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The amazing power of walking
by Ben Hirshberg
(NaturalNews) Sometimes the best solutions are the most simple. This appears to be the case with walking, arguably the simplest form of exercise. Walking is gentle on the body and takes no special equipment to perform, making it also a very accessible way to exercise. There has been quite a bit of research done on the effectiveness of walking and the results are staggering.
Decreased pain and disability
Walking appears to make the body stronger and more resilient in addition to being therapeutic. When people suffering from knee arthritis walked for only three hours a week, their pain and disability went down by nearly half. Walking for only four hours per week decreased the risk of hip fracture in post-menopausal women by over 40 percent.
Walking and mental health
Though physical activity and mental health are not always put in the same breath, walking also appears to have a significant impact on our happiness levels. In one study, nearly a third of the depressed patients reported feeling better after only a small dose of walking. When that small dose was increased, the number of depressed patients who were feeling better jumped to about half. Similarly, walking has been shown to reduce anxiety in about half of all patients who implement it into their routine.
Decreased illness and disease
The risk of disease and illness also seems to be significantly cut down when walking is added to the picture. Some research has found that walking can decrease the risk of heart disease by as much as 50 percent. Older patients who started a walking routine were able to reduce their progression of dementia and Alzheimer's by about half as well. In one study of patients at a high risk for diabetes, walking was combined with other lifestyle interventions and almost 60 percent of patients reduced the progression to frank diabetes.
Walking and lower mortality
All of these benefits point to a lower mortality rate as well. A Harvard alumni study followed graduates for a dozen years and found that people who walked had a 23 percent lower rate of death than those who did not walk. Cardiorespiratory fitness, something walking can influence, has also been pointed to as the best mortality predictor.
Though walking may never become a fitness fad, its benefits are undeniable. In fact, if a pill could produce effects similar to the statistics cited above, it would be the bestselling drug in the world. Until then the rest of us will be making strides naturally, one step at a time.
Sources for this article include
http://www.myfavouritemedicine.com/23-and-a-half-hours/
http://www.c3health.org
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk
http://www.post-gazette.com
http://www.10000stepsusa.com/Why-get-involved/Walking-Research
Suzanne
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Re: WALKING
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Walking Increases Creative Thinking
by David Gutierrez, staff writer
(NaturalNews) People perform more creatively when walking, according to a study conducted by researchers from Stanford University and published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition.
The findings -- which found as much as a 60 percent increase in ability to perform creative tasks while walking -- support anecdotal comments from many creative people who claim that they get their best ideas while walking. Some corporate executives have even been known to hold meetings while walking, including Steve Jobs (the late co-founder of Apple) and Mark Zuckerberg (co-founder of Facebook).
"This study is another justification for integrating bouts of physical activity into the day, whether it's recess at school or turning a meeting at work into a walking one," researcher Dr. Marily Oppezzo said. "We'd be healthier, and maybe more innovative for it."
Measuring creativity
The researchers had 176 adults complete a number of tasks designed to measure creativity in one of four conditions: walking indoors, walking outdoors, sitting indoors or sitting outdoors. The walking indoors condition consisted of a treadmill facing a wall, while the sitting outdoors condition consisted of being pushed in a wheelchair along the same path that the walkers took. This was designed to control for any effect on creativity from changing scenery.
The researchers performed three different experiments in which participants were asked to think of as many uses as possible for three separate objects over the course of four minutes. This is designed to measure divergent thinking, a way of generating ideas by coming up with as many potential solutions as possible. The researchers then rated participants' responses based on appropriateness and novelty (i.e., how many other participants had come up with the same use). In one of these studies, treadmill participants scored 60 percent higher than participants in the sitting indoors group.
Another experiment sought to measure a different variety of creativity. Participants were given a prompt and asked to create as complex of an analogy as possible. Analogies were scored based on how profoundly they captured the many elements of the original prompt. For example, in response to "a robbed safe," a participant would score more highly for saying "a soldier suffering from PTSD" than for saying "an empty wallet." This is because the former response better captured the emotions of dysfunction, violation and loss implied by "a robbed safe."
One hundred percent of participants who walked outside were able to generate at least one high-quality, complex analogy; in contrast, only 50 percent of the sitting indoors participants were able to do so.
Surprising findings
Finally, the researchers performed a test to see if non-creative thinking could also benefit from walking. Participants were given a test of convergent thinking, which requires arriving at a single, correct answer. The test consisted of looking at three words (e.g., "Swiss, cake and cottage") and identifying the word that connected them all ("cheese").
In contrast with the creative tests, participants performed slightly worse on the convergent tests while walking. This suggests that walking does not just benefit thinking in general, Oppezzo said, but the process of divergent, creative thinking in particular.
Surprisingly, the researchers found that walking indoors appeared to provide the same effect as walking outdoors.
Oppezzo originally thought that "walking outside would blow everything out of the water, but walking on a treadmill in a small, boring room still had strong results, which surprised me."
The creative benefits of walking lasted for a short time after the walk had concluded.
Next, the researchers hope to determine if all mild exercise has the same benefits, or if walking is special in some way.
Sources for this article include:
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com
http://psycnet.apa.org
http://science.naturalnews.com
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Bob Hope, lived 100 years, 1903-2003. In an interview with Weekly World News in 1981, at age 78 he said: "I walk 2 miles every night, no matter what city I'm in."
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Brief walks miraculously reverse health damage caused by sitting for too long
by L.J. Devon, Staff Writer
(NaturalNews) Sedentary lifestyles are more commonplace than ever before. It's easy to let a haze of laziness fall over the body when everything has become so convenient. The depravity of modern society is self-inflicted. More and more people are crying victim, but all along have been victimizing themselves.
Something as simple as walking has become a chore for many people. Out in the public square, people limp and drag their feet with no apparent injury. They simply have lost the energy in their gait, the muscle in their step, and the fluidity in their motion. Society has descended into such a convenient state that people no longer appreciate their ability to move, walk or run. For many, it hurts to move. Transported around in motorized carts, hobbling along — people with so much potential aren't even up and walking like they should. With their heads hung low, sometimes they can't even talk or say hello.
When did fully capable adults become such a mockery of those who are truly born disabled? Was it when society started awarding the victim mentality, reinforcing those who disabled themselves, those who lay in their self-inflicted state of doom, craving sympathy?
Arterial strength miraculously restored after ten minutes of walking
A new study calls out to everyone, the young and the old, to take more walks throughout the day to maintain vascular strength. In a society of conveniences, even the healthiest are guilty of taking their vascular system for granted. For those whose work is behind a computer day after day, this study is even more important. The study, from the University of Missouri (MU) School of Medicine, finds a shocking correlation between prolonged sitting and a deteriorating vascular system. When a person sits for six straight hours during the day, vascular elasticity declines drastically. However, when a person breaks up these long periods of sitting with 10 minute walking breaks, vascular health is replenished and kept strong.
"It's easy for all of us to be consumed by work and lose track of time, subjecting ourselves to prolonged periods of inactivity," said lead author Jaume Padilla, Ph.D., an assistant professor of nutrition and exercise physiology at the MU School of Medicine. "However, our study found that when you sit for six straight hours, or the majority of an eight-hour work day, blood flow to your legs is greatly reduced. We also found that just 10 minutes of walking after sitting for an extended time reversed the detrimental consequences."
The study, which examined in detail the vascular functions of 11 healthy young men, found that blood flow in an artery in the lower legs (the popliteal) slows tremendously after six hours of constant sitting, making it harder for the artery to dilate and respond to stimuli. The blood flow was immediately improved after the participants walked for ten minutes.
"When you have decreased blood flow, the friction of the flowing blood on the artery wall, called shear stress, is also reduced," Padilla said. "Moderate levels of shear stress are good for arterial health, whereas low levels of shear stress appear to be detrimental and reduce the ability of the artery to dilate. Dilation is a sign of vascular health. The more the artery can dilate and respond to stimuli, the healthier it is."
Padilla summarized the findings, "Studies have shown that sitting less can lead to better metabolic and cardiovascular health. However, more research is needed to determine if repeated periods of reduced vascular function with prolonged sitting lead to long-term vascular complications.
Sometimes, the cure is as simple as getting up and taking a walk and remembering how blessed we really are, with the ability to move and interact. We should always remember that when the gifts we are given are taken for granted, they might just gradually deteriorate and waste away...
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The Activity Of Walking Now Called The 'Superfood' Of Fitness
by Julie Wilson staff writer
(NaturalNews) Physically pushing your body to its limit for even just a few minutes each week is one of the healthiest habitats you can practice when it comes to your exercise routine. High-intensity interval training (HIIT), or vigorous exercise performed in short bouts of time followed by brief periods of rest, is the most effective way to burn fat and boost your overall health, according to emerging research.
However, despite the widely understood health benefits of HIIT, Katy Bowman, a biomechanist based in Ventura, Calif., insists that walking is the new "superfood," adding that one hour of intense exercise at the gym isn't enough to offset the consequences of sitting for 10 hours.
Bowman, who authored the book Move Your DNA: Restore Your Health Through Natural Movement, says walking is just as imperative as eating. She suggests there are movement nutrients similar to dietary nutrients.
"Walking is a superfood. It's the defining movement of a human," said Bowman. "It's a lot easier to get movement than it is to get exercise."
But is performing natural movements throughout the day really enough? A growing body of research says absolutely not.
Walking may be the "defining movement of a human," but is it enough exercise to keep us healthy?
Compared with conventional aerobics and low-intensity exercise such as walking, high-intensity interval training releases the human growth hormone, or the "fitness hormone," which scientists say is crucial for maintaining strength, health and longevity.
When healthy but inactive people exercised intensely, even for just a few minutes, the DNA molecules within their muscles undergo important chemical and structural changes, according to a 2012 study published in The Journal of Physiology.
High-intensity interval training genetically reprograms muscles for strength and positively affects genes responsible for burning fat, the study found. But weight loss isn't the only benefit. Researchers found that HIIT leaves you feeling more energetic, improves your overall athletic performance (including increasing your speed), firms your skin (less wrinkles), boosts your sex drive and improves muscle tone.
High-intensity interval training is even beneficial for those with serious health problems; in fact, The New York Times reports that HIIT is being studied as a potential treatment that may be more effective than medication for people with chronic ailments.
For patients suffering from heart disease, stroke, diabetes, pulmonary disease, arthritis and Parkinson's disease, HIIT is extremely advantageous, as it may prevent or even reverse the damage caused by such ailments.
Scientist: "You can't offset 10 hours of stillness with one hour of exercise." Or can you?
"Actively sedentary is a new category of people who are fit for one hour but sitting around the rest of the day," Bowman said. "You can't offset 10 hours of stillness with one hour of exercise."
Other scientists would disagree.
Not only do you reap the benefits of HIIT well after your workout is over, but your body is able to increase its ability to use oxygen and insulin. It also opens up your arteries, making them more elastic as oxygen-carrying blood flows more smoothly, reducing the risk of a vessel-blocking clot.
"Too many people think incorrectly that high-intensity exercise is only for athletes, that it's a heart attack waiting to happen," said Dr. Jonathan P. Little, a specialist in exercise physiology at the University of British Columbia at Okanagan.
Instead, research suggests that HIIT is more likely to reduce the risk of a heart attack, as well provide remarkable benefits for those suffering from diabetes.
"We've seen, for example, that interval training is remarkably effective at lowering glucose levels in people with diabetes," said Little. "Just one session improves a person's glucose level."
Additional sources:
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com
http://news.yahoo.com
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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