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- slicedoranges, on 10/12/2007, -6/+76"Your really dumb."
Oh, the iron knee. - sneed, on 10/12/2007, -5/+64"kyle1 - its you're.. not your.. if you're going to insult someone's intelligence, perhaps you should improve your own grammer first."
Umm... you mean grammar? - awilke, on 10/12/2007, -6/+54"I live my life a quarter mile at a time" ...sorry
- thewise1, on 10/12/2007, -7/+49"I live my life a quarter pounder at a time. For those 500 calories or more, I'm free"
- chrisbtig, on 10/12/2007, -3/+32Note that this study was done on elderly people... the sensational headline only applies to people overy 70.
- RandomChu, on 10/12/2007, -3/+31Good luck running 400m in 13 seconds. That's roughly 30% of the current world record. :)
- omirix, on 10/12/2007, -4/+30Well, if you're going to insult his grammar, learn how to spell it.
- Gatowag, on 10/12/2007, -7/+29That's what she said...
- FullMetalMonkey, on 10/12/2007, -3/+23The title is misleading. I thought we were going to be talking about forcing fat people to walk a quater-mile or them face execution!
- rocjoe71, on 10/12/2007, -3/+23Other signs you may already be dead:
1) Lack of appetite
2) Inability to move ALL limbs, not just legs
3) You seem to have gone to bed, but you're dressed in your best clothes instead of comfy P.J.'s
4) Insomnia, probably brought on by bright white light always hovering in front of you
...If you have one or more of these symptoms, you may already be dead. Speak to your doctor about it... Assuming you can still talk. - HoboMaster, on 10/12/2007, -1/+19Yeah, but if you're under 70 and you can't walk a quarter-mile, you're really in trouble.
- Flackster, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16If you can't walk a quarter mile, you might already be dead.
- NINJ4, on 10/12/2007, -3/+15*hangs head in disappointment*
- xpack10, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12too bad bird flu will get us all before our six years is up
- ConceptJunkie, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10rocjoe71: On the plus side, if you're dead, you probably won't receive so many AOL CD's.
- Destinatus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Cryptecks: No, just show offs.
- Chompy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9I could do it, if there was a bag of cheetos at the end of the 1/4 mile.
- tjl2015, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Unfortunately, it won't stop you from getting sued by the RIAA
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8"This Fall on Fox..."
- Zipko, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Does it count if my wheelchair gets me a quarter mile? I can do that, as long as its downhill.
These studies are bad news for people without legs. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Nah, you're probably going to die sooner from overexcertion.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7duh your on a track team. oh course it seems easy to you.
i doubt i could run it in sub 6min and i'm far from unfit, it'd be like me claiming it's fair to make you attempt to bench 150% of your body weight. if you've trained for something it's going to give you an advantage, this research was aimed at a wider sample of the population then track stars. - Sube6491, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Peh, normal people (young, no offense to the geezers) can walk upwards of 15 miles in one day.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+10wait- isn't the 'rule' that every spelling correction MUST have a spelling errar (sp)?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7"I take every day one beer at a time; every beer one sip at a time." -Denis Leary
- ctishman, on 10/12/2007, -6/+11God, it's like an unending torrent of pwnage.
- blahblah, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6I'm a doctor, and my professional opinion is that you can't do that.
- heinousjay, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5And candidates for various joint surgeries as you get older. I'll point and laugh, politely.
- cartwheels, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5"they can still do cartwheels"
Eiw, people upwards of 60 can still do me. - brandizzle, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6It isn't too hard if you don't notice it. I'm sure alot of grandparents could probably walk their grandkids around a park and walk over a quarter mile without realising it, but if they tried to measure it and walk then they couldn't do it.
- Ascendant, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Sure- why excercize when your virtual avatar can do it for you?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6*****. I was built to sit in this chair and endure a walk to and from the kitchen for snackie cakes and bacon.
- SpaceCow!, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4That's the most depressing thing Ive heard all day.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Wait, so what they are saying is people who are more physically fit live longer. I never knew that.
- bigd063, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4My Great Grandma is 101 and she can tear a quarter mile up. I don't believe for one second she'll make it to 107 though.
- 4answer2, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5“There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.”
- KamikazeeDriver, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3@awilke
hahahhahahahah you've inpsired me to watch that movie again to look for more stupid quotes that can be used in a sarcastic manner. +1 for you on that quote. - JohnboiWaltune, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Roger Bannister broke the 4 minute mile in 1954
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Bannister - MrUnderbridge, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Yeah. Who can pull off an 80 second quarter-mile after a 12-pack?
Just be ready to pass out after you do it....uh...I hear. - acusticthoughts, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Actually...the four minute mile record stood for a few thousand years until bob beamon...or whatever his name was...broke it in the 40s or 50...or whenever the ***** he broke it :-)
- JohnboiWaltune, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@crimsonalucard
"Physiologically we're built for long distance travel."
Since two-legged running is more energy efficient than 4-legged, humans are some of the best long distance runners, we're built for what is known as cursorial hunting. That means chasing an animal until it can't run anymore due to exhaustion, and then finishing it off with hand-to-hand weapons. It's likely that before the invention of the thrown spear, the bow, and traps, humans worked in teams to chase down animals. One hunter would chase the animal in the direction of the next hunter, etc, etc, until the animal could not run anymore, and the last guy would bash its head in with a rock or a stone ax.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cursorial_hunting - nlatimer, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Uphill, both ways, in the snow. Then you jump off the hill, without a parachute to get home.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I'm not looking forward to the day I enter the age group in which walking a mere 400 m becomes an accomplishment. Although, by then I'll probably have stopped reading digg, which will be a good thing.
- WayneMan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I think this explains why the chicken crossed the road...
...to see if it would live for six more years. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This is what i call a simplified model.
Well it is true if you exclude all the other thousand's of variables that affect health. - daggerhart, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2what if i do an obscene amount of cocaine, and then walk a quarter mile?
i should get a decent score that way. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Sub one minute times are good, but not extraordinary. Running a quarter mile in a minute is NOT equivalent to running a mile in 4 minutes, because of the fatigue factor. Try sprinting a mile at FULL SPEED!
Also, I am in good shape, but my mile time is probably around 7 or 8 minutes. Maybe a better indicator is the PACER Test; I don't knwo if you've heard of it... - kitejumping, on 10/12/2007, -3/+451.8s was my best 400m last year, I guess digg isn't full of runners or track people...
- RobotCitizen, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2"My grandma started walking a mile every day. It's been 2 months now and we don't where the hell she is." badumpum!
Seriously, it's not exactly new info that the level of functional capacity you have in old age is a major predictor of morbidity and mortality. Even if you're under 70, if you can't move your ass a 1/4 mile, chances are you aren't gonna see 70. Obesity, heart disease, heck even risk of pneumonia in elderly is higher if you're sedentary. Moving air through your lungs helps clear the secretions that bacteria like to multiply in. People who don't move are more likely to get sick. It's really that simple. -
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