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> 40 min per day more walking [...] psychosocial (quality of life and pain) outcomes were typically small and often non-significant Interesting if 40 more minu
by barrkel 3y ago
> 40 min per day more walking [...] psychosocial (quality of life and pain) outcomes were typically small and often non-significant
Interesting if 40 more minutes a day walking didn't have much if any effect on happiness.
- boringuser2 3y agoThe problem is the pace. Walking briskly and casually walking are very different activities.
- coldtea 3y agoAs if walking briskly would make people with shitty lives and situational depression (like, tons, judging from statistics and related depression drug usage) happy? Exercize is good for endorphins and depression, but let's not oversell it on inducing hapiness.
- moritzwarhier 3y agoWalking at the sides of busy roads is very different from walking around a calm neighbourhood, or even a park, a forest or any other environment which is not high-density urban or industrialized, polluted and ugly roads. The good options are inaccessible to a large part of the world's population during work week. Therefore this study misses crucial factors and is an excersise (pun unintended) in absurdity. Still, I also see some positive effects from Apple Fitness gamification even without the watch, and I'm privileged enough to be able to reach a park in 15 minutes.
- foxes 3y agoWow it’s almost like turning cities into a car filled hellscape was a bad idea.
- Gigachad 3y agoWalking in American cities is awful, but if you live in a good country that limits vehicle access its super relaxing to walk around the city and see all the cool stuff going on. No toxic fumes. No engine noise. No risk of sudden death. Just the low background noise of footsteps, chatter, people laughing, etc.
- moritzwarhier 3y agoSounds like paradise, I know :) And I cherish the scarce opportunities to experience it. It's always a revelation to experience quietness for the first time in a couple of weeks...
- nightski 3y agoI know it's fun to hate on America but that's bs. We walk several miles in our city every day and it's great. We'll walk in state parks or near our cabin on the weekends but there's nothing wrong at all with walking in an American city.
- coldtea 3y agoDepends if you're some rural city somewhere or some exception, or the average built for cars US mega-city.
- noman-land 3y agoBased on my extremely limited understanding, you need at least 90 minutes a day to see positive results.
- barrkel 3y agoWell presumably if there's a threshold effect, +40 minutes should have shown an increase because it would have pushed people who were already walking over the threshold.
- quitit 3y agoOther studies show that outdoor walking relieves stress(1) and provides an opportunity to think about problems differently (or perhaps "creatively")(2), in those 40 minutes a day would be more than sufficient to experience advantages. However how those 40 minutes take place would affect the result. Merely counting 40 minutes of doing chores is not the same as an extra 40 minutes added deliberately to a person's day. Similarly 40 minutes on a treadmill is unlikely to feel as relaxing as a walk through nature. Drawing detailed conclusions from activity studies is problematic, but the broad conclusions are consistent: the body likes movement and lots of it. https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/stress-management/in-depth/exercise-and-stress/art-20044469 https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/stress-manageme... https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/walking-helps-us-think https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/walking-...