Benefits of Walking for Health

Walking regularly, gives some benefits for our body. Most of us are quite hard to get up early and walk at least 30 minutes every day. Health benefits for more pronounced if the walk is done quickly and in haste. Studies in recent years reinforces that waddledrather than a leisurely stroll does give many benefits to our health. There are some benefits to be gained from the activity of walking.

Prevent Heart Attacks
Walking can reduce the risk of heart attack. The heart muscle needs more blood flowprofusely (from the coronary arteries that feed it) to fit and function normally without stopping the blood pumping. Walking hurriedly accelerate coronary blood flow to theheart. Thus the adequacy of oxygen the heart muscle and heart muscle are met can stay awake for quite a beat. Not only that, Flexibility of the arteries of the body of trained and will be helped by mengejangnya the muscles around the walls of blood vessels while conducting foot rushed it. The end result, blood pressure tends to belower, intercellular pelengketan blood clots that can result in blood clots cloggedvessels will also be reduced.

Besides, the good cholesterol (HDL), which works as a sponge absorbing the bad cholesterol (LDL) will increase by walking hurriedly. There are not many ways out of drugs that can increase HDL levels in addition to moving the body. Walking hurriedly recorded can reduce the risk of heart attack to just half.

Preventing Stroke
Despite the benefits of walking hurriedly towards stroke not as real influence on coronary heart disease, some studies have shown encouraging results. Just look at thenature of evidence that our ancestors were doing more walking activities every day,cases of stroke ancient times not as much now. One study of 70 thousand nurses(Harvard School of Public Health) are in the works recorded walking activities as much as 20 hours a week, decreased their risk of stroke two-thirds.

Stable weight
It turned out to familiarize walking routine, metabolic rates increased. In addition to a number of wasted calories by walking activity, the excess calories that there may beburned by increasing your metabolism so that weight gain did not occur.

Prevent Diabetes
Familiarize walk drove about 6 miles per hour, travel time approximately 50 minutes, it can delay or prevent the development of Type 2 diabetes, especially in those overweight. It is based study from the National Institute of Diabetes and Gigesive &Kidney Diseases.

As we know that cases of diabetes that can be resolved without the need to take medication, can be done by choosing a regular exercise routine. During the bloodsugar can be controlled simply by moving the body, the drug is not required. That means that walking hurriedly as useful as antidiabetic drugs.

Prevent osteoporosis
Exercise and walk fast, not only the muscles of the body are strengthened, but thebones as well. For calcium metabolism, moving the body is also required, in addition to need exposure to morning sunlight. Not enough extra calcium and vitamin D alone toprevent or slow the process of osteoporosis. The body also requires body movementand takes less than 15 minutes of exposure to the sun in the morning to be free from the threat of osteoporosis.

Treating Depression
It turns out that moving the body with a quick walk also helps patients with depression status. Walking hurriedly to replace antidepressants should be taken regularly. Studyaffairs free from depression by walking is done over 10 years.

So do not hesitate, do not hurt you to start living healthy by walking every day.(Excerpted from various sources)

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