The speed at which you walk, for example, can be eerily predictive of health status. In a study of nearly 35,000 people aged 65 years or older in the Journal of the American Medical Association, those who walked at about 2.6 feet per second over a short distance — which would amount to a mile in about 33 minutes — were likely to hit their average life expectancy. With every speed increase of around 4 inches per second, the chance of dying in the next decade fell by about 12 percent. (Whenever I think about this study, I start walking faster.) | |
— James Hamblin, MD | |
From his article: “The Power of One Push-Up: Several simple ways of measuring a person’s health might matter more than body weight.“ | |
Appearing in: The Atlantic; dtd: Jun 27, 2019 | |
The specific article can be found on-line at: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2019/06/push-ups-body-weight-bmi/592834/ | |
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I Walk Faster (Too)
July 5, 2019 by kmabarrett
I’m on it! )
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