vineri, 16 decembrie 2011

Benefits of walking!

Walking regularly is an effective and convenient method for maintaining physical and mental health. Although all of us predicts beneficial effects of walking, scientists recently conducted several studies showed objective benefits that bring this activity. Demonstrated in this respect, the role that is walking each day, over a distance of several kilometers in preventing cardiovascular diseases, immune diseases, and breast cancer or colon.

         
Although natural and accessible to anyone walking tends to be removed from everyday activity as the century of speed many people prefer car or means of transportation. Thus, we deny the privilege of modern life activity with multiple health benefits, easy to practice without risk, inexpensive, can be easily integrated into the daily program.

    
Here are 10 ways to improve your health walking:
A. Stimulates the heart, is training that your heart needs to function optimally to keep fit and to cope with higher demands. 30 minutes of daily walking reduces the risk of heart attack as much as an intensive program of exercise;
Two. Maintain muscle tone, increase intake of nutrients and oxygen to the muscles;
Three. Improves blood circulation in the legs and prevent varicose veins;
Four. Raise HDL's (cholesterol, so-called "good") and indirectly protects the heart and circulatory system;
Five. Improves blood pressure;
6. Stimulates tissue oxygenation by increasing combustion and increased respiration;
July. Maintaining its flow slows blood clotting and thus protects the thrombotic or heart disease;
August. Improves the immune system by increasing the secretion of endorphins. The body will be better prepared to fight infection.
September. Stimulates good mood and mental relaxation through endorphins secreted during walking, along with other physiological factors, such as 30-minute daily visible improved mood of those with major depressive disorder (study of the University of Texas)
10. Decreased risk of death from cancer - a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine shows that those who go daily a distance of three kilometers have a risk of death from cancer two and a half times lower than those undertaking long distance with the same frequency .

        
Walking is therefore a source of incredible health, which many of us ignore the lack of time, convenience or ignorance. Long walk with a friend are bracing for body and soul, both muscles and mind relax, relax physically and mentally. So next time you run after the bus once more to think you better walk the two stations.

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