Health Benefits of Walking

created on 1/21/22 @ 12:52PM, updated on 1/21/22 @ 12:52PM

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Insider provides a slew of potential benefits of walking, listing its 7 benefits as:

  1. Burn Calories and lose weight

  2. Increase energy levels

  3. Boost immune system

  4. Ease pain

  5. Improve heart health

  6. Reduce stress, improve mood, and fight depression

  7. Extend life expectancy

7 benefits of walking and how it can improve your health

7 benefits of walking and how it can improve your health

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William Fan

This is a thorough review on the literature of walking that helps assist in the problem for "health professionals [who] are presented with the challenge of prescribing physical activity that is likely to be sustained by the sedentary majority".  

The review provides this summary:

Walking has the potential to play a key role in the primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease. Clinicians can prescribe walking to assist patients meet physical activity recommendations and help identify supports available to the patient.

Evidence from epidemiological studies suggest that even small improvements in the amount of daily walking is better than no walking, and greater increases confer larger cardiovascular health benefits. Patients may accrue short-terms gains such as improved fitness, body composition, blood pressure and lipid profiles. Longer term benefits include reduced risk of CHD, coronary events and mortality. Patients should gradually raise their walking levels, with the public health recommendation of 150 minutes per week as a minimum goal.

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William Fan

The Healthline article provides a slew of reasons and evidence showcasing the power of walking including maintaining a health weight and lowering your body fat, maintaining lean tissue, and improving your mood. All of these can factor into improving health risk percentages for heart diseases and type 2 diabetes.

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Walking helps in maintaining a healthy weight. On average a person can burn about 150 calories with 30 minutes of walking.

Some other listed benefits of walking from the Mayo Clinic include:

  • Maintain a healthy weight and lose body fat

  • Prevent or manage various conditions, including heart disease, stroke, high blood pressure, cancer and type 2 diabetes

  • Improve cardiovascular fitness

  • Strengthen your bones and muscles

  • Improve muscle endurance

  • Increase energy levels

  • Improve your mood, cognition, memory and sleep

  • Improve your balance and coordination

  • Strengthen immune system

  • Reduce stress and tension

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