Sunday, December 30, 2012

Simple sitting test may determine your mortality | Redux

Simple sitting test may determine your mortality

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Tapumes do Araujo Vianna by apr77
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The test screens for musculo-skeletel fitness and is an assessment of your ability to sit and then rise – unaided – from the floor. The study was performed in Brazil by Dr. Claudio Gil Araujo and his team at the Clinimex-Exercise Medicine Clinic in Rio de Janeiro. Araujo and his colleagues looked at more than 2,000 middle-aged men and women in 2002. He followed up with them approximately six years later, or until their date of death. Before the test, Araujo gave the subjects simple instructions. “Without worrying about the speed of movement, try to sit and then to rise from the floor, using the minimum support that you believe is needed,” Araujo said.

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Dr. Claudio Gil Araujo

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0“Without worrying about the speed of movement, try to sit and then to rise from the floor, using the minimum support that you believe is needed,” Araujo said. ...
0.067546"It is well known that aerobic fitness is strongly related to survival, but our study also shows that maintaining high levels of body flexibility, muscle strength, power-to-body weight ratio and co-ordination are not only good for performing daily activities, but have a favorable influence on life expectancy,” Araujo explained ...
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