In one study, mortality rates among retired men who walked less than one mile per day were nearly twice that among those who walked more than two miles per day. Walking strengthens your heart if you're male.The Diabetes Prevention Program showed that walking 150 minutes per week and losing just 7% of your body weight (12-15 pounds) can reduce your risk of diabetes by 58%. Is walking our salvation? I don't know for sure, but evidence suggests that it's probably a good start. But fewer than 50% of American adults do enough exercise to gain any health or fitness benefits from physical activity. You'd think a simple activity like walking would be just that, simple. Inactivity is the second leading preventable cause of death in the United States, second only to tobacco use. But research shows that all this automation is bad for our health. The environment plays a part too inactivity has been engineered into our lives, from escalators to remote controls to riding lawn mowers to robotic vacuum cleaners to electric toothbrushes to the disappearance of sidewalks and safe places to walk. In fact, most adults spend most of their day sitting - as many as 6.5 hours. Part of the reason may be your hectic, stressful life, with not a moment to spare for recreation or formal exercise. Remember your first step? What a fuss everyone made! And then you continued to walk right on through childhood, adolescence, and into adulthood, but somewhere along the way, like most adults, you probably stopped walking so much.
With the right tips on techniques and tracking calories burned, get started on your fitness journey. Walking as a form of exercise has numerous health benefits, including weight loss, improved cognitive function, reduced risk of depression, reduced risk of breast cancer and colon cancer, and more.
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