Do You Want To Live Forever? (I Don't)

[wolf63]

I have just read this headline in Google News: "Walking for just 15 minutes a day can reduce risk of death by a quarter, say researchers "

Does that mean if you walk a long distance each day you will live for ever?

http://www.mirror.co.uk/science/walking-just-15-minutes-day-8187191

[Pete65]

No.

[rsvp]

No because if you apply that logic then the oft quoted advice by our resident medic of 'take two ibruprofen and call me in the morning' could be interpreted as 'take the packet and you'll be okay in a nano second'.
However as I suspect you've posted this tongue in cheek I did have a chuckle at the thought of everyone getting immortality by walking non stop for a week or so.

[Old_Geezer]

Walk an hour each day and that should be enough.
Trouble is, what about when your legs give out ?

[Ken4155]

What it means is that if you walk 5 miles per day for 10 days, you'll be 50 miles away from where you started:-) And, of course, you will wear your hips out much earlier than had you not done all that walking.

[jourdain2]

Yes, if I can leave the arthritis and now asthma behind! Unfortunately I can't. I'd want to live forever aged 50!

[Ken4155]

But just think how long this Government would have you working if you could live forever!

[Samuraisan]

For sure I don't. I dread to think how the world is going to be in 50 years time. I fear for my great grand children to be.

[Peter Pedant]

yes of course !
and if you vote for Brexit you will get to liv in Buckingham Palace

[DTCwordfan]

I'm strimming with a blade for an hour twenty a day...I should be dead within 90 days given the exercise this entails. Night all.

[grasscarp]

Also dont forget before you criticize someone, you should try walking a mile in their shoes. That way you will end up a mile away from them and you will have their shoes.

[wolf63]

I bought a fitness monitor to check how much walking I was doing. I have managed to walk about 5,000 steps a day. Some of those days I have not left the flat. The monitor is around my wrist and it is monitoring my arm movement. Not a lot of use.

The details of my sleep patterns and cycles show just how badly I am sleeping. :-(