Walk more for greater health benefits
Everyone knows that walking is good for you. New studies have show how good walking is for your overall health. If a short walk is good, is a longer walk better? How much walking does one have to do to improve health? How much walking is needed to improve health? Sedentary is bad, walking is good , is a new way to look at activity. A sedentary person who only walks about 1,000 steps a day who ups it to 3,000 steps a day can improve their health. A study published in PLOS One , and highlighted in More Steps a day keep the doctor away , found that the more steps you do the greater the health benefits. But even increasing walking from 1000 t0 3000 steps a day resulted in a 12% lowered mortality risk. Those who met the goal of walking 10,000 steps a day lowered their mortality risk a whopping 46%. They determined this by tracking 3,000 Australians, average age of 58, for over 15 years. The study participants wore...