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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...

How many people do you know who are on a diet?   All of us have relatives or friends that are always bragging about the latest diet they are trying.   Juicing is now in.   I have many relatives that are buying their juicers and lots of fruits and vegetables.    At least this diet craze packs a nutrition punch rather than taking foods and nutrients out of one’s diet as many fad diets do.   But rarely do we hear, “I need to lose weight so I am pumping up my exercise.”   I like my desserts and I like to eat so rather than diet I try to hit the gym, walk, bicycle and up my exercise.   This method seems to be supported by the latest research which indicates many overweight people aren’t overeating but under-exercising.   Stanford University researchers noted the strong correlation between the rise in obesity to the significant drop in time spent exercising.   They didn’t find Americans are eating more but they did find many of us are exe...

Too many Americans are couch potatoes.   Not just sitting or lying on the couch but sitting and being sedentary for a good portion of the day.   In my recent nutrition class, we talked about overweight children.   A number of studies have shown overweight children don’t necessarily eat more than their peers but they do sit more than their peers and get much less exercise.   Not only is exercise beneficial to our health in many ways, it may actually reduce our risk of cancer and reduce inflammation.   An article in Environmental Nutrition notes, “Regular physical activity seems to reduce chronic low-grade inflammation that can lead to DNA damage and promotes unhealthy cell growth that can lead to cancer.”   (Cancer-fighting plant foods ) More physical exercise lowers our risk of a number of cancers. But one can’t just exercise for 30 minutes and then sit the rest of the day.   Studies have also shown sitting too much seems to negate some of the...