Walking is an essential part of our everyday, there are a lot of studies have shown that walking speed will also affect the length of life expectancy, said walk decided life may have a lot of people don’t believe that, however, do have a 14-year study to prove it, the study demonstrated that long life people tend to have a walk in common.
Long life, walk tend to have a common – fast
In a 14-year study of 30,000 people over the age of 65, experts showed that the faster people walked, the longer they lived, all other factors being equal.
The researchers found that the average person would walk at a speed of 0.9 meters per second, while walking below 0.6 meters per second was associated with shorter life spans. Therefore, for us, fast walking can better achieve the goal of health and longevity. And brisk walking can not only increase people’s life expectancy, but also prevent some cardiovascular diseases.
What are the benefits of brisk walking to your blood vessels?
- Stabilize blood pressure
Many authorities believe that walking is the best way to exercise, and fast walking can promote physical health, when fast walking the body fat consumption will be accelerated, can play a role in the control of weight, and will not like running to increase the heart rate too fast, more conducive to the stability of the heart rate.
According to the World Health Organization, when people lose 5kg of weight, their blood pressure will decrease by 2-10 points. Therefore, brisk walking can prevent blood pressure to a certain extent.
- Promote blood circulation and increase blood vessel elasticity
When people are walking or movement of the blood circulation will be accelerated, the research thinks, when people quickly every step when can promote 50% of blood flowing in the body, and when the blood circulation to speed up, also help to squeeze the blood vessels, is arguably the most simple “gymnastics” vessels, helps to keep blood vessels more elastic.
Cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases are now the first cause of death of all kinds of diseases, so for the elderly, exercise is very necessary.
Walking is good, but also emphasize the movement did it can better protect blood vessels, promote longevity
- Keep walking
Now many people exercise is three minutes heat, can not stick to it, but we need to remember that exercise must adhere to, exercise every day the best is to be able to maintain more than 30 minutes, and the best is to stick to it every day, really not to reach 5 times a week exercise. Studies in the United States have shown that exercising for more than seven hours a week can reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease by 30%.
- Keep the amount you walk under control
Studies have shown that the best way to reach more than 7,500 steps per day is to increase the number of steps per day by 1,000, and the death rate of people will be reduced by about 15%, until the number of steps reached 7,500 basically stable.
- Walk correctly
The walking posture is very important for us. If the posture is wrong, it will cause serious damage to the joints. When walking, the head should be square, the eyes should be straight in front, the chest should be raised, the torso should be naturally straight, the elbows should be bent about 90 degrees, and the arms should be swung back and forth.
After 45 years old, want to protect blood vessels, increase longevity, insist on three things, or more important than sports
- Drink 6 glasses of water a day
Drinking water is the most simple way of keeping in good health, but now many people are used to drink when thirsty, in fact, when people feel thirsty, the body is often is in a state of extreme lack of water, so both our thirst thirst not usual to ensure the water quantity, the best is can meet the requirements of the dietary guidelines for Chinese people, around 1500-1700 ml.
- Eat a balanced diet
Nowadays, vegetarianism is widely on the rise. In fact, vegetarianism alone cannot play a very good role in people’s body. Balanced diet is the most important thing.
- Adjust your schedule
Staying up late has become a habit of many people, and after the age of 45, no matter for whatever reason, we should not continue to stay up late, because people’s blood vessels are in the state of constriction when staying up late, which may affect the elasticity of blood vessels after a long time.
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