区役所からインフルエンザ予防接種の高齢者割引の書類を頂いていたので注射に行きました。数年前にインフルエンザに罹りましたが、その時は家庭内隔離になり上げ膳据え膳でしたが、そのことを今でも恩着せがましく言いますし、予防接種しておかなければ今度罹っても面倒みないと嚇します。
そんなわけで、ここ数年は注射していただいております。
注射には痛い注射とあまり痛くない注射がありますが、今日の注射は痛い方です。今月始めに破傷風予防接種の２回目を注射しましたが、あれよりはずっと痛い。
迷惑をかけまいと呑む風邪ぐすり(岡本眸)
注射を終えて、庄屋で海鮮丼で一合飲んだ。三段構えはやっていないと断られたが、店員が気持ちですと一合徳利の他に猪口一杯におまけを注いで持って来てくれた。気持ちは嬉しい。
徳久利も猪口も上げ底山笑う(菊田一平)
一杯を終えて、もしかしたら頼まなくていけなくなる保証人さまへの手土産を買いにビィーンズに入った。細君が下調べし、電話でお取り置きをお願いしていた”ハロウィーン・ケーキの詰め合わせ”を買った。
行くとすれば明日だが、間に合わないといけないので早め早めに用意との細君のお沙汰である。
義妹のところには娘がいて、義妹共々ケーキにはうるさいらしい。それで細君もいろいろ考えはしたようだが、我が家はケーキに造詣が深くないので、まあ何を持って行ってもあまり大した評価は受けないだろう。
ケーキを仕入れ家に戻ると、ちょうど簡易書留が届き、書類を確認したところ保証人は頼まなくて済んだ。
仕入れたケーキは手土産用から私のお祝い用に転用され一家で食すことになった。
秋鯖を心祝いのありて買ふ(宮下翠舟)
今日のコチコチ読書、
和文、
「“眼” － 王貞治」文春文庫 ９１年版ベスト・エッセイ集 から
継読中。
英文、
Picking up a racket may work better than jogging － by Cretchen Reynolds, NYT September 14, 2018 長寿－テニスはジョギングに優る
を読み終わる。
＊デンマークのサンプルをベースに分析したところでは、テニスなど人との係わりが強いスポーツの方がジョギングやサイクリングなどの単独スポーツより長寿には良いらしい。
ただし、テニス組の方がジョギング組より社会経済的に高い位置にいるからそう言う結果が出ただけであってスポーツの種類によるものではない、という反論も紹介されている。
私も反論の方が“正論”のような気がする。
Picking up a racket may work better than jogging － by Cretchen Reynolds, NYT September 14, 2018 長寿ーテニスはジョギングに優る
Playing tennis and other sports that social might add years to your life, according to a new
epidemiological study of Danish men and women.
The study found that adults who reported frequently participating in tennis or other racket and team sports live longer than people who were sedentary. But they also lived longer than people who took part in reliably healthy but often solitary activities such as jogging, swimming and cycling.
The results raise interesting questions about the role that social interactions might play in augmenting the benefits of exercise.
At this point, no doubts that being physically active improves our health and can extend our longevity. Multiple recent epidemiological studies have pinpointed links between regular exercise and longer lives in men and women.
But whether some activities might be better than others for lengthening life spans remains in dispute. One widely publicized 2017 study of more than 80,000 British men and women found that those who played racket sports tend to outlive those who jogged.
Those results piqued the interest of an international group of scientists. They previously had examined links between jogging and longevity and concluded that modest amounts of moderately paced running led to greater gains in longevity than more-gentle or strenuous running.
For the new study, which was published last week in Mayo Clinic Proceedings, these same researchers decided to widen their inquiry and look at a variety of sports and their association with life and premature death.
To start, they turn to the same data resource they had used for the jogging study, the Copenhagen City Heart Study, which tracks the lives and health of thousands of men and women in Copenhagen.
The study’s participants had all completed health exams and lengthy questionnaires about their lifestyles and whether and how often they took part in cycling, swimming, running, tennis, soccer and badminton.
The researchers zeroed in on 8,600 of the participants who had been part of the study for about 25 years. They cross-referenced records with the national death registry to see if and when any of these people had passed away. Then they compared activities and life spans.
The most obvious finding was that people who had reported almost never exercising were more likely than the active to have died in the ensuing decades.
The associations between particular activities and life span were more surprising.
Cycling was the most popular activity among the Danes in the study, many of whom reported riding for four or more hours every week. Their pedaling was associated with a lengthier life span, adding an average of 3.7 years to riders’ lives, compared to sedentary Danes.
Running likewise was associated with an extra 3.2 years of life.
But these gains were notably less than for playing tennis, which was linked to 9.7 added years of life, or badminton, which was linked to an extra 6.2 years, or soccer, which added almost five years to players’ lives.
These associations remained unchanged even when the researchers controlled for people’s education, socio-economic status and age.
The differing demands of some sports could play a role, said Dr. James O’Keefe, an author of the study and the director of preventive cardiology at the Mid America Heart Institute at Saint Luke’s Health Center in Kansas City, Mo. Income and other aspects of people’s lives also matter, he said.
The researchers tried to account for socioeconomic factors. But it remains possible, he said, that people who have sufficient money and leisure time to play tennis live longer because they have sufficient money and leisure time, not because they play tennis.
Still, he suspects that the social aspects of racket games and other team sports are primary reason that they seem to lengthen lives, Dr. O’Keefe said.
“We know from other research that social support provides stress mitigation,” he said. So being with other people, playing and interacting with them, as you do when you play games that require a partner or a team, probably has unique psychological and physical effects.
