not just your body but also your mind. Brisk walking helps ease stress and anxiety, reduces depression and imparts a positive kick-start to your day. It improves your self-esteem, charges up the mood and helps to keep you energetic, positive and happy throughout the day.
Anti-cancer
Walking reduces risks and effects of cancer. Research shows that in colon cancer, a speedy walk can give less time to the carcinogens present in the food to come in touch with the intestinal lining and reduce the risks of having cancer from the start itself. With improved blood circulation, walking brings in positive energy within the body and therefore lessens the side effects of can help strengthen and shape your legs, giving great definition to calves, quads, hamstrings and lifting your glutes (buttock muscles) – especially if you add hills. But if you really pay attention to your posture as you walk, it can tone your abs and whittle your waist, too. As to you arms, it is said that your speed when walking comes from your arms and therefore it is suggested that you hold them at a comfortable level, bent at the elbow, and swing them backwards and forwards as you walk. Swing them faster and you'll automatically speed up. And all this movement tones your arms, shoulders and upper back. chemotherapy.
Miscarriages
Walking helps protect against miscarriages. Despite the several body changes during pregnancy, regular walking can benefit you in many ways. It can reduce fatigue and related pains, help lose weight easily, and lower risks of gestational diabetes. Walking can also prevent spontaneous abortions by lowering the hormonal fluctuations which cause uterine contractions.
Vit D
Walking boosts your vitamin D levels. If you're walking outside in daylight, you'll be boosting your body's stores of vitamin D – a nutrient that's hard to get from food, but that we can synthesise from exposure to sunlight. Many people are deficient in vitamin D and it's a nutrient that plays a big role in everything from bone health to immunity. While sun safety is still important experts agree that exposing as much skin as you can to the sun, little and often and without burning, will help you to produce sufficient vitamin D.
Better sex
Walk for better sexual health, say researchers. A regular habit of brisk walking can improve your performance in bed, it has been found. Walking a few kilometres a day boosts blood circulation which cuts down on the risk of impotency. You can be healthy and fit, and need not necessarily rely on medicines to keep your love life ac