WALKING

Isn't An Instant High

Sorry You Also Need To Eat Healthy Foods Too

Walking every day has been documented as a way to stay youthful in vitality and looks. Regular daily walking has been found to trigger an anti-aging process and help repair old DNA. If you think about it, humans have been walking everywhere for millions of years and suddenly we don't have too. Our body is saying, "What Is Going On?" and starts falling apart from lack of use.

Studies have shown, which are linked below at the end of this article, those who walk daily look 3 to 7 years younger. People say I look like I am 47 instead of 57, but I also eat well and have a good attitude through meditation, which disciplines the mind. So I may feel awful, I have fibromyligia but I still go for my walk instead of saying, "screw it, I give up."

Walking 20 minutes or more every day has shown to be the minimum for health benefits. I hurt my back and lost the use of my right leg due to nerve damage and limped my way back to health. I know pain and how far I can push myself so be careful if you have an injury or are suffering from chronic health conditions.

The human body has used walking as a way to maintain and clean itself. Walking in the past was not thought of as an exercise, it was a way of life, just like eating and sleeping.

Walking Helps You Get Out In The Sun

You need sun exposure to manufacture vitamin D I call it the sunshine vitamin. Walking burns the same amount of calories as running. I have problems running because I am an older woman with back injuries. I suffer from a chronic immune illness called fibromyligia, which causes the body to attack itself. My joints and muscles hurt all the time if I don't watch my diet and I don't exercise. Walking helps relieve the pain and the sunshine helps my body reduce inflammation through manufacturing vitamin D.

Walking Helps The Body Clean Itself

The lymphatic system is a network of glands that are positioned throughout the body over our muscular structure. The system looks like a climbing vine with little lymph glands positioned at key points throughout the body. As our muscles contract and expand with the movement of our muscles pump a fluid called lymph throughout our body that brings nutrients and white blood cells which protect the body and also collects debris from our body flushing it out through our kidneys. If you want to keep this key system healthy you must eat whole foods in moderation, exercise and give it a rest once in awhile by fasting.

I Can't Eat For 16 Hours?

Yeah I said fasting, but you don't have to go off food for days, you can limit your food intake to a 6-8 hour window. When you eat is important, I have read it is very important to go to bed on an empty stomach to give your digestive system a chance to do it's job and rest. Human's didn't evolve with food sources available 24/7, heck even cows take a rest from eating during the evening to chew their cud. I eat anywhere from 9am to 10:30am and take my last meal, usually a small one around 4-5pm. I was totally surprised how well I felt within a month. Not only did my inflammation issues decrease but I slept better and had more energy through the day. Fasting kicks the body into several processes that are something like maintenance mode and also burn fat instead of carbohydrates. If you are interested in this processes I will leave technical notes at the bottom of this article.

Humans Didn't Evolve With Unlimited Amounts Of Sugar Or Highly Processed Foods

This is just common sense. Food is fuel for your body and secondarily it is also for pleasure, and surprise it can also be used as medicine. For millions of years we ate what our environment could provide and nowhere in our history have we evolved to eat pesticides, herbicides, food addictive, 100s of man made chemicals in our foods that have all their nutritive value taken out for long term storage. That is right, our food has been manipulated for profit not for health. A good way to fight back is eat whole foods that are high in nutritional value. Also our bodies are struggling to remove 1000s of man made chemicals dumped in our environment. So help your body out, eat healthy foods, do a little walking, and don't eat so much all the time! You will be helping take care of yourself, your community and your pocketbook.

The search for anti-aging interventions: From elixirs to fasting regimens, Rafael de Cabo, Didac Carmona-Gutierrez, Michel Bernier, Michael N. Hall, and Frank Madeo

Walking, Your Steps To Your Health, Harvard.

Lymphatic System

Red Dust's Morning Walks Towards Health

The Best Ways To Clean Your Lymphatic System.

Vitamin D Is a Powerful Anti-Inflammatory

You can't exercise your way out of a bad diet by Dr. Hyman

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