[HN Gopher] Climbing 50 steps a day can cut your risk of heart d... ___________________________________________________________________ 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) (HTM) web link (news.tulane.edu) (TXT) w3m dump (news.tulane.edu) | 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. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-11-26 23:00 UTC)