Why we get up so goddam early

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Dragged our sorry tiki ass out of bed for our daily drag around the park this morn, and then came home and saw this....

Want to live a long life? Run

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - People who want to live a long and healthy life might want to take up running. A study published on Monday shows middle-aged members of a runner's club were half as likely to die over a 20-year period as people who did not run.

Running reduced the risk not only of heart disease, but of cancer and neurological diseases such as Alzheimer's, researchers at Stanford University in California found.

"At 19 years, 15 percent of runners had died compared with 34 percent of controls," Dr. Eliza Chakravarty and colleagues wrote in the Archives of Internal Medicine.

Yay, us.

But, you may ask, what about cranky old people???

People who took up exercise when they were older also improved their health, he said.

But, but, what about my knees?

The study also showed that people cannot use the risk of injury as an excuse not to run -- the runners had fewer injuries of all kinds, including to their knees.

PWND.