH.

    The hunt for immortality today suffered another low blow when jogger Jane Poodlepie was run over by a truck, and died! All the running in the world could not make her faster than the truck.!

    Scientists have also recently noted that people, no matter how much or how little exercise they get, tend to die. Eventually. Every single one.

    "That's crazy!" Said Steve Littleberg, when told the news while lifting at his local gym. "Screw this then," Littleberg added, and stomped off to eat a lot of chips.

    Too funny!!!
    The original article, on the other hand, is a load of horse manure.
  • MrsSWW
    MrsSWW Posts: 1,585 Member
    "That's crazy!" Said Steve Littleberg, when told the news while lifting at his local gym. "Screw this then," Littleberg added, and stomped off to eat a lot of chips.
    *drops dumbbells and follows Steve to the chippy*
  • HeidiMightyRawr
    HeidiMightyRawr Posts: 3,343 Member
    Ah the Daily Fail...

    Now, I do love to read it, but at the same time it's full of an awful lot of crap.

    Just the other day I saw an article on a woman who lost her excess stomach fat. She and her trainer spoke about what they did to lose the 7lbs (it was over a reasonable number of weeks) The thing that got me was I saw that her trainer told her "it's bread or body" once you hit 40. Ie: Once you're that age you can't eat bread/pasta.... any more unless you want to stay fat.

    I've also seen numerous articles on people who lost weight really unhealthily, but they were being praised for this.

    That paper has THE worst health/fitness advice ever. I still can't look away though!

    ETA: Just read the article. SO frustrating! People "just cannot grow muscle tissue" because they're not training or eating in a way to grow it. It's hard enough to begin with, if you add in age / less testosterone it's even harder. It can be done though. I'd love to see what exercise the people in the study actually did.
  • darrensurrey
    darrensurrey Posts: 3,942 Member
    So "Professor Timmons, who specialises in systems biology at Loughborough's Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences department", is wrong?

    Presumably, he monitored diet (inc protein intake) and exercise, as, being a professor, he'd be quite used to doing research.
  • ndj1979
    ndj1979 Posts: 29,136 Member
    what a load of crap ...they also say that exercise will lead to high blood pressure? here is the quote

    "He warned that repetitive exercise could cause more than one in ten people to suffer high blood pressure and place 9 per cent at higher risk of diabetes."


    Are you freaking kidding me? This guy has got to be a quack. So if you sit on the couch and do nothing your blood pressure will be better???????
  • darrensurrey
    darrensurrey Posts: 3,942 Member
    what a load of crap ...they also say that exercise will lead to high blood pressure? here is the quote

    "He warned that repetitive exercise could cause more than one in ten people to suffer high blood pressure and place 9 per cent at higher risk of diabetes."


    Are you freaking kidding me? This guy has got to be a quack. So if you sit on the couch and do nothing your blood pressure will be better???????

    Yeah, I wondered that. They (docs) say we should do exercise to avoid diabetes!

    Mind you, it's a small percentage of people who don't react as others do so maybe it's true.
  • pennydreadful270
    pennydreadful270 Posts: 266 Member
    So "Professor Timmons, who specialises in systems biology at Loughborough's Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences department", is wrong?

    Presumably, he monitored diet (inc protein intake) and exercise, as, being a professor, he'd be quite used to doing research.

    Hmm, shouldn't be hard to track his record down then.

    http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ssehs/staff/professor-jamie-timmons-.html
  • LozPenguin
    LozPenguin Posts: 139 Member
    Not even going to read it, how ridiculous. Next month they'll have a big article about rising obesity rates and the 'lazy nation' of depressed unhealthy people who never leave their lounge rooms.

    Sadly, there are plenty of people who will read it and readily accept it, because it gives them the justification they're looking for. :( irresponsible reporting!
  • darrensurrey
    darrensurrey Posts: 3,942 Member
    So "Professor Timmons, who specialises in systems biology at Loughborough's Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences department", is wrong?

    Presumably, he monitored diet (inc protein intake) and exercise, as, being a professor, he'd be quite used to doing research.

    Hmm, shouldn't be hard to track his record down then.

    http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ssehs/staff/professor-jamie-timmons-.html

    Well, he's slightly more qualified to comment on matters than I am. :bigsmile:
  • myofibril
    myofibril Posts: 4,500 Member
    So "Professor Timmons, who specialises in systems biology at Loughborough's Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences department", is wrong?

    Presumably, he monitored diet (inc protein intake) and exercise, as, being a professor, he'd be quite used to doing research.

    Hmm, shouldn't be hard to track his record down then.

    http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ssehs/staff/professor-jamie-timmons-.html

    Well, he's slightly more qualified to comment on matters than I am. :bigsmile:

    Or the writer who spun the findings to come up with some over sensationalised opinion piece...
  • pennydreadful270
    pennydreadful270 Posts: 266 Member
    I think this is the journal article it is based on, if you would believe!

    http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v488/n7413/full/nature11364.html?WT.ec_id=NATURE-20120830

    Sadly I don't have journal access, so I can only see the abstract, but it looks quite interesting in regards to the idea that extra muscle creates more brown fat and increases metabolism- or rather that maybe it does not.
  • majope
    majope Posts: 1,325 Member
    "He warned that repetitive exercise could cause more than one in ten people to suffer high blood pressure and place 9 per cent at higher risk of diabetes."
    Imagining the actual interview:
    Prof: Repetitive exercise is quite beneficial. Fully 9 out of 10 people who exercise show a drop in blood pressure, and 10 out of 11 greatly reduce their risk of diabetes.

    Daily Mail: Wait...so not EVERYBODY benefits?

    Prof: That's not exactly what I...

    Daily Mail: That 1 out of 10 on the blood pressure...if their blood pressure doesn't go down, does that mean it goes up?

    Prof: That's one possible scenario, but--

    Daily Mail: Same for the diabetes, right?

    Prof: Well, statistically speaking, among the people who don't show improvement it's theoretically possible that some show worse markers, but really, my point was--

    Daily Mail: Thank you. We're done.
  • jimmmer
    jimmmer Posts: 3,515 Member
    So "Professor Timmons, who specialises in systems biology at Loughborough's Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences department", is wrong?

    Presumably, he monitored diet (inc protein intake) and exercise, as, being a professor, he'd be quite used to doing research.

    Hmm, shouldn't be hard to track his record down then.

    http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ssehs/staff/professor-jamie-timmons-.html

    Well, he's slightly more qualified to comment on matters than I am. :bigsmile:

    Or the writer who spun the findings to come up with some over sensationalised opinion piece...

    This.

    Science is spectacularly mis-reported by newspapers......
  • AmandaW01
    AmandaW01 Posts: 138
    Oh good, I was worried that the Daily Fail hadn't posted a 'fitness is bad for you' article in a few days - I feel refreshed now! What a load of utter bo**ocks... I would LOVE for the good Prof to come on here and see some of our older member who look incredible and have changed their bodies!

    I too saw the article a week or two ago that said after 40 its your body or bread, you can't have both... yeh, ok... it makes me so mad!
  • Iron_Feline
    Iron_Feline Posts: 10,750 Member
    Sadly I cannot read the daily fail online as I have kitten block - I suggest everyone gets it to help their blood pressure :laugh:

    http://www.teaandkittens.co.uk/
  • joolywooly33
    joolywooly33 Posts: 421 Member
    which reminds me of this stroke of genius http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eBT6OSr1TI

    Love this song lol
  • snowbike
    snowbike Posts: 153 Member
    Sadly I cannot read the daily fail online as I have kitten block - I suggest everyone gets it to help their blood pressure :laugh:

    http://www.teaandkittens.co.uk/

    Oh thank you! you may have just extended my life 10 years!

    :D
  • Southernb3lle
    Southernb3lle Posts: 862 Member
    Oh good lord, this is the stupidest thing I have ever heard. But like someone else said it gives those another excuse to not even bother.

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