Benefits of Walking for 30 Minutes
By Ashley
If you have just 30 minutes of spare time during your day, you can use it to better your health. Even if you have to skip your favorite TV show, it’ll be worth it! A recent study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine found that incorporating 30 minutes of walking into your day can have unbelievable benefits. They found it was enough to prevent weight gain (and who doesn’t want to prevent weight gain?) and can help encourage moderate weight loss. I can vouch for this too!
Back in the Fall of 2006, I was finishing my last semester of college student teaching in a 2nd grade classroom. It was definitely one of the most challenging times of my life and a time where I had hardly enough energy to come home and cook dinner, let alone go back out to go to the gym. My husband and I had already gotten into the habit of taking a daily walk previous to my student teaching, and so we continued to take our walks while I was teaching. Not only did walking help calm my mind and give us a chance to talk about what went on during the day, but my husband was able to maintain his weight and I was able to drop a few pounds over 5 months.
If you really don’t have 30 minutes to give up, don’t worry, a brisk 10 minute walk can be quite effective as well. Helene Glassberg, MD says, “Just the act of going from sedentary to moderately active gives you the greatest reduction in your risks.” Take baby steps! Start incorporating just 10 minutes of activity, and when you have more time, up that time to 20 or 30 minutes. At the same time, remember to take baby steps at the dinner table to eliminate fats or unhealthy foods that your body could do without.
Source: WebMD
Post Tags: healthy, walking, weight
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