Walking for at least 30 minutes five days a week will lower your risk of coronary heart disease by around 19%. Furthermore, increasing the length or distance you walk every day may cut your risk even further.
One billion steps challenge aims is to raise awareness of the importance of physical activity amongst community members.
Even just walking just three times a week seems to give people better mental health than not exercising at all. Whereas, exercising in 45-minute sessions three to five times a week was the most beneficial for improving mental health.
Emotional eating is using food to make yourself feel better. It's a new way to deal with stress and anxiety, which is becoming very common with each passing day. People try to fulfill their emotional needs by stuffing food and later feel guilty about the same.
The championships will have 35km and 20km race walk events for men and 20km event for women. There will also be 10km events for both U-10 men and women.
While taking a walk is helpful in maintaining physical fitness, a recent study has revealed that walking with a purpose - especially walking to get to work, makes people walk faster and consider themselves to be healthier.
According to Shane O'Mara, a neuroscientist and author of the new book 'In Praise of Walking', walking is actually a hugely complicated task for our brain to pull off. It's a super-power, own up to it!
Sitting for a very long time, not only makes us inactive but also leads to fatigue. We gain weight, feel lethargic and drained out. Thus, we must take up a quick 5-minute workout even at the office.
Indulging in moderate physical activity, such as swimming, brisk walking, or running two to three hours a week may also reduce the severity of strokes than people who are physically inactive.
In the fitness challenge video, PM Modi was seen walking barefoot on gravel, sand and in water. Here are the amazing health benefits of walking barefoot on grass.
The researchers also found that average pace walkers aged 60 years or over experienced a 46 per cent reduction in risk of death from cardiovascular causes, and fast pace walkers a 53 percent reduction.
Researchers have revealed that the physical activities are directly linked to your happiness.
Researchers revealed that brisk walking for 30 minutes daily can help in improving health.
The study comes at a time when north India is facing a serious crisis due to rising levels of pollution.
A middle-aged person with slow walking pace is more likely to develop heart disease than others.
Light physical activity is equivalent to walking slowly, while moderate is equivalent to a brisk walk and vigorous a strenuous run.
In addition to benefitting your heart and muscles, a regular walk also contributes to keeping your brain healthy, new research suggests.
A person's walk can reveal a lot about their levels of aggression, a new study has found. Reseachers at University of Portsmouth in Britian said, that the way people walk says a lot about their
Moderate physical activities such as walking and cycling are associated with a greater than 50 pc reduction in cardiovascular death in people over the age of 65, says a study. "Our study provides further evidence
New Delhi: Walking briskly on daily basis is more effective than vigorously jogging for patients with pre-diabetes, a new study has found. The findings are the result of a six-month study of 150 participants, each
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