Healthy Living

Walk each day and keep the doctor away! Walking isn’t just for losing weight, it’s healthy living. Many of our health problems today are caused from a lack of movement, everything we do in our day to day lives is usually done from the sitting position.

Walking exercises two main organs, the lungs and heart. The lung controls the pores and large intestine, when we walk the pores will open and release moisture. If we do not allow our body to release moisture by sweating this can lead to arthritis and other health problems. If you notice that the pore is not opening to release the sweat and your pace is good, this is an indication that there is a problem. Since the lung controls the large intestine, when we walk we are preventing constipation. The heart controls the vessels and sweat. When the heart is exercised it will burn cholesterol off the walls of our veins.

Excessive sitting causes bad circulation in the legs which produces spider and veracious veins and can produce blood clots.

There are a few things to remember when you exercise:
Make sure you are walking at a pace that makes you sweat, but not excessively. Your clothes should not be completely soaked with sweat and you should not be out of breath.
Do not allow cool air to blow on you during or after exercising. Cool air makes the pores close, you do not want to trap the sweat under the skin.
When you finish exercising, you should feel good, not tired or exhausted. Be sure not to overdue it. Health problems are caused by not doing enough or doing too much. 30 minutes 5 days a week is all that is needed to be healthy.