[HN Gopher] Climbing 50 steps a day can cut your risk of heart d...
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Climbing 50 steps a day can cut your risk of heart disease by 20%
Author : geox
Score : 28 points
Date : 2023-11-26 22:32 UTC (28 minutes ago)
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| MuffinFlavored wrote:
| What about walking 0 steps a day for 50 years and then trying to
| make up for lost time?
| tonmoy wrote:
| I guess it'll be better than not trying to make up for lost
| time
| smt88 wrote:
| In all seriousness, there's a lot of research showing huge
| benefits of starting to exercise later in life. It's almost as
| helpful as exercising the whole time (in terms of avoiding
| cardiac events).
| XorNot wrote:
| Yeah there's basically no such thing as "too late". We're
| adaptable creatures - that biological programming to try and
| conserve energy at all costs (basically why we need to force
| ourselves to exercise) also works the other way - the body is
| pretty happy to start making big changes when it believes
| it's under a moderate physical stress.
|
| The amount of improvement I've gotten from 20 minutes on a
| rowing machine 5 days a week - and let's be clear, that's
| basically all I do on the logic of "I can spare 1 YouTube
| video of time (and still watch the video)" is insane.
| FartyMcFarter wrote:
| Better than nothing as long as you don't push too hard too
| quickly.
| timeon wrote:
| You need to count in recovery time.
| traceroute66 wrote:
| Daily exercise will cut your risk of heart disease.
|
| Shock, horror.
|
| Can't believe this stuff really counts as university research.
|
| I mean what next, "university finds stopping at red light cuts
| risk of road accidents" ?
| smt88 wrote:
| 50 steps for a 20% lower risk is a surprising and important
| result. It's less time/effort than people expect for that
| amount of benefit.
|
| Lots of people assume they can't exercise enough for it to
| matter and then decide not to exercise at all. This result
| could help change their minds.
| allan_s wrote:
| I think it's for those who thinks that 10000 steps a day is too
| much a change in their lifestyle.
|
| 50 steps a day instead can simply be a "take the stairs rather
| than the elevator" change in your daily routine.
| wtallis wrote:
| There's value in quantifying the benefit even after the
| existence of the benefit is universally believed.
| ergocoder wrote:
| I live in a 3-story townhouse. Automatic heart disease reduction.
| hesdeadjim wrote:
| Ha, I had the same thought. Office is on the third floor so I'm
| up and down 40 steps a day a dozen times. I've wondered what
| effect that has on the stability of my weight over the span of
| years.
| doubled112 wrote:
| Another one of those 3 story townhouse dwellers here. It
| can't hurt that the fridge is never on the same floor as me
| either.
| RcouF1uZ4gsC wrote:
| Is this correlation or causation?
|
| > Researchers also found that those who stopped climbing stairs
| daily during the study showed a 32% higher risk of cardiovascular
| disease compared to those who never reported climbing stairs.
|
| Cardiovascular disease is one of the things that would stop
| people from climbing stairs.
| oldgradstudent wrote:
| Also, people with umbrellas cause rain to drop. The same team
| should investigate that
| kiba wrote:
| At this point, the evidence for physical activity improving
| health outcome is so strong and varied that I would assume
| "yes, of course".
| brazzy wrote:
| Actually makes me feel better about recently having bought a
| house where I have to constantly go up and down to get stuff
| (expensive city, so small footprint, 4 floors).
|
| Five flights of stairs? I'm pretty sure I average thirty at
| least.
| DrNosferatu wrote:
| What about going down steps?
| albert180 wrote:
| It's obviously much less demanding and has therefore less
| health benefits. If you can't climb 50 Stairs you should start
| exercising ASAP
| kiba wrote:
| It has less benefit, sure, but probably different benefits.
|
| Running downhill is a great way to get DOMS because of the
| increased eccentric contraction.
| ez667 wrote:
| Don't do that. It will cancel out the benefit of going up.
| readingnews wrote:
| I always wonder how does this compare to any other cardio? For
| example, I started to run a few years ago. Now my week is
| something like 5k, 6k, 9k, 12k, 9k, 9k, 3k runs. I usually do not
| take a day off, as when it starts raining or snowing, this will
| force me to take 2-3 days off randomly for months on end.
|
| Should I be climbing stairs instead? I never climb stairs near
| me, I would have to literally go out of my way to find some.
| (Full disclosure, I sit for work, except for when I was teaching,
| so I run to try to make up for it. I still do not feel very
| healthy as I run for say an hour, then sit for like eight, or
| ten.... "sitting is the new smoking" is not helping).
| Aurornis wrote:
| Most of these studies about near-trivial effort are basically
| showing that doing anything at all is better than doing nothing
| strenuous.
|
| 50 steps per day is basically nothing relative to your running
| schedule. However, it's a significant step up from a sedentary
| lifestyle as shown by this study.
|
| For someone like you, ignore these studies. It's more important
| to do what you enjoy because that's going to translate to more
| and longer engagement. The exact exercise doesn't really
| matter.
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