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"Walking test can ID heart-lung fitness, mortality risk" by Anne Harding at Health. If you're middle-aged or older, a 10-minute walking test can give you and your doctor a pretty clear picture of whether you are at higher risk of dying during the next few years compared with other people your age, according to a large new analysis of data showing that cardiorespiratory fitness is intimately linked with the risk of dying of just about any cause. However, you probably won't get this exercise test unless you ask for it. The exercise stress test --or, in medical parlance, the graded exercise...


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Eugenie Jones | Fitness Guru And The Age-Old Questions Aging is a part of life but getting old is a matter of mind-over-matter, if you're working to live a fit life, then it don't matter. You've all seen me write this a hundred times, walking is the exercise is the rest of us and for the rest of life. If you commit to slowly working yourself back into shape, good health and find a form of exercise that you love, a life time will be easy because it becomes a part of who you are, what you do and keeping fit. Eugenie Jones writes for the Kitsap Sun that, "We've come accustomed to thinking "older...


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