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You can walk as fast as you can and live as long as you can

Walking is a way to keep healthy. Recently, a new study shows that a person who walks fast may live longer, or even 15 years longer than a person who walks slowly. So it's also an effective way to keep yourself healthy when you have nothing to do.

According to the report, researchers led by Tom & middot; Yates, a professor at the University of Leicester in the UK, analyzed the data of 474919 people with an average age of 52 years from 2006 to 2016. The results showed that the life expectancy of women walking fast was 86.7-87.8 years, and that of men walking fast was 85.2-86.8 years.

The life expectancy of women who walk slowly is 72.4 years, while that of men is 64.8 years. It is reported that the study was published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings recently.

Research shows that even if fast walkers are seriously overweight, life expectancy is still higher than that of slow walkers. The researchers believe that this is because faster walking means more exercise, which can protect walkers from high blood pressure, obesity and inactivity to a certain extent.

However, the researchers also said that the study only proved the correlation between walking fast and life expectancy, but did not show a causal relationship between the two. However, this study can help doctors roughly judge the overall health of patients by walking speed.

According to the report, this is not the first study to use walking speed as a basis for improving people's health. In 2011, the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) published a study by Stephanie studenski, a professor of geriatrics at the University of Pittsburgh. She came to the same conclusion that walking speed is a reliable predictor of life expectancy.

In 2013, U.S. researchers found that walking speed was associated with lower heart disease risk and longer life expectancy. In 2017, University of Leicester Professor Tom & middot; Yates found that walking speed may affect the risk of death from heart disease by analyzing the data of biological bank of England.