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Slow walking at 45 'a sign of faster ageing'

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Re: Slow walking at 45 'a sign of faster ageing'

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Post by timClicks »

mikedilger wrote: post #9

Study link: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle... The study was done in NZ in Dunedin. I wonder how much difference/coorelation there is between locales. I've found that Wellingtonians walk very fast in general - I thought I was a fast walker always passing people in San Francisco, but when I moved to Wellington everybody was passing me.

It's amazing that the Dunedin Study is still producing results like this. I wonder why longitudinal studies are not more common now, given that these 900 people have been such a deep source of knowledge.

Re: Slow walking at 45 'a sign of faster ageing'

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Post by nostrademons »

greysphere wrote: post #3

This sounds like one of the billion things correlated with having less money. https://www.citylab.com/life/2012/03/why-people-cities-walk-...

And to g, that statistical construct that's most commonly associated with IQ but also correlates heavily with general health and economic outcomes.

Re: Slow walking at 45 'a sign of faster ageing'

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Post by AssTrolladjer »

This shit will not replicate. Classic p-value hacking, if not total fiction, dreamt up to pad chum buckets. It is junk science to the core. I'd bet one thousand dollars that another researcher could wrangle contradictory data with a diametrically opposed result.

This trash infotainment has been selected because it is inconsequential to the point of being astrology. No individual can take this "discovery" and apply it to their daily life, but most importantly, it's been selected such that should any moron try it out on their own, they won't be able cause harm. Perfect fodder for the BBC nanny state media.

So... what's your sign?

Re: Slow walking at 45 'a sign of faster ageing'

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Post by thewileyone »

Scoundreller wrote: post #2

> A number of treatments, from low-calorie diets to taking the drug metformin, are currently being investigated. Everything I read about metformin is exciting: cheap, simple structure, causes weight loss, reduced all-cause mortality in diabetics (ie: they studied it long enough to make sure it works, not just to ensure it reduces blood sugar), reduces blood sugar without hypoglycemia and might prevent cancer.

Metformin damages the liver as a side effect.

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Post by HlessClaudesman »

aiexplorations wrote: post #5

At the risk of sounding like confirmation bias, I have found many relatives and friends to adhere to this kind of simple rule. The more agile and active you in middle age, the better your sleep quality probably is, and both of these are a proxy for how well you will age, apart from genes.

Use it or lose it.

Re: Slow walking at 45 'a sign of faster ageing'

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Post by Someone »

”Even at the age of 45, there was a wide variation in walking speeds with the fastest moving at 4m/s at top speed (without running).”

4m/s? That’s 14,4 km/hour. They must have met a racewalker (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_world_records_in_maste... says the world record for 45 year old for 5k is 20:28:28. That’s almost exactly that speed)

I can surely imagine those walking at those speeds to be healthier than average.

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Post by saryant »

mikedilger wrote: post #9

Study link: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle... The study was done in NZ in Dunedin. I wonder how much difference/coorelation there is between locales. I've found that Wellingtonians walk very fast in general - I thought I was a fast walker always passing people in San Francisco, but when I moved to Wellington everybody was passing me.

Well it helps when the wind is pushing you along.

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Post by gokhan »

thewileyone wrote: post #24
Scoundreller wrote: post #2

> A number of treatments, from low-calorie diets to taking the drug metformin, are currently being investigated. Everything I read about metformin is exciting: cheap, simple structure, causes weight loss, reduced all-cause mortality in diabetics (ie: they studied it long enough to make sure it works, not just to ensure it reduces blood sugar), reduces blood sugar without hypoglycemia and might prevent cancer.

Metformin damages the liver as a side effect.

Can you provide your source? This one says otherwise, I'm really interested in your source as someone taking M daily:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20452916

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Post by ekianjo »

Someone wrote: post #26

”Even at the age of 45, there was a wide variation in walking speeds with the fastest moving at 4m/s at top speed (without running).” 4m/s? That’s 14,4 km/hour. They must have met a racewalker ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_world_records_in_maste... says the world record for 45 year old for 5k is 20:28:28. That’s almost exactly that speed) I can surely imagine those walking at those speeds to be healthier th…

Looks like they edited their article:

> Even at the age of 45, there was a wide variation in walking speeds with the fastest moving at 2m/s at top speed (without running).

Re: Slow walking at 45 'a sign of faster ageing'

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Post by benj111 »

nostrademons wrote: post #22
greysphere wrote: post #3

This sounds like one of the billion things correlated with having less money. https://www.citylab.com/life/2012/03/why-people-cities-walk-...

And to g, that statistical construct that's most commonly associated with IQ but also correlates heavily with general health and economic outcomes.

Tell me more about g.

Google is unsurprisingly being unhelpful.

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