Benefits of Walking
BREATHE THE FRESH AIR OF AN EARLY MORNING
WALK ON BY MASRAT JABEEN WANI
In today’s fast paced and busy life, people have to face many problems if they do not make any changes in their life style. Not only their dream of living long and healthy remains only a dream but the best of their time gets wasted.
We are told by elders that early rise has lot of benefits. According to many physicians, daily morning walk is one and only remedy for treating all diseases.
Morning walk indeed is “a great way to set you up for the day.” Morning walk requires no gym membership and no special equipment other than a good pair of walking shoes, and it can be done in your own neighborhood, spaces like Iqbal Park these days. Morning walk is especially beneficial for sedentary folks looking to ease their way back into an active lifestyle. Walking is one of the easiest and safest ways to be healthy and stay fit.
People of all ages can take benefit of walking. Morning walk offers numerous benefits to health when performed in a suitable manner. For aged people, the first and most important benefit of walking is that it increases the blood circulation system in the body and helps to decrease the risk of chronic disorder such as diabetes, cancer, blood pressure, heart related issues, etc.
Breathing the fresh air of an early morning is healthy for each soul. A morning walk is an adventure in itself. Scented with fragrance of flowers the walk is a healthy experience for all as it helps to lessen the burden of life though in a minimum timeframe morning walking helps to burn fat.
Morning walking also has a psychological benefit. A few minutes spent walking each morning helps you to center your thoughts, invigorates you and helps put you one step closer to a healthy lifestyle.
Morning walking offers an opportunity to create a good feeling first thing in the morning and sustain that feeling through the day.
Walking in the morning helps to get enough oxygen for the body. As with any endurance activity, walking increases sweating that helps to flush out foreign substances together with perspiration. In the morning, fresh and pollution-free air ensures to get good quality oxygen as well as helps to get activated all the organs of the body.
The morning mist also provides moisturizing effect on skin.
By taking daily morning walk, one can prevent some diseases such as depression, diabetes, heart attack and asthma. Early morning walk in the garden helps to improve concentration as well a memory. Bare foot walking on grass weeds helps to reduce the eye sight number. Fifteen minutes of brisk walking a day helps to lose weight fast and also to strengthen the body.
Walking activates your senses and also gifts you a long and healthy life.
Lastupdate on : Sun, 8 Apr 2012 21:30:00 Makkah time
Lastupdate on : Sun, 8 Apr 2012 18:30:00 GMT
Lastupdate on : Mon, 9 Apr 2012 00:00:00 IST
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