If you want to live long, is it the key to walking fast? Foreign media released a study that people who walk fast will be 15 years longer than those who walk slowly.
The Daily Mail Report, a researcher led by Tom Yates, a professor of physical activity at Leicester University in the UK, analyzed the data of 474,919 people with an average age of 52 from 2006 to 2016 by the British Biobank. It found that women who are walking as fast as they expect a life expectancy of 86.7 to 87.8 years old, and men who walk fast expect a life expectancy of 85.2 to 86.8 years old. The expected life of slow-walking women is 72.4 years old and males is 64.8 years old. The study was published last week in Mayo Clinic Proceedings.
Even if fast-walking people are serious and overweight, their expected life is still higher than those who walk slowly. The researchers believe this is because the faster you walk means more movement to protect them from hypertension, obesity and inactivity. However, researchers also said that the study only proved the correlation between walking fast and expected life, not the causal relationship. But this study can help doctors roughly judge the patient's overall health by walking speed.
This is not the first time that walking speed has been used as a powerful factor to improve our health. In 2011, the Journal of Medical Association (JAMA) published a study by Stephanie Studenski, a professor of elderly medicine at Pittsburgh University, who came up with the same conclusion as —— walking speed is a reliable predictor for expected life. In 2013, American researchers discovered that walking speed was related to reducing heart disease risks and prolonging expected life. In 2017, Tom Yates, a professor of physical activity at Laester University, also analyzed data from the British Biobank and found that walking speed seemed to affect the risk of dying from heart disease. Conclusion: Compared with brisk walkers, the slowest person is twice as likely to die from a heart-related disease than brisk walkers.