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Simple sitting test may determine your mortality (bad title...video at source)
FoxNews.com ^
| 12/13/2012
Posted on 12/13/2012 4:01:00 PM PST by RoosterRedux
A simple sitting and standing test can determine your mortality, according to a study published in the European Journal of Cardiovascular Prevention.
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.
RELATED: Dr. Manny: I failed the sitting test, so does that mean Im going to die?
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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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: mortality; mortalitytest; sittingtest
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As regards the title...the sitting test may speak to or in some way indicate your mortality (life span), but it does not determine it.
To: RoosterRedux
Oh, my goodness, I’m not going to live to the end of this sent...
To: Gen.Blather
I am a gonner! Can I call my dog for help?
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posted on
12/13/2012 4:12:00 PM PST
by
Red_Devil 232
(VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
To: Gen.Blather
LOL.
My dad lived to 94 (passed away last July 19th)...and it would take him 30 minutes and an infinite number of elbows and hands to get up off the floor (to which he would fall from time to time).
I think this test is bogus in most ways...but still offers us seniors something to work toward.;-)
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posted on
12/13/2012 4:12:27 PM PST
by
RoosterRedux
(He will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats)
To: Red_Devil 232
I am a gonner! Can I call my dog for help?
I highly recommend calling the dog over the cat. The cat said, You aint gonna need those eyes anymore, right? Cause they look delicious.
To: Gen.Blather
That is why I don’t have a cat!
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posted on
12/13/2012 4:18:44 PM PST
by
Red_Devil 232
(VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
To: RoosterRedux
How ridiculous. I couldn’t do the cross legged stand up thing when I was a skinny little kid much less now. I might be dead this time next week but it won’t be in any way related to this test.
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posted on
12/13/2012 4:20:19 PM PST
by
bgill
(We've passed the point of no return. Welcome to Al Amerika.)
To: RoosterRedux
I wonder how many high school students can sit cross legged and stand up without assistance?
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posted on
12/13/2012 4:22:15 PM PST
by
fso301
To: RoosterRedux
I just took the test and I’m looking for someone to help me up!
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posted on
12/13/2012 4:22:19 PM PST
by
golf lover
(going)
To: RoosterRedux
"...got until Saturday noon, of course these people have no idea what snots with skateboards do when they hit bricks, sometimes I get sick laughing"
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posted on
12/13/2012 4:24:27 PM PST
by
Doogle
(USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
To: fso301
Today's students? I don't know. I could until well past the age of 30.
Now? No.
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posted on
12/13/2012 4:24:50 PM PST
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: Doogle
LOL! Cats are amazing. :)
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posted on
12/13/2012 4:25:52 PM PST
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: Doogle
ROFLOL!!! You owe me a keyboard!
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posted on
12/13/2012 4:27:17 PM PST
by
MWestMom
("And those that cried appease, appease were hung by those they tried to please" - Horace Mann)
To: RoosterRedux
My mom went to assisted living when she could no longer get off the floor by herself. That turned out to be 7 months prior to her death. Multiple rounds of congestive heart failure took her out over the April to November time frame. The final blow was diagnosis of cancer in both lobes of her lungs a week before she passed.
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posted on
12/13/2012 4:27:28 PM PST
by
Myrddin
To: RoosterRedux
Unfortunately, physical fitness is of little use against cancer.
I’m 59, healthy right now, work out in the gym for an hour every day, and could still very easily die in a few years.
To: Myrddin
Sorry about your Mom.
There is no antidote for missing a loved one.
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posted on
12/13/2012 4:31:57 PM PST
by
RoosterRedux
(He will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats)
To: proxy_user
Purely anecdotal of course, but I believe exercise is a great way to fight cancer.
It lifts your spirit, it gives you energy and hope (geez...not hopium again)...it tells your body and mind--right down to the cellular level--that you are willing to fight for your life.
At least if you exercise, you will die fighting. And that can't be a bad thing.
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posted on
12/13/2012 4:36:46 PM PST
by
RoosterRedux
(He will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats)
To: RoosterRedux
Ok, so because I got a line drive to my knee, and can barely get off the floor without gyrations, because the knee wont bend - apparently I am dead already according to the test.
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posted on
12/13/2012 4:37:41 PM PST
by
svcw
(Why is one cell on another planet considered life, and in the womb it is not.)
To: svcw
You're not dead...you're just defying destiny.;-)
Keep up the good work!
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posted on
12/13/2012 4:40:07 PM PST
by
RoosterRedux
(He will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats)
To: Doogle
That may just be your best, evah. :-)
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posted on
12/13/2012 4:59:03 PM PST
by
Nervous Tick
(Without GOD, men get what they deserve.)
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