WALKING BENEFITS(Keywords: Walking Benefits, benefits walking, chiropractic help, causes of osteoporosis, plantar myofascitis, heel spur)
"Nearly one quarter of Americans do not engage in any leisure-time activity." Archives of Internal Medicine
Four new studies by researchers at Harvard revealed that women who at 50-60 exercise regularly were less likely after 70 to What's more all adults in this age group who engaged in physical exercise - such as walking benefits - were less likely to become cognitively impaired that their couch-potato friends. Afraid of losing your marbles...? Walking benefits. Further still, they had denser bones, and fell less. Less broken hips, wrists, shoulders... In short, exercising regularly means not only living longer but more importantly improving your QUALITY OF LIFE. Ah, walking ... sublime!Perhaps the great beauty of walking benefits is the endless possibilities. Whether it's your grandchild taking her first step, or Roald Amundsen's epic 2200 km hike to the South Pole in 1911, or Hillary and Tenzing conquering of the summit of Everest in 1953, walking offers untold unexpected pleasures and challenges. Then there's Neil Armstrong's, "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind."And of course, don't forget Granny, after the broken hip. Ah, walking benefits. Question: Why wait until AFTER the broken hip to start walking? Start rather now - there is powerful research that it will then perhaps never happen.
For the privileged few there's a walk through the famed Kruger National Park with a guard, rifle in hand, just in case ... walking benefits abound. It could be you, if you pay a visit to South Africa. Be sure to include a hike a in the Drakensberg Mountains. No where can you find a friendlier welcome than at the Antbear. In fact, they'll organise your SA sightseeing trip for you. Lots of walking benefits. Just Google "Antbear". "Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much."
Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803 - 1882
For me walking does what most other sports can't do. It gives me space to explore my whole self, body, mind and spirit. What other sports can you enjoy, and at the same time, think, sing, pray ...? Why is all this important for the chiropractor? After your injury, be it an ankle, a low back or a hip or any other, of course, your exercising will have to go back to square one. The snakes are grinning, but wait, with the right ladders you will eventually sully forth from that horrid pit of despair that has accosted you - if you will give your injury time to heal, and do the correct rehabilitation. It's a great challenge for the chiropractor to motivate the athlete with a torn hamstring, or the elderly woman who has broken her hip, to start with walking after injury, or face re-injury, and months of extra rehab. It's been said that it's not how far you travelled, but how much you saw and heard and smelt and felt along the way, that counts. Nowhere is that more true than on Shanks Pony, and to a lesser extent the bicycle. Time to pick a few wild cherries growing beside the road, save a lonely toad from a hole or watch an eagle soaring a thermal.
Ever tried gliding? Want to fly? That's not so preposterous as you might think, and not as expensive either. Soaring with eagles (literally) is one of the most sublime experiences of a life time. If you're tiring of walking benefits, take a break down this little alleyway. Remember to come back, hey! I'll be waiting to tell you about the benefits of walking on your cholesterol levels. Click on the picture.
This is a complex disease, but quite a lot is known about it. Including that a walk every day actually causes the brain to INCREASE in size. It's a greedy organ, requiring prodigious amounts of fully oxygenated blood. More exercise = More blood to the brain = More oxygen = Bigger brain. Literally. The jury is out: Walking reduces the incidence and seriousness of Alzheimers. ALZHEIMERS TESTTake the one minute test. You will need a second person to count for you. Can you name more than 20 kinds of fruit in one minute. And secondly, 20 animals? Less than 10? ... you had better start walking! Read more at Pastissues about the Alzheimers test.Most cholesterol pills lower both lower both the LDLs AND the friendly HDLs. Walking lowers LDLs, but raises the HDLs. For more about cholesterol,
click here: CHOLESTEROL ALCOHOL ... What's more, it proved twice as effective for lowering blood glucose as following a stringent diet regimen.
Read more about diabetes and fitness … From the CoalfaceCharcot footA mister Hardeman has been consulting me recently concerning pain in his left foot. What is unusual is that he is 87 and has been injecting himself with insulin for over 50 years.'When did the pain start, Mr Hardeman?' 'About two years ago.' 'Did anything happen?' 'Not that I know of. My wife and walk about five kilometres every day - I have done ever since I was diagnosed with diabetes. About two years ago is started hurting after our walk. Walking is very painful now.' I put the CD with the x-rays of his foot into my computer and had to suppress a little gasp. The arch of his foot has collapsed completely, and there is advanced change in the bone structure associated with a condition called Charcot foot.
Charcot foot (diagnosed by the radiologist) is caused by a serious softening of the bone in people with a neuropathy - and diabetes is king of the nerve diseases - blindness and weakness of the muscles, bones too. But wait. Did he have the other signs of a Charcot foot? 'Please remove your shoes and socks, Mr Hardeman. Let's have a look.' It didn't take me long to confirm that there was no warmth, swelling or redness, the cardinal signs. However, I couldn't feel the pulse behind the ankle bone, or on top of the foot. What was very evident was joint fixation in what is called the 'subtalar joint' and in the midfoot, and a plantar myofascitis ... 'Encouraging news, Mr Hardeman. I think I may be able to help. I'm not making any promises but ... The long and the short of it was that after only one treatment, he declared that the pain was 40% less, and could he start walking again? I wasn't really treating the disease, but a chiropractic problem in the foot that anyone, with or without diabetes can get. All the walking benefits have saved him from the devastating effects of diabetes, but ultimately the softness of the bones associated with the diabetes had caught up with him. We've got him walking in soft shoes, on firm lawns, and today he is very much alive and walking. At 87 I find him an inspiration, a man who has conquered the most feared of diseases by his disciplined walking, a real tribute to the power of persistence.
It's no coincidence that depression soars in the long winter months in countries far from the equator. It's called Seasonally Affected Disorder or SAD. The solution is not pills, but a good walk. Walking benefits abound. For more about simple things you can do for depression, read this short Johns Hopkins medical report. Copy and paste into Google: http://www.johnshopkinshealthalerts.com/alerts/depression_anxiety/JohnsHopkinsHealthAlertsDepressionAnxiety_2677-1.html?ET=johnshopkins:e12288:243677a:&st=email&st=email&s=W1R_0812 The big plus of course is that you will improve your muscle tone, decrease the likelihood of osteoporosis, and be a lot more mentally relaxed, so I'm not poo-pooing a long walk every day. Just I don't think most obese folk will manage it. And the downside if you are seriously overweight? Sore feet, no time for other (less important, it's true) things, and the sneaky feeling that you won't keep it up. It's just over the top. You could instead, of course, take a fast one hour bike ride or an hour swimming lengths in the pool. Done EVERY day, SEVEN days a week, and you will lose one pound a week. That's assuming you don't eat more, 'cause you're going to be starving! Negative? Not really, as a chiropractor I am totally in favour of more exercise. It will do you a power of good, but as a weight loss technique, walking benefits is a dead loss. Much better, consider our free weight loss programs, eat more sensibly and take a regular reasonable walk that you know you can manage and keep up. For more about our free weight loss programs
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LEG LENGTH INEQUALITYIf one leg is shorter than the other it will standing and especially strolling slowly (as in shopping) difficult. It also causes a greater likelihood of hip arthritis. Get a heel lift of the right size from your chiropractor.
"If a woman rebels against high-heeled shoes, she should take care to do it in a very smart hat." - George Bernard Shaw WALKING SPEEDResearch shows that if you train yourself to walk faster, and deal with the problems (like foot pain ) that slow you down, you will add years of life... quality years too. WALKING SPEED ...USEFUL LINKSTo go from Walking Benefits to CHIROPRACTIC HELP Questions ... by all means submit a question ... MONTHLY NEWSLETTER - light and informativeBACK ISSUES... Issue #13: Can a DC help your Lumbar Facet Syndrome / Strawberries, a wonder food Issue #12: Help Baby Colic Cures 2 / Eggplant for high cholesterol Issue #11: Groin and Thigh Pain / Hummus Issue #10: Friday Fun Stones in my Clog. / Cucumber Issue #09: Friday Fun: Headache Issue #08: Spinal Stenosis/ Celery Issue #07: Root of all Healing / Garbanzo beans /Chickpeas Issue #06: Safety on the Stairs / Ginger Issue #05: Safety in the home / Red foods Issue #04: Whiplash and the Joints of Luschka / Parsley Issue #03: How to stop falling / Danger of a low fat diet Issue #01: Tingling in the arms and hands / Apples (PS. If you find them irrelevant to your needs or an exercise in tedium, one click will UNsubscribe you.) Walking BenefitsDid you find this page useful? Then perhaps forward Walking Benefits to a suffering friend. |
