Health Benefits of Walking
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.
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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