{"id":3699,"date":"2014-12-04T20:57:12","date_gmt":"2014-12-05T02:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abundantlife.hwacollege.org\/?p=3699"},"modified":"2014-12-04T20:57:46","modified_gmt":"2014-12-05T02:57:46","slug":"simple-fitness-test-that-predicts-longevity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abundantlife.hwacollege.org\/?p=3699","title":{"rendered":"Simple fitness test that predicts longevity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The exercise that predicts your death: Struggling with &#8220;sitting-rising test&#8221; means you&#8217;re 5 times more likely to die early.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Physicians\u00a0in Brazil developed the test to measure flexibility quickly<\/li>\n<li>No\u00a0equipment\u00a0is needed to sit and stand without any support<\/li>\n<li>People can score a maximum of 10 points, with 1 point deducted for putting a hand or leg for stability, and half a point docked for wobbling<\/li>\n<li>Patients who scored fewer than eight points, were twice as likely to die within the next six years, compared with people with more perfect scores<\/li>\n<li>Study claims that musculoskeletal fitness, as assessed by the simple test, can be used to predict death in 51\u201380-year-olds<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read the full article, along with a video demonstration, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-2858804\/Can-exercise-test-predict-DEATH-People-struggle-sitting-rising-test-five-times-likely-die.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div id=\"iLikeThis-3699\" class=\"iLikeThis\"><span class=\"counter\">0 <a onclick=\"likeThis(3699);\">I did this!<\/a><\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The exercise that predicts your death: Struggling with &#8220;sitting-rising test&#8221; means you&#8217;re 5 times more likely to die early. Physicians\u00a0in Brazil developed the test to measure flexibility quickly No\u00a0equipment\u00a0is needed to sit and stand without any support People can score a maximum of 10 points, with 1 point deducted for putting a hand or leg [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[243],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abundantlife.hwacollege.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abundantlife.hwacollege.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abundantlife.hwacollege.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abundantlife.hwacollege.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abundantlife.hwacollege.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3699"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/abundantlife.hwacollege.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3701,"href":"https:\/\/abundantlife.hwacollege.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3699\/revisions\/3701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abundantlife.hwacollege.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abundantlife.hwacollege.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abundantlife.hwacollege.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}