The grip secret: it could be the key to a long and healthy life – here’s how to improve yours
The grip secret: it could be the key to a long and healthy life – here’s how to improve yours
A weak grip goes hand in hand with higher risk of heart attack and stroke, and is linked to everything from diabetes and obesity to muscle loss. Here’s what to do about it
Once again we hit the wondrous conflation of correlation and causation.
Grip strength is not something that you can train to have an outsized impact on your health. It is a good marker because it is not something people often train, it is something that an active life will naturally train, and it tends to be a part of most upper body exercises.
It would be like saying people who carry lots of cash live longer, so you should carry lots of cash. People who are richer have less worry about carrying cash and it is a good indicator they are not running all the way out of money each week. Taking money with you won't make you rich and it won't change whether you can afford good healthcare, food, housing, or a lower stress life. Impacting how much cash you carry won't make you live longer, but measuring it across the population is a simple proxy for wealth and therefore health.
Come on The Guardian. Get a science reporter who cab actually do their job, someone who has at least a bachelor of science and ideally took some critical thinking units.