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MAKE HABIT OF WALKING

MAKE HABIT OF WALKING

Regular, exercise of any kind can improve confidence, stamina, energy, weight control and life expectancy and reduce stress. We have lots of physical benefits with walking like peaceful mind, improving memory skills, learning ability, concentration and abstract reasoning, as well as reducing stress and lifting spirits. Walking may in addition help prevent dementia and Alzheimer’s.

Walking sessions for a minimum period of thirty to sixty minutes a day, five days a week, with the correct walking posture, reduce health risks and have various overall health benefits, and reducing the chances of cancer, type 2 diabetes, heart disease, anxiety and depression. The person with diabetes who walkes for 2 or more hours a week lowered their mortality (death) rate from all causes by 39 per cent.

Regular walking enhances the blood circulation. It improves the strength and flexibility of muscles and joints. It gives a relief from fatigue, arthritis pain and backache.

So that you have understood the health benefits of walking, you can start this simple exercise right from today. It will improve your physical fitness as well as protect the environment from the pollution.

 

-M. Sujatha