benefit to heart disease and stroke
2007-02-07 12:19:26 · 3 answers · asked by sunflower84 1 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Heart Diseases
Walking burns calories reduces weight. This lowers your risk for hypertension and diabetes, which therefore lowers your risk for heart disease.
It keeps the circulation good, preventing blood clots that can lead to deadly heart attack, pulmonary embolism, or stroke. It strengthens the heart, which allows the heart to beat more strongly and slowly. The heart is like any other muscle; one good, strong beat every second tires it less than two crappy weak beats every second. If the heart beats more slowly, then its demand for oxygen is less. A heart attack is caused when a section of the heart doesn't get enough oxygen.
Walking will also help increase the volume of air that you can breathe at once. This delivers oxygen to your whole body better. If the blood can deliver oxygen more efficiently, then the heart can beat more slowly (again with lowering the heart rate!). If you keep the legs moving, it improves blood return to the heart from the lower extremities. That blood can then be re-oxygenated and returned to the toes to deliver more oxygen to keep all the tissues alive and healthy.
Walking is awesome exercise with excellent benefits! You will have to walk a longer period of time than if you jogged, but not everybody can tolerate jogging or other vigorous exercise. Walking burns just as many calories as jogging or running the same distance, it just takes you longer to do it.
Any form of exercise (espescially in the fresh air!) also makes you release feel-good chemicals in your brain. So you feel better and happier, and your stress levels decrease. This is also good for keeping blood pressure down.
There are so many other benefits to exercise that I can't go into right here! I've tried to keep my answer focused on cardiovascular disease and stroke, but I've only begun to apply the diamond that could scratch the surface of this topic.
2007-02-07 13:53:38 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Walking burns calories so it will help you lose weight. losing weight will take stress off your heart and lower bp and cholesterol
It also will get you out in the fresh air. Walking is not as hard on your knees as running
2007-02-07 12:27:26 · answer #2 · answered by fortyninertu 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no. walking blows. jog.
2007-02-07 12:26:22 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋