By walking, you get one of the best ways to get fresh air circulation to your lungs and get the natural vitamin D your body needs from direct sunlight. Even just out of the house and moving light exercise exemplified by elementary school teachers (SD), enough to improve the mood and the morning is full of passion for the move.
By just walking every day on a regular basis of at least 30 minutes, you will get 5 benefits that impact on improving mental and physical health. Mayo Clinic, a medical research group from Rochester, Minnesota, USA recommends walking as a low-impact exercise to reduce the risk of disease, and the 5 benefits are as follows:
1. Improving Mental Health
One of the most crucial things about walking is to improve your mood. With the morning sun and the surrounding scenery before the smoke of motor vehicles that contain CO (carbon monoxide) is faster binding Hb (red blood cells) compared with oxygen, so when inhaled carbon CO will be faster to enter the body, which can lead to hard to breathe. So, exercise on a morning walk can improve the mood that benefits are gained because of the absence of emissions gases that disrupt sports activities that should increase the morale for activity.2. Effectively Lose Weight
Dr. Thomas Frieden, Director of the Harvard University Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that over 12,000 study participants had 32 genes that resulted in obesity. The gene contributes a lot to weight. Some participants are Harvard students themselves and those who have walking activities when leaving college tend to have a non-overweight posture (not overweight).
Standard Body Mass Index (BMI) is a way to tell if a person has obesity. BMI calculation formula:
BMI = weight (kg) / (height (m) x height (m))
People who have a BMI greater than 25 can be said to be overweight, 30 and above including the obesity category, and 40 and above are serious obesity.
That is, if you can spend at least 30 minutes on foot every day on a regular basis can prevent diseases such as hypertension, diabetes, and coronary heart disease. This situation also increases the arthritis that causes shortness of breath, sleep apnea, and fatigue quickly.
If your BMI exceeds 27 or less than 18 it is best to consult your doctor immediately to guide in the ideal weight-management program for a healthier life.
3. Help Improve the Immune System
According to a research study University of South Carolina provides the fact that by just walking at least 15 minutes a day alone can increase cell levels in the immune system.A person who walks at least 5 days for 15 minutes a week has 43% of immunity not exposed to the disease. And if they are sick, the illness is only mild symptoms and the duration of pain is shorter than those who do not walk.
By burning calories while walking, the immune system performs a series of steps the immune system will attack various antigens (foreign bodies that enter the body) to ward off a kind of microbial disease such as viruses, parasites, bacteria, and fungi as immune forms to protect the body from various antigen disease that comes at any time.
4. Avoid From Cardiovascular Disease
A study from the Harvard University Vocational Health found that walking approximately 20 minutes a day can reduce the risk of heart disease by 40%. That way, walking provides its own benefits to improve heart health and avoid cardiovascular disease is a very scary disease. Worldwide mortality from cardiovascular disease is 30%, of all causes of death (WHO report 2004).
Effective walking to relieve early symptoms of cardiovascular disease because it can reduce the amount of sugar high in the blood due to insulin resistance or diabetes.
5. Helps Extend Age
People who do not exercise regularly and only spend their time lazing are more likely to get sick physically and mentally. Millennial generation is now very helpful with the latest technological facilities, but some people who forget about his health because it is too engrossed with daily pampered gadget.
Because of this laziness, the American Health Association appeals to those who are lazy to exercise to walk at least once every 4 days a week to benefit from walking on their own is to promote better physical and mental health. When you are lazy to exercise, walk on a regular basis at a relatively young age in order to reduce the chances of having physical disabilities drastically.
The most important point in a small sport on foot is to always do not get tired of increasing daily activities by always actively moving and balanced by applying a healthy lifestyle pattern. For example, keeping food intake, stop smoking, do not laze that can cause mental stress such as stress, keep doing sports and so forth.
