Successful people tend to pay more attention to small places, and also pay attention to small places in health care. "Walking is the best tonic for human beings." This is a motto of Hippocrates, the originator of western medicine. 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.
Long-term walking for health preservation has many benefits to people's health. The benefits of walking for health preservation are: 1. 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%. 3. Prevention of diabetes 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%. 4. The process of preventing venous thrombosis of lower limbs by walking is the contraction and relaxation of muscles of both lower limbs, which, like a liquid pump, makes blood flow back to the heart from the distal extremity, and the ankles are fully active to avoid venous thrombosis of lower limbs. 5. 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 long-term desk, and has obvious effects on the prevention and treatment of cervical spondylosis. 6. It's 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.
To sum up, it is precisely because walking can reduce the occurrence of some diseases and reduce the distortion of our spine. Walking regimen has become popular all over the world. It is suggested that people who don't like strenuous exercise can walk more in their daily life, which can bring the same effect as exercise, and it doesn't need to spend money and other aspects. This is a green and environmentally friendly way of keeping in good health.