“In this study, of 1,000 people in New Zealand – born in the 1970s and followed to the age of 45 – the walking speed test was used much earlier, on adults in mid-life.
The study participants also had physical tests, brain function tests and brain scans, and during their childhood they had had cognitive tests every couple of years.
“This study found that a slow walk is a problem sign decades before old age,” said Prof Terrie E Moffitt, lead author from King’s College London and Duke University in the US.
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).
In general, the slower walkers tended to show signs of “accelerated ageing” with their lungs, teeth and immune systems in worse shape than those who walked faster.”

I don’t know about this, I must be an outlier.
I’ve always been a slow walker, an ambler and now that I’ve got 72 summers under my belt I don’t walk any slower now than I used to.
So if you’re a slow walker don’t be too alarmed by the study.

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-50015982

Peak Warming Man said:

“In this study, of 1,000 people in New Zealand – born in the 1970s and followed to the age of 45 – the walking speed test was used much earlier, on adults in mid-life.
The study participants also had physical tests, brain function tests and brain scans, and during their childhood they had had cognitive tests every couple of years.
“This study found that a slow walk is a problem sign decades before old age,” said Prof Terrie E Moffitt, lead author from King’s College London and Duke University in the US.
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).
In general, the slower walkers tended to show signs of “accelerated ageing” with their lungs, teeth and immune systems in worse shape than those who walked faster.”

I don’t know about this, I must be an outlier.
I’ve always been a slow walker, an ambler and now that I’ve got 72 summers under my belt I don’t walk any slower now than I used to.
So if you’re a slow walker don’t be too alarmed by the study.

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-50015982

I will ponder that message slowly.

Peak Warming Man said:

“In this study, of 1,000 people in New Zealand – born in the 1970s and followed to the age of 45 – the walking speed test was used much earlier, on adults in mid-life.
The study participants also had physical tests, brain function tests and brain scans, and during their childhood they had had cognitive tests every couple of years.
“This study found that a slow walk is a problem sign decades before old age,” said Prof Terrie E Moffitt, lead author from King’s College London and Duke University in the US.
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).
In general, the slower walkers tended to show signs of “accelerated ageing” with their lungs, teeth and immune systems in worse shape than those who walked faster.”

I don’t know about this, I must be an outlier.
I’ve always been a slow walker, an ambler and now that I’ve got 72 summers under my belt I don’t walk any slower now than I used to.
So if you’re a slow walker don’t be too alarmed by the study.

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-50015982

I was always a quite a fast walker but that didn’t stop me dieing of a heart attack at age 53.

The pace has slowed a bit now that arthritis has bitten the knees.

hope they adjusted for height in the study, we had a corgy cross kelpie sheepdog, short legs on it, did everything a regular dog did, best sheep dog ever, read your mind, jeeeezz did that creature clock up some miles/steps, could jump too. Wore out eventually

caltex was his name

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