Enquiry

Loved this article I read in the NY Times:

Researchers in Germany, using advances in neuroscience, report in the current issue of the journal Cerebral Cortex that the folk belief is true: Running does elicit a flood of endorphins in the brain. The endorphins are associated with mood changes, and the more endorphins a runner’s body pumps out, the greater the effect.

Of course I, like many others, have always known this is true. It’s an interesting, informative, somewhat pleasing article — so why did I say I love the article? Because I just got home from running! Yay for happy coincidences.

But if running gets you high perhaps we need to ban it. How can we allow Big Sneaker to peddle their Nikes and Reeboks to our children?