Disease Found in 99 Percent of Brains Donated by NFL Families

[Martin Hash]

I think all sports are a waste of time. Time that could be better spent in training astronauts, picking up litter, or resurfacing every freeway in America. Ban all sports.

Hey kids, stop playing catch and go pick up some litter or resurface the driveway. When you're done with that, get out of my yard!

Yes this is Martin's worst take that I am aware of.

Humans actually NEED to play games.

I thought that was funny. ("Resurfacing" should have gave it away. Have you ever heard that before? "resurfacing every freeway in America." Funny shit, there, Sherlock.)

[apeman]

Hey kids, stop playing catch and go pick up some litter or resurface the driveway. When you're done with that, get out of my yard!

Yes this is Martin's worst take that I am aware of.

Humans actually NEED to play games.

I thought that was funny. ("Resurfacing" should have gave it away. Have you ever heard that before? "resurfacing every freeway in America." Funny shit, there, Sherlock.)

It was funny

You ever play any sports?

[Hanarchy Montanarchy]

In all seriousness though - what's going to happen to football and/or boxing? Evidence is in, isn't it? Seems like they'll have to make rule changes....

NFL? No idea.

You could fix boxing immediately by removing the gloves. You would have to stop more fights from bleeding, but there would be less concussive damage since without the glove padding, you can't wail away on someone's head whole-hog without breaking your hand.

You would also see body shots increase dramatically as well, since they are a) more effective without big bulky gloves, and b) head shots would be less effective.

[Speaker to Animals]

Let's put this research into some context..

Researchers looked at 47 studies examining the relationship between sitting and mortality, according to the findings, published Jan. 20 in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine. They found that people who sit for long periods were 24 percent more likely to die from health problems during the studies, which lasted between 1 and 16 years, compared with people who sat less. [Don't Sit Tight: 6 Ways to Make a Deadly Activity Healthier]

The 47 studies didn't use a standard cutoff to define how much sitting was too much, but "if you sit more than 8 hours [a day], that's probably linked to a lot of the negative health effects," said the study's lead researcher, Aviroop Biswas, a doctoral candidate at the University of Toronto.

The researchers also found that excessive sitting was associated with an 18 percent increased risk of dying of cardiovascular disease and a 17 percent increased risk of dying from cancer during the study periods. Sitting for too long was tied to a 91 percent increased risk of getting Type 2 diabetes, and about a 13 and 14 percent increase in the risk of being diagnosed with cancer or heart problems during the studies, respectively.

Among studies that looked at cancer type, sitting for too long was associated with a higher risk of being diagnosed with, or dying of, breast, colon, colorectal, endometrial and ovarian cancers, the researchers found.

The researchers also found that the people who exercised generally faced lower risks of these health conditions than those who didn't exercise. But exercising did not completely counteract the risks that came with sitting for a long time. For example, people who sit for long periods, but also exercise, were one-third less likely to die during the studies than the people who reported little or no exercise, according to 10 of the 47 studies.

Other research has linked increased sitting with health problems, but this is analysis is one of the largest and most rigorous, and included nearly 830,000 people who died from health problems, 550,000 people who developed heart problems and 745,000 people who developed cancer, the researchers said.

https://www.livescience.com/49518-sitti ... -risk.html



Seems to me, working in a cube farm for 8-12 hours every weekday is more dangerous for your health than getting beat up on a football field (while making millions of dollars and swimming in trim).

[Ex-California]

Let's put this research into some context..

Researchers looked at 47 studies examining the relationship between sitting and mortality, according to the findings, published Jan. 20 in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine. They found that people who sit for long periods were 24 percent more likely to die from health problems during the studies, which lasted between 1 and 16 years, compared with people who sat less. [Don't Sit Tight: 6 Ways to Make a Deadly Activity Healthier]

The 47 studies didn't use a standard cutoff to define how much sitting was too much, but "if you sit more than 8 hours [a day], that's probably linked to a lot of the negative health effects," said the study's lead researcher, Aviroop Biswas, a doctoral candidate at the University of Toronto.

The researchers also found that excessive sitting was associated with an 18 percent increased risk of dying of cardiovascular disease and a 17 percent increased risk of dying from cancer during the study periods. Sitting for too long was tied to a 91 percent increased risk of getting Type 2 diabetes, and about a 13 and 14 percent increase in the risk of being diagnosed with cancer or heart problems during the studies, respectively.

Among studies that looked at cancer type, sitting for too long was associated with a higher risk of being diagnosed with, or dying of, breast, colon, colorectal, endometrial and ovarian cancers, the researchers found.

The researchers also found that the people who exercised generally faced lower risks of these health conditions than those who didn't exercise. But exercising did not completely counteract the risks that came with sitting for a long time. For example, people who sit for long periods, but also exercise, were one-third less likely to die during the studies than the people who reported little or no exercise, according to 10 of the 47 studies.

Other research has linked increased sitting with health problems, but this is analysis is one of the largest and most rigorous, and included nearly 830,000 people who died from health problems, 550,000 people who developed heart problems and 745,000 people who developed cancer, the researchers said.

https://www.livescience.com/49518-sitti ... -risk.html



Seems to me, working in a cube farm for 8-12 hours every weekday is more dangerous for your health than getting beat up on a football field (while making millions of dollars and swimming in trim).

Not to mention being paid to train and workout for years

[Martin Hash]

Yes this is Martin's worst take that I am aware of.

Humans actually NEED to play games.

I thought that was funny. ("Resurfacing" should have gave it away. Have you ever heard that before? "resurfacing every freeway in America." Funny shit, there, Sherlock.)

It was funny

You ever play any sports?

I'm surprisingly good at sports, or was anyway when I played sports. #1 at my racketball club. Tennis, ping pong, badminton. A scoring machine in basketball. (Football, not so much.)

I still hike like a mutterfukker.

[Kazmyr]

Roddy White of the Falcons, back in 2012:

Roddy White tweets on concussion lawsuits: 'You signed up to play a violent game'

No i love playing football if i cant walk when im 50 it was well worth it

[heydaralon]

I don't get it those football players 99% got a brain disease from Occupy Wall Street?

[apeman]

I thought that was funny. ("Resurfacing" should have gave it away. Have you ever heard that before? "resurfacing every freeway in America." Funny shit, there, Sherlock.)

It was funny

You ever play any sports?

I'm surprisingly good at sports, or was anyway when I played sports. #1 at my racketball club. Tennis, ping pong, badminton. A scoring machine in basketball. (Football, not so much.)

I still hike like a mutterfukker.

Bball is legit, gotta have all around athleticism and be able to make cooperative decisions on the fly.

[StCapps]

Rocky just needed to go 12 rounds with Creed. He didn't knock him out.

If Conor McGregor makes it the distance with Floyd Mayweather it would be a bigger victory than Rocky doing the same against Apollo Creed, and that was a movie, so that's saying something. Anything can happen is not valid analysis, anything can happen in any pretty much any fight, that does not mean that it's going to even come close to happening. Floyd has faced dude's with a much better puncher's chance against him than Conor McGregor does, how did that work out for them?