HOW’S YOUR HEALTH? THERE WILL BE MATH INVOLVED

How’s you health? Researchers at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University have come up with a new way to determine how well your heart is working: Divide your average daily heart rate by your daily average number of steps. The resulting ratio – the daily heart rate per step – shows how efficiently the heart is working. The study found that people whose hearts work less efficiently are more prone to various diseases, like diabetes, hypertension, heart failure, stroke and worse. Here’s how it works:
– If you take 10,000 steps a day, and have an average resting heart rate of 80, your ratio is 0.008.
– If you take 10,000 steps a day and have an average heart rate of 120, your ratio is 0.012. The higher the ratio, the worse off you are.
* If your average heart rate is 120, you need to stop drinking 40 cups of coffee a day.
* It sounds like somebody wants to sell me yet another $200 watch with a calculator.
* My heart rate divided by my daily number of steps. What’s 12 divided by 8?
* About 15 people are going to do this exactly once and then never do it again. What did this study cost again?