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Benefits of Walking for Health

Walking is a powerful and easy form of exercise that provides many health benefits. It improves cardiovascular health by lowering blood pressure and cholesterol. Multiple studies have shown that walking increases longevity and quality of life. Even light walking can benefit both children and older adults. Walking is recommended for those who are sick or sedentary as it poses little risk of injury. Research also finds that people living in walkable neighborhoods have a lower risk of cardiovascular disease.

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Benefits of Walking for Health

Walking is a powerful and easy form of exercise that provides many health benefits. It improves cardiovascular health by lowering blood pressure and cholesterol. Multiple studies have shown that walking increases longevity and quality of life. Even light walking can benefit both children and older adults. Walking is recommended for those who are sick or sedentary as it poses little risk of injury. Research also finds that people living in walkable neighborhoods have a lower risk of cardiovascular disease.

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Guerrero, Mary Justine A.

HK 12 AB11
Attendance No. 9
Assignment No. 1

Walking, as an exercise, has been one of the most powerful methods to keep in shape, and live
healthier and longer. Essentially, it makes our quality of life better. It is also cheap and easy to
do. Unlike other exercises that require a lot of energy and mental preparation, walking is easy.
One can even do it without even noticing. According to Dr. Robert Sallis, “walking is the most
studied form of exercise, and multiple studies have proven that it’s the best thing we can do to
improve our overall health, and increase our longevity and functional years” (Wadyka, 2019). It
affects almost every part of us, from our mental well-being to our cardiovascular system to our
central nervous system. Something this easy, that even a child or an old person could do, can be
very beneficial to our health. This exercise can even be done by people who are sick. Walking was
actually the solution when health professionals were presented with the challenge of prescribing
a physical activity that poses little risk of injury and also can be sustained by people with health
issues or people who lives a sedentary lifestyle.

Walking has a positive effect on our cardiovascular and respiratory system. It is known to improve
cardiac risk factor such as blood pressure, obesity, cholesterol, diabetes, mental stress, and
vascular stiffness and inflammation (Harvard Health Publishing, 2018). When we are walking, the
levels of HDL cholesterol, known as the good cholesterol, increases. This lowers the risk of heart
disease by flushing the artery-clogging LDL, bad cholesterol, out of our system. Over the past
decades, many scientific reports have proven the correlation between walking and
cardiovascular health. Expert panels, such as Center for Disease Control and Prevention,
American Heart Association, and American College of Sports Medicine, have reinforced scientific
evidence that links walking to various measures of vascular health. It is found that people who
live a sedentary lifestyle is more prone to develop heart disease (Myers, 2003). Some recent
studies have went far even as decided to look into walkable neighborhoods. Dr. Nicholas Howell
studied the relationship between walkable neighborhoods and risk of cardiovascular disease. He
found out from the 44,00 Canadians he studied that people living in this type of neighborhood
have lower risk of cardiovascular disease (Wadyaka, 2019).
References:

Harvard Health Publishing (2018) Walking: Your steps to health. Retrieved from
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health#:~:text=The%20cardiovascular%20benefits%20of%20walking,and%20inflammation%2C
%20and%20mental%20stress.

Myers, J (2003) Exercise and Cardiovascular Health. Retrieved from


https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.1161/01.CIR.0000048890.59383.8D

Wadyka, S. (2019) How to Get the Biggest benefits of Walking. Retrieved from
https://www.consumerreports.org/exercise-fitness/benefits-of-walking/

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