Voltaire insisted on walking all his life and went out for a walk in his hospital in the morning and evening of his later years. Throughout the ages, many great men and scholars, such as Aristotle, Goethe, Mao Zedong, Ma Yinchu and so on. Take a walk to exercise and adjust your spirit. Most birthday girls have the habit of taking a long walk.
"Take 300 steps after meals without going to the pharmacy", "Take 100 steps after meals without a doctor" and "Take 100 steps after meals and live to 99". These proverbs all praise and describe the function of walking. Taking a walk after dinner doesn't mean you can't go at other times. You can take a walk after getting up in the morning, after work and before going to bed, which is good for your health.
Walking after meals is conducive to enhancing gastrointestinal peristalsis and gastric juice secretion, shortening the time for food to enter the small intestine, promoting the digestion and absorption of food by the body, preventing gastrointestinal dysfunction in the elderly, which is really beneficial to people's health.
China's traditional body-building technique "meditation seeking source" also calls this kind of exercise "walking after meals", saying that this method "increases or decreases the number of walks at will to stabilize and slow down the behavior" and has the functions of "hydrating water, smoothing qi and regulating bones and muscles and blood".
As the saying goes, "lying down with a full stomach won't make you grow four ounces." It shows that eating without exercise is easy to make people fat, and being too fat will become a hotbed of many diseases.
But after-dinner activities should not be too intense. Doing so will make a lot of blood flow to the muscles of limbs, reduce the blood in abdominal organs, reduce the secretion of gastric juice and pancreatic juice, reduce the digestion and absorption function of small intestine, and make people feel abdominal distension and even severe pain in the right lower abdomen.
There are many benefits of walking: walking is a gentle and relaxing fitness exercise.
When walking, your feet move alternately, which can exercise your bones and muscles and strengthen your legs and feet. The smoothness of blood gas in the foot is related to the smoothness of the whole body blood, so that the five internal organs can be better nourished by blood. By stretching and stretching leg muscles rhythmically, it can promote blood circulation, improve heart function and strengthen metabolism. Conducive to the prevention and treatment of hypertension and coronary heart disease, but also improve digestion and respiratory function.
Walking is an activity to express one's feelings.
Walking on an outdoor country road, or walking on Lin Yin Avenue in the city, the vast space, fresh air and green environment will make people feel refreshed and relaxed. Walking after intense mental work can eliminate brain fatigue and tension. Harmonious breathing and carefree expression when walking can make people receive the effect of nourishing the heart and calming the nerves in a slow dynamic, and can also strengthen the brain and improve intelligence and help sleep.
Walking is a simple and easy medical method, and it is also a feasible whole-body health care exercise for everyone.
Not only the muscles of the whole body are exercised, but also the bones are well exercised; It can enhance myocardial contractility, expand peripheral blood vessels and relieve vasospasm. It is a kind of slow physical exercise to strengthen physique and nourish. Especially for people who are old and sick, have heart disease and are not suitable for large-scale exercise, it is a good way to overcome diseases and enhance physical fitness. Walking also helps to defecate and improve constipation caused by gastrointestinal dysfunction. Walking has a good auxiliary therapeutic effect on people with myocardial dystrophy, organic heart disease, hypertension, obesity and so on.