<story><title>A hot bath has benefits similar to exercise</title><url>http://theconversation.com/a-hot-bath-has-benefits-similar-to-exercise-74600</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zeteo</author><text>&amp;gt; Exercising (moderate physical activity) for 2-2.5 hours per week leads to a 20% reduction in all-cause mortality (not to mention its many other benefits). Exercising for an additional 5.5 hours leads to another 20% reduction.&lt;p&gt;With a very important caveat in the report:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Because all of the studies in the evidence base were observational epidemiologic studies
with no randomized controlled trials, the data cannot prove causality of effect.&lt;p&gt;People who don&amp;#x27;t feel that great when they exercise (despite everyone urging them to exercise) are probably not in the best health. The pervasive advice to exercise more will by itself confound the studies, because healthier people will tend to self-select into the &amp;quot;exercise&amp;quot; group.</text></item><item><author>joshgel</author><text>Exercising (moderate physical activity) for 2-2.5 hours per week leads to a 20% reduction in all-cause mortality (not to mention its many other benefits). Exercising for an additional 5.5 hours leads to another 20% reduction.&lt;p&gt;No preventative intervention we have in medicine leads to that kind of gains (except maybe quiting smoking).&lt;p&gt;Articles like this are probably causing harm to the people that read them by discouraging them from exercise [conjecture]. Until I see rigorous mortality data on taking bath, I think I&amp;#x27;ll stick to my exercise routine...&lt;p&gt;Source: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cdc.gov&amp;#x2F;physicalactivity&amp;#x2F;resources&amp;#x2F;recommendations.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cdc.gov&amp;#x2F;physicalactivity&amp;#x2F;resources&amp;#x2F;recommendatio...&lt;/a&gt; (see 2008 Physical Activity Guidelines Advisory Committee Report [PDF - 4.5MB])</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>woliveirajr</author><text>This.&lt;p&gt;And even your willing to exercise changes during live. It was easier and fun to exercise when was a teenager and so on. Become lot less when gained almost 40 pounds in a month due to medication. Become even less interesting when would get hurt for exercising while overweight. Become a no-go when got a muscle strain for simply going downstairs because a physiotherapist pushed a bit too much and was under muscular fatigue.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;d prefer to take a bath and have some benefits that fell all that pain again and immobilize my leg and loose what I&amp;#x27;ve earned in the past 4 months.&lt;p&gt;For those who already like to exercise (or are willing to despite saying &amp;quot;I don&amp;#x27;t like, just like the benefits&amp;quot;, or any kind of wording of this idea), well, this study won&amp;#x27;t make a difference.&lt;p&gt;For me, yes, it makes.</text></comment>
<story><title>A hot bath has benefits similar to exercise</title><url>http://theconversation.com/a-hot-bath-has-benefits-similar-to-exercise-74600</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zeteo</author><text>&amp;gt; Exercising (moderate physical activity) for 2-2.5 hours per week leads to a 20% reduction in all-cause mortality (not to mention its many other benefits). Exercising for an additional 5.5 hours leads to another 20% reduction.&lt;p&gt;With a very important caveat in the report:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Because all of the studies in the evidence base were observational epidemiologic studies
with no randomized controlled trials, the data cannot prove causality of effect.&lt;p&gt;People who don&amp;#x27;t feel that great when they exercise (despite everyone urging them to exercise) are probably not in the best health. The pervasive advice to exercise more will by itself confound the studies, because healthier people will tend to self-select into the &amp;quot;exercise&amp;quot; group.</text></item><item><author>joshgel</author><text>Exercising (moderate physical activity) for 2-2.5 hours per week leads to a 20% reduction in all-cause mortality (not to mention its many other benefits). Exercising for an additional 5.5 hours leads to another 20% reduction.&lt;p&gt;No preventative intervention we have in medicine leads to that kind of gains (except maybe quiting smoking).&lt;p&gt;Articles like this are probably causing harm to the people that read them by discouraging them from exercise [conjecture]. Until I see rigorous mortality data on taking bath, I think I&amp;#x27;ll stick to my exercise routine...&lt;p&gt;Source: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cdc.gov&amp;#x2F;physicalactivity&amp;#x2F;resources&amp;#x2F;recommendations.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cdc.gov&amp;#x2F;physicalactivity&amp;#x2F;resources&amp;#x2F;recommendatio...&lt;/a&gt; (see 2008 Physical Activity Guidelines Advisory Committee Report [PDF - 4.5MB])</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>joshgel</author><text>I agree with your comments entirely. I&amp;#x27;ll also add, however, that even though this is cohort data 1) there is A LOT of data, almost all of it in agreement for hundreds and hundreds of studies, over millions of person years and 2) there is pretty strong evidence of a dose-response relationship. Both of those two points &lt;i&gt;help&lt;/i&gt; (though don&amp;#x27;t entirely eliminate) the weaknesses inherent in cohort data.</text></comment>