What numbers does your doctor have? It is YOUR DOCTOR'S RESPONSIBILITY to get you recovered enough to do any amount of walking.
Other walking prevention items:
My numbers for steps.
10,000 Steps A Day? How Many You Really Need To Boost Longevity - 4,400
This one suggests 8900 steps a day:
Can Exercise Protect Against Alzheimer's?
Exactly How Many Steps You Need to Take a Day to Not Gain Weight - 15,000
Every 2,000 steps a day could help keep premature death at bay
The latest here:
People who do this one thing every day have half the dementia risk that the rest of us do This one is 9800 steps
The latest here:
How Far Should You Walk to Improve Your Health? You Won’t Like the Answer.
Walking 10,000 steps a day is one of those mysteriously decided good things we should all do, much like drinking eight glasses of water a day. I read it comes from a Japanese marketing campaign in the 1960s.
I’d like to report the number of steps needed for full benefit was fewer, but a fair amount of research has since been done on the subject, and it found that walking 10,000 steps a day is great for your health.
Evan Brittain, a cardiologist and associate professor at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Tennessee, co-wrote an October 2022 study published in Nature Medicine journal that measured how much exercise people actually got using Fitbit fitness trackers during a median of four years.
The study looked for associations between step count and disease. “We looked across every human disease that showed up in unbiased analysis,” Brittain says. “We homed in on six strongly: obesity, hypertension, diabetes, esophageal reflux, sleep apnea and depression.”
The study found the biggest protections against most diseases among those who walked close to 10,000 steps a day. For example, the research found that increasing your step count to 10,000 from 6,000 reduces the incidence of diabetes by 56%.
Why is walking—or any form of exercise, really—so good for us? A few reasons, says cardiologist Chad Raymond, director of cardiac rehabilitation at University Hospitals Harrington Heart and Vascular Institute in Ohio. For starters, those same endorphins that make you feel great after exercising also open up your blood vessels and help create new blood vessels.
“Regular exercise reduces blood pressure five to eight points, often what most blood pressure medicines do,” he says.
Exercise also improves the ability of skeletal muscles ability to extract oxygen from the blood, Raymond adds. And it helps improve lung function, which in turn helps the heart.
Stop the presses: Being a couch potato isn’t good for you. So put on those comfortable shoes and go for a walk.
Write to Neal Templin at neal.templin@barrons.com
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