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Walking can make the brain younger. What diseases can long-term walking treat?
Indeed, walking is also a way of fitness; It is good to walk more. Chinese medicine believes that when people walk, the seven meridians and eight veins all move together. Walking can move joints, relax muscles, promote blood circulation, promote metabolism, calm the nervous system, exercise leg muscles, abdominal muscles and cardiac muscles, exercise cerebral cortex, make brain cells more active and prevent various diseases.

Walking is a good way to prevent diseases.

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Heart disease prevention

Walking exercise can prevent atherosclerosis. As early as the early 1920s, Dr. White, the founder of American Heart Association and a famous cardiologist, took the lead in proposing walking as a rehabilitation method for patients with heart disease and myocardial infarction.

2

Prevent brain atrophy

Research shows that walking at least 9.6 kilometers per week can not only increase the size of the brain, but also effectively prevent brain atrophy and Alzheimer's disease, and reduce the probability of memory problems by 50%.

three

Prevent diabetes

Actually, it is not difficult to control diabetes. If you can persist for 3 days a week and walk 3 kilometers every 30 minutes, the incidence of diabetes can be reduced by 25%. Sticking to 4 days a week can reduce 33%; Five days a week can be reduced by 42%.

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Prevention of venous thrombosis of lower limbs

The process of walking is the contraction and relaxation of the muscles of both lower limbs. Like a liquid pump, the blood flows back from the distal limb to the heart, and the ankles are fully active to avoid venous thrombosis of lower limbs.

five

Reduce cervical spondylosis

Walking with your head held high, your neck stretched back, and your shoulder and back muscles moved, which is helpful to relieve the fatigue of your neck, shoulders and back muscles, ligaments and joints caused by sitting at your desk for a long time, and has obvious effects on the prevention and treatment of cervical spondylosis.

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Good for the stomach

Walking increases the respiratory ability of the lungs, enhances lung function, promotes gastrointestinal peristalsis, enhances the ability to digest food and absorb nutrients, and improves immunity.

Walking revolution

As people pay more and more attention to health problems, they pay more attention to sports. Among many physical exercises, walking, as a people-friendly exercise with no threshold and no equipment, has been favored by more and more people. Many people walk for exercise and fitness, and some are to lose weight and shape.

At present, there is a walking revolution going on in the world. In many countries, in the 2 1 century, people have regarded walking as a magic weapon for human beings to obtain health, longevity and happiness. Although the specific methods are different, more and more people begin to walk briskly, and the walking movement is more and more deeply rooted in people's hearts.