[ConservativeMind]

This is an association, but, clearly, if you can get the additional speed, it shouldn’t hurt and could get you the benefit described above.

[ConservativeMind]

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[Leaning Right]

As an older person right on that A1C edge, I appreciate all your posts. And this one in particular. I’d like to say more, but I’d better quit typing and go out for a walk!

Thanks

[glorgau]

IOW, all you fat asses speed it up and quit your waddling. ;-)

[sauropod]

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[jdt1138]

Don’t fool yourself. Exercise and diet are the key to a good life.

[ought-six]

That’s only about 2.5 MPH, which is an average pace for a healthy adult.

[DannyTN]

I walk pretty fast. It’s only from the recliner to the bathroom, but it’s every hour. Does that count?

[Taffini]

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[dfwgator]

Just did my 1-hour lunchtime walk, 3.5 miles.

[minnesota_bound]

Jeremy Clarkson of Top Gear and The Grand Tour wrote an article about this.

Clarkson’s Columns: “10,000 steps a day? I’m not a postman
https://www.reddit.com/r/thegrandtour/comments/18axdto/clarksons_columns_10000_steps_a_day_im_not_a/

By Jeremy Clarkson (The Sunday Times, Dec. 03)
I’m a busy man. I write two newspaper columns every week for The Sunday Times and one for The Sun, I run a farm and I have a brewery. And a shop. I also present two television shows on Amazon and one on ITV. So when I hear that a man of my age should do 10,000 steps a day, I just think: “Right, and how on earth would I find the time to do that?”

-snip-
I do make time to walk the dogs, but I’ve just checked the health app thing on my phone, and it seems that during this daily, hour-long stroll through the woods, I only ever do a maximum of 2,000 steps. So, to do 10,000 steps I’d need to be out there for five hours. And who has five free hours in a day?

[Mr Rogers]

This is another backwards study.

“As with all population studies, there was a healthy person confounder The person who reported walking briskly was substantially younger, they had far lower BMI, they did massively more exercise during the week, and they were far less likely to smoke. These were adjusted for, but you can’t adjust for the whole person.

* Given that this was self-reported, the younger, slimmer, fitter, non-smokers reported walking faster and the younger, slimmer, fitter, non-smokers are less likely to die in the next 12-13 years.

* When I see someone walking briskly, I think “there’s a healthy person.” I don’t think “walking briskly has made that person healthy.” The researchers should have thought the same.”

https://www.zoeharcombe.com/2023/12/can-brisk-walking-make-you-live-longer/

[dennisw]

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