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AT study published in this week's issue of JAMA Internal Medicine This article is about the benefits of taking steps in the field of walking and walking. The investigators evaluated a cohort of over 16,000 women, all over age 72 years, over 7-day periods between 2011 and 2015. They gave them an idea of how to measure things over a given week. & Nbsp; They then reviewed the data, to see if it correlated with all-cause mortality in the subsequent five to eight years.
The study found that there was a decrease in all-cause mortality in women who walked as few as 4,400 steps per day, not the coveted 10,000. & Nbsp; They also found that a woman walked over more than 7,500 steps per day, walking over that death rate.
Granted, there are several weak spots in this study. One potential flaw is the accuracy of the step counts. Another is that it's measuring one aspect of lifestyle (walking steps) over a relatively short time (one week). But the long-term follow-up (as long as eight years) gives some weight to this data.
The notion of steps is a new one. The Amish population, a close-knit community living primarily in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and parts of Ontario, Canada, has been the subject of health studies from the vantage point of diet, genetics, lifestyle and exercise for decades. A 2004 study tracked steps of the Amish, and found that Amish men walked, on average, 18,000 steps per day, and Amish women were clocking approximately 14,000 daily steps. And while the Amish are known to snack on kale chips or kombucha sipping, they tend to have extremely low rates of obesity and heart disease, despite a pretty hefty diet and dearth of pilates classes.
Japanese walking clubs in the 1960's and 1970's & nbsp; promoted use of pedometers, with the goal of 10,000 steps per day. This is an auspicious number in Japanese culture, but it is arbitrary, not an actual data-driven marker for healthy levels of activity for adults or children. More recent data shows that children should walk closer to 13,000 steps & nbsp; each day for ideal activity levels to maintain health.
Wearable technology continues to be more The wristbands are stylish, with more bling, and there are even wearable technology rings, if bracelets are not your thing. & Nbsp; The data now extends miles beyond steps, to include heart rate, sleep patterns, inactivity alarms, and even electrocardiograms. & Nbsp; Over 100 million devices are sold worldwide, and it is a billion dollar business.
Alas, simply wearing a healthy lifestyle. In fact, wearing one for the sake of losing weight may have the opposite effect. & Nbsp; One 2016 study The study of the effects of weight loss on the weight of the weight of the weight of the weight of the weight loss, a two-year period. The group wearing health trackers lost half as much as those who did not wear a tracker. Those wearing fitness trackers were also found to be less fit, as measured by degree of daily physical activity.
Accuracy of any tracker data has been questionable, with some overestimating step count by up to fifteen percent. But for those who engage in minimal physical activity, the trackers may, indeed, be motivational. And according to this study, walking much less than the after-hours of the day, especially in one's eighth decade, may be plenty to keep the internal tracker we call the heart ticking into the ninth decade and beyond.
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A study published in this week's issue of JAMA Internal Medicine This article is about the benefits of taking steps in the field of walking and walking. The investigators evaluated a cohort of over 16,000 women, all over age 72 years, over 7-day periods between 2011 and 2015. They then reviewed the data, to see if it correlated with all-cause mortality in the subsequent five to eight years.
The study found that there were fewer than 4,400 steps per day, not the coveted 10,000. They also found that a woman walked over more than 7,500 steps per day, walking over that death rate.
Granted, there are several weak spots in this study. One potential flaw is the accuracy of the step counts. Another is that it's measuring one aspect of lifestyle (walking steps) over a relatively short time (one week). But the long-term follow-up (as long as eight years) gives some weight to this data.
The notion of steps is a new one. The Amish population, a close-knit community living primarily in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and parts of Ontario, Canada, has been the subject of health research, lifestyle, and lifestyle for decades. A 2004 study tracked steps of the Amish, and found that Amish men walked, on average, 18,000 steps per day, and Amish women were clocking approximately 14,000 daily steps. And while the Amish are known to snack on kale chips or kombucha sipping, they tend to have extremely low rates of obesity and heart disease, despite a pretty hefty diet and dearth of pilates classes.
Japanese walking clubs in the 1960s and 1970s promoted by pedometers, with the goal of 10,000 steps per day. This is an auspicious number in Japanese culture, but it is arbitrary, not an actual data-driven marker for healthy levels of activity for adults or children. More recent data shows that they should walk closer to 13,000 steps each day.
Wearable technology continues to be more The wristbands are stylish, and there are even wearable technology rings, if bracelets are not your thing. The data now extends miles beyond steps, to include heart rate, sleep patterns, inactivity alarms, and even electrocardiograms. Over 100 million devices are sold worldwide, and it is a billion dollar business.
Alas, simply wearing a healthy lifestyle. In fact, wearing one for the sake of losing weight may have the opposite effect. One 2016 study looking at the effects of weight loss over the past two years. The group wearing health trackers lost half as much as those who did not wear a tracker. Those wearing fitness trackers were also found to be less fit, as measured by degree of daily physical activity.
Accuracy of any tracker has been questionable, with some overestimating step count by up to fifteen percent. But for those who engage in minimal physical activity, the trackers may, indeed, be motivational. And according to this study, walking much less than the after-hours of the day, especially in one's eighth decade, may be plenty to keep the internal tracker we call the heart ticking into the ninth decade and beyond.