No time to exercise? Too lazy to prepare their own healthy food? Unhealthy lifestyle like this sometimes makes us afraid of health conditions.
The question of whether we will live longer too often haunting. Well, now there is a simple test to find out.
A doctor in Brazil found a simple test to predict how long a person's age. The test is called Sitting Rising Test (SRT), aka sit stand this test has been shown to predict a person's risk of dying in the next five years.
Dr.Claudio Gil Araujo, PhD, sports and sports medicine specialist, was the one who found the test that is easy, fast, and this can be done anywhere.
How to do this simple test SRT. Simply provide a cushion on the floor at the same time if we fall safety when going to stand.
The trick begins with sitting cross-legged on the mat. Then, we have to stand up without thinking about how quickly it can be done. The observed just how much help is needed to be able to stand.
If we can change the position of the cross-legged position to a standing position without assistance, then the point is 5. Go back to the initial position of the point 5.
but if we use the help, be it a hand, finger, or knee, to sustain when we sit or stand, so any kind of help that will reduce each 5 points. Pushing the body while standing also reduce points.
For any points you get, the possible reduction in the risk of death by 21 percent. A score of 3 or less, the risk of death will be greater.
According to Araujo, he got the idea to create a test SRT after observing patients aged older or more sedentary lifestyle, but can perform aerobic tests.
"Most of them are also capable of cycling or running on a treadmill. But if they are asked to tie his shoelaces, their difficulties. This shows that not only aerobic fitness is important. We must also have another thing, namely strength, flexibility, and balance," he said .
Observation of 2,000 middle-aged men, have proved that belief. In observation for six years, participants were able to stand up from a sitting position without the help of hands or other objects, tend to live longer than others.
During the study, 159 participants eventually died with an average mortality rate of 7.9 percent.
Participants who need a lot of help to stand to have a higher mortality rate than those who can do it without help.
So Happy Trying
Friday, February 27, 2015
