Health Benefits of Walking |
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We hope Walk This Way will help
you turn walking into a healthy habit. Walking offers many benefits to
your body.
Walking can: |
- reduce your diabetes risk by 50 percent.
- reduce your heart disease risk by 40 percent.
- reduce your breast cancer risk by 20 percent.
- reduce your risk of stroke and colon cancer.
- help maintain bone density and prevent osteoporosis.
- reduce stress.
- help you lose weight.
- improve your cholesterol level.
- help you sleep more soundly.
- give you more energy.
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| Tips for healthy
walking |
- Adults need 150 minutes (2hrs, 30 min)
of moderate intensity aerobic activity (brisk walking) every week.
- Walk at least 5 days a week.
- Over time, increase the intensity, duration and/or
frequency of your walks to maximize your health benefits.
- Children & adolescents should do 60
minutes or more of physical activity each day.
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