Athletes get exercise and probably have a healthier diet, especially at that level. Living longer is not surprising.
Yea their whole livelihood is making themselves as fit and healthy as possible.
Well, I don’t think health is really the goal, merely a pleasant side effect in most cases.
Athletes get exercise and probably have a healthier diet
Yes on the exercise, but I’d argue that most athletes pretty much have to consume low-quality, high-calorie food in order to keep up to their caloric needs.
Basically, you can’t consume 10,000 calories of healthy food… too much volume, even if you spread that out through the entire day.
So in that sense, the power of exercise is pretty amazing, if it can combat the effects of a poor diet for all those years. Then again, if they are consuming a healthy diet when they are not actively competing/training (i.e. on their off days), they’re probably undoing a lot of damage just from that.
There’s no such thing as a “healthy food” or “unhealthy food” in absolute terms. It’s all dependent on the totality of your diet and everything else going on in your life. You don’t use an excavator to clear the table after dinner in your fifth floor apartment because that comes with a whole host of problems, but you would use one to move multiple tons of gravel across a construction site. Saying that exercise combats the effects of a poor diet in this context is like saying that working on a construction site negates the negative effects of using an excavator.
There’s no such thing as a “healthy food” or “unhealthy food” in absolute terms.
Sure there is.
You can measure damage causes by eating unhealthy food, often within hours of their consumption.
Inflammatory response, release of certain chemicals in the body, blood flow, etc.
And the opposite it true when you put healthy food into your body.
You can’t outrun a chronically poor diet, especially if its a paleo diet, but it seems like athletes can get away with eating junk food.
