Take a Five-Minute Walk Every Hour
Taking a five-minute walk every hour counters the negative effects of sitting at a desk or on a couch for long hours. Extended sitting is bad for blood pressure and cholesterol and contributes to...
View ArticleDaily Walking May Reduce Stroke Risk
Older men who regularly walk for exercise may significantly reduce their risk of stroke, suggests research published online 11-13-2013, in the journal Stroke. The study included 3,435 men, ages 60 to...
View ArticleWalking Groups Provide Health Bonuses
If you’re looking for a way to increase your physical activity, you might want to consider joining a walking group. In a survey published early this year in the British Journal of Sports Medicine,...
View ArticleRamp It Up
“Walking at even a slow pace improves cardiovascular fitness,” says Robert Ross, an exercise physiologist at Queens University in Canada. Ross recently led a six month study of treadmill walking in 300...
View ArticleTake a Short Pre-meal Walk
Health experts have long agreed that exercise helps stabilize blood sugar. Now they’ve improved on that advise: Turns out, doing one minute of intense exercise (such as brisk walking) followed by one...
View ArticleHeart: Track Your Steps
Wearable trackers provide good incentive to park in back of the lot or take the stairs. But worry less about hitting a magic number than just trying to walk more. Track your steps on a normal day, than...
View ArticleWalking Delivers Host of Health Benefits
People are sometimes surprised at how many health benefits occur simply by walking regularly. According to Mayo Clinic, a regimen of walking can help you decrease bad cholesterol, increase good...
View ArticleNaturally Lower Blood Sugar
You don’t have to spend hours in the gym to get the blood-sugar-lowering benefits pf exercise. Short, but frequent walking breaks-as brief as two minutes every half hour-can lower blood sugar. Or, take...
View ArticleWhen You Can’t Get to 10,000 Steps
We hear you, some days there just isn’t enough time to fit in the recommended 10K steps. The solution: Hustle A new study found that while more activity is best, taking fewer steps still has health...
View ArticleBig Benefits of Dog Walking
In a U.K. study of older adults, dog owners who walked their canine companions at least once a day were 20 percent more active than people who had no dog. They also sat about 30 minutes less a day and...
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