Daily Mail : You might as well stay on the couch

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  • darrensurrey
    darrensurrey Posts: 3,942 Member
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    "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
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    which reminds me of this stroke of genius http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eBT6OSr1TI

    Love this song lol
  • snowbike
    snowbike Posts: 153 Member
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    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
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    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.
  • ms_leanne
    ms_leanne Posts: 523
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    Everybody in the Uk knows...Daily Mail = Daily Fail!

    I know not everyone agrees with transgender people but they have been accused of causing the death of a transgender person through bullying!

    I hate that paper!
  • Southernb3lle
    Southernb3lle Posts: 862 Member
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    Everybody in the Uk knows...Daily Mail = Daily Fail!

    I know not everyone agrees with transgender people but they have been accused of causing the death of a transgender person through bullying!

    I hate that paper!

    Daily Fail..love it!
  • farway
    farway Posts: 1,264 Member
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    Everybody in the Uk knows...Daily Mail = Daily Fail!

    I know not everyone agrees with transgender people but they have been accused of causing the death of a transgender person through bullying!

    I hate that paper!

    Daily Fail..love it!

    I term it Daily Wail, there is a spoof web site of same name, give it a Google to get flavour
  • BerryH
    BerryH Posts: 4,698 Member
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    Check out the Daily Mail Oncology Ontology project, a blog dedicated to tracking the newspaper's ongoing mission to divide all the inanimate objects in the world into those that cause or cure cancer. Sometimes the same thing does both, in the same issue!
    http://dailymailoncology.tumblr.com/

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