Walk for Life... Your own Life
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Walking, a very simple exercise, has many health benefits. In fact, it is proven to increase your life span - more legitimately proven than that exercise gizmo you ordered off of late night tv.
A study conducted over 8 years, with 13,000 people, showed significant decrease in premature death with subjects who walked 30 minutes a day when compared to those who were mostly inactive. It's pretty crazy to think that every step your take your somewhat buying yourself another millisecond of time on earth.
How does Walking Increase Longevity?
Walking does many things to increase both longevity and quality of life. Walking can help you live longer by lowering your blood pressure, reducing blood cholesterol, and improving your cardiovascular system. It also improves how well you live the rest of your life by maintaining the youth of your body. Walking assists maintenance of bone strength and burns calories to avoid weight gain.
Want to live longer and healthier?
I do - life's pretty fun. So I try to walk more and sit less. If you go to the gym and run, you probably don't have to focus on walking - but it can't hurt to get a few more steps in. If you're not active, and you are not the type to hit the gym, you need to focus on stepping. The weather has been great recently (by me at least), go out walking. You don't even need to break a sweat (if you're not the sweating type). Check out my walking tips before you get started.
But seriously, start walking - your life might depend on it.
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on 5/9/2008
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