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Chiwalking
Daily Steps to Focus,
Strengthen and Energize
E
arlier generations recognized the amazing effects that
walking has on health. G. M. Trevelyan, a noted English
historian, wrote in the 1920s: “I have two doctors. My
left leg and my right.”
In those days, science had not yet documented how the
traditional evening stroll exercises the heart, calms the mind
and benefits one’s overall constitution. But today’s research
shows that walking may be nothing short of a miracle cure.
A recent study reported in the journal Medicine &
Science in Sports & Exercise shows that adults in their 50s
and 60s who consistently walk are about 25 percent less
likely to die in the next eight years than their sedentary coun-
terparts. The University of Michigan Medical Center study
further notes that, for smokers and others with high blood
pressure or diabetes, the risk of death drops 45 percent.
The myriad benefits of walking, as attested in studies
published in The New England Journal of Medicine, The
Journal of the American Medical Association and others, go
beyond increasing bone density and improving mental acuity
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