How old are your joints?

[Primrose]

Here's a little fun test for all you active gardeners to do to find out whether you're overweight and whether your joints are younger than you are in the way they perform. Go to the web link below and fill in the questions.

http://www.jointagecalculator.co.uk/

Well, at least I'm not overweight, although you can probably hear my joints cracking from here.

[Nature's Babe]

Hi Primrose. Well I am a bit overweight, but my joints are still quite young, about half my chronological age ! I think caring for my elderly Mum and my diet helps, I can still do the sitting on the floor knee / hip test.

[Monika]

I have just done the test, Primrose, and am pleased to say that my joint age is 16 years younger than my biological age! Must be all the gardening! Actually, I swim at least twice a week, go to aerobics and pilates every week and, as a non-driver, must walk several miles every week, too. In addition, we are great fish eaters - my OH and I share a tin of fish (mackerel, pilchards, sild, sardines or salmon) every morning for breakfast. So we are doing our best to keep moving.

[Primrose]

I think I'll do the questionnaire again tomorrow BEFORE I've taken the lie detector test.

[Geoff]

Knackered like I thought I was.

[lizzie]

Well, i'm buggered Never mind, I can still enjoy myself poking passers by with my stick

[Primrose]

Gosh. You're a mighty fit lot out there. Just noticed this thread has been viewed 60 times and only three of us have confessed to being fit for the knackers yard.

Perhaps everybody is worried the Health & Safety jerks might start sticking "Best Before" labels on humans who don't come up to specification and dump all "the creakies" in the green recycling bins.

[PLUMPUDDING]

Another one for the knacker's yard I'm afraid - my joints are 25 years older than they should be!!!! Had a hard paper round They're only trying to make you buy their supplements anyway. The only thing I've given up is squash, so I can't be too bad.

[madasafish]

18 years younger.

Regular running, yoga, and exercises , cod liver oil supplements and a mixed diet make me .. well feel younger..

[lizzie]

I'm well knackered. Mine came back as age 89!!!!!!!! over twice my actual age.

[Parsons Jack]

I'm well knackered. Mine came back as age 89!!!!!!!! over twice my actual age.

Only twice Lizzie

Mine came back at 45. Not bad considering I'm 61

[Monika]

Actually, Plumpudding, I think their supplements do work. We take their cod liver oil pill with glucosamine every morning and my OH considers his joints have improved since he started taking them about 2 years ago. As we are both well into our 70s, we could have jolly side worse joints than we do.

[Chantal]

Rachel and I have just done this, I've come back at 95!

What's more, I'm chock full of Glucosamine, Omega Three etc

Anyone got a spare set of castors?

[Primrose]

Looking round at all of us I can only recommend shares in Seven Seas Cod Liver Oil as being a "buy"

And that we all go up to Monika's where she'll put us through a Keep Fit course with her gardening, walking, swimming and aerobics. Just the thought of all that exercise is making me dizzy. Must go and lie down for a bit.

[PLUMPUDDING]

My poor score is probably mainly due to arthritis settling in to old sports injuries. I've done yoga for years among other spports and have taken Glucosamine with chondroitin and cod liver oil for ages too. I'm in a walking group and do at least a 5 mile walk every week and have half an acre of garden, half of which is terraced, so go up and down six flights of steps numerous times a day so I think I get enough load bearing exercise.

Goodness knows what sort of state I'd be in if I sat in a chair all day.

My great grandfather ended up in a wheelchair with arthritis and various other relatives on my mother's side had similar problems, so it is probably hereditary.

I've mentioned before that I find that celery helps reduce the crepitus (crunchy sounds) in my joints. I had some a few times last week and my right knee has stopped crunching altogether at the moment.

Funny isn't it, I was feeling quite fit and youthful until I scored 85!