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Walking to Lose Weight and Its Other Benefits

By ebazaar ⋅ January 27, 2009 ⋅

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Everyone wants a nice, slim and most important of all, a perfectly healthy body, or at least close to perfect.

However, the biggest challenge might not be the thought of it; rather it is more on keeping up on it. Most people embark on a dieting plan with a firing desire, but as time pass by they might lose that fire seeing that it is too difficult to follow either the healthy eating plans or the physical exercise routines.

Well, I’m not going to talk much about the eating plans in this post. If you are interested on knowing more about healthy eating plan, you might as well visit the healthy eating plan blog. Just like what the title described, the initial motive was actually to bring forth to everyone the benefit of walking. Yes, walking is a very effective exercise to stay healthy, fit and active. The best part is that it may not be as strenuous as any other exercise and almost everyone can do it!

Reasons as to why you should start walking?, and how it works for you to achieve your goal of staying fit and healthy:

i. It is good for your heart. This is because walking lowers blood pressure, reduces cholesterol and helps in preventing strokes.

ii. Be more flexible with walking exercise! Walking is another proven method for you to get fitter and benefit from better coordination. You will also become less prone to accidents and injuries because it helps in building stronger bones, improved mobility and muscle control.

iii. Wants stronger bones? Then, get walking. This is because walking is a weight-bearing exercise, which means it increases and maintains bones density, helping to prevent fractures and osteoporosis, while inhibiting osteoarthritis.

iv. Your head will feel lighter and the brain will definitely benefit too. Walking boosts blood and oxygen supply to the brain, as well as the whole body. It makes you be more alert, improves memory, creativity and problem solving skills.

v. It fights fat! Yes, it does and the great news is that walking helps you to increase your metabolic rate. Well, this shows that as long as you are moving, exercise and watch what you are eating, you can keep on burning the calories long after you stopped. So it’s true, it does help you in weight loss!

vi. You’ll feel younger, happier and live longer. Believe it or not, walking raises blood level of mood-enhancing chemicals like dopamine, adrenaline, beta-endorphins and serotonin. Besides that it keeps your skin toned and look fresher by boosting the blood and oxygen supply to your cells.

There you go, among all the many reasons as to why you should try walking at least 10 minutes a day as a form of exercise add-on to your daily routine. If you are feeling lazy to keep up with a stringent fitness routine, you can always switch to brisk or leisure walking around the neighborhood. Walking really works!

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