Slow walking at 45 'a sign of faster ageing'

[jack_spratt]

How fast people walk in their 40s is a sign of how much their brains, as well as their bodies, are ageing, scientists have suggested.
Using a simple test of gait speed, researchers were able to measure the ageing process.
Not only were slower walkers' bodies ageing more quickly - their faces looked older and they had smaller brains.

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[jack_spratt]

I'll be checking this theory out tomorrow.

 

[Gordon_R]

I read the article, and it makes a certain amount of sense.

What is not clear is how they determine walking speed? Sometimes I walk slow, other times fast.

 

[jack_spratt]

I read the article, and it makes a certain amount of sense.

What is not clear is how they determine walking speed? Sometimes I walk slow, other times fast.

I assume it's their normal walking speed.

 

[Smugs]

Walking from my car to work entrance - I'm aging..
Walking from my car to pub entrance - I'm getting younger..

 

[friedpiggy]

I am a tall bugger. Used to walk flipping fast but have over the years forced myself to walk slower so I don't end up leaving shorter people (like my wife) in the dust.

 

[John_Phoenix]

This explains all the workers at checkers / pnp perfectly. It's not their fault, it's just "age"

 

[John_Phoenix]

I am a tall bugger. Used to walk flipping fast but have over the years forced myself to walk slower so I don't end up leaving shorter people (like my wife) in the dust.

6ft6 myself, and yes, we walk fast and fall in slow motion. It's pretty hilarious.

 

[lumeer]

I follow two competing philosophies on walking: "a gentleman never hurries" and "it's bad manners to drag your feet".

 

[RonSwanson]

This explains all the workers at checkers / pnp perfectly. It's not their fault, it's just "age"

Certainly some of them walk / waddle at a snails' pace. It is not only retail shop workers, I have noticed it with many people, some are just too lazy / old to lift their feet, and shuffle along as if life is a huge unwanted chore. Even if they are in their early twenties.

 

[Gordon_R]

Decades ago I had to catch the train to get to school. Walking slow was never an option.

I assume that has helped my fitness, because I am otherwise very lazy.

 

[Düber]

I'm going to have to warn my teenage daughter...

 

[borro]

Fast walking at 45 'a sign of slower aging'

 

[Milano]

Slow walkers are the same people who stand still in shop entrance ways. Their brains stopped functioning at full capacity a long time ago. South Africans are insanely slow walkers/thinkers and would be routinely run over (walked over?) by other pedestrians in large international cities.

 

[John_Phoenix]

Slow walkers are the same people who stand still in shop entrance ways. Their brains stopped functioning at full capacity a long time ago. South Africans are insanely slow walkers/thinkers and would be routinely run over (walked over?) by other pedestrians in large international cities.

This, this boils my blood. Did they hit a segfault? What part of their humanOS crashed so hard that it took down Legs Controller and Mobility interface with it. And then when you walk by too close, all of a sudden you stole their lunch.

This happening in shopping malls, not so much of a problem. This happening while crossing the road vaguely close to an intersection, now that's a real tragedy.

You would literally get walked out of the way in Manhattan or London. I've seen it happen to tourists.

 

[Polymathic]

Slow walkers are the same people who stand still in shop entrance ways. Their brains stopped functioning at full capacity a long time ago. South Africans are insanely slow walkers/thinkers and would be routinely run over (walked over?) by other pedestrians in large international cities.

Lol, information overload for them.

This, this boils my blood. Did they hit a segfault? What part of their humanOS crashed so hard that it took down Legs Controller and Mobility interface with it. And then when you walk by too close, all of a sudden you stole their lunch.

This happening in shopping malls, not so much of a problem. This happening while crossing the road vaguely close to an intersection, now that's a real tragedy.

You would literally get walked out of the way in Manhattan or London. I've seen it happen to tourists.

I was sitting in my outside the local spar, recently I've noticed just walking all dazed walking behind cars who are reversing out while the car is till in motion. I mean the is less than a ruler length away from them and reversing and still move behind it.

 

[redspark]

Generally, I walk fast and at times have to slow myself, especially when strolling with the fam in the mall.

 

[jack_spratt]

This explains all the workers at checkers / pnp perfectly. It's not their fault, it's just "age"

They have to "haul ass" though.