No matter what your age is or what size you are, help celebrate Global Running Day by getting outside and enjoying the day. It's great for Body and Soul.
If like me, you don't enjoy running, try a 'Brisk Walk'. Here are some interesting facts:-
1. Brisk walking helps reduce body fat, lower blood pressure, and increase high-density lipoprotein.
2. The longest walk around the world was completed by a former neon-sign salesman, Jean Beliveau. He walked 46,600 miles around 64 countries. The trip took him 11 years.
3. Given that the world is about 25,000 miles in circumference and that the average walking rate is 3 miles per hour, it would take a person walking nonstop approximately 347 days to walk around the world.
4. Fire walking, or the act of walking over hot stones or embers with bare feet, is a religious ceremony practiced in several parts of the world, including the Indian subcontinent, China, Fiji Islands, and New Zealand. It was also practiced in ancient Greece and India. Fire walking is said to help guarantee a good harvest or purify the participants.
5. Experts suggest walking 6,000 steps a day to improve health and 10,000 steps a day to lose weight.
6. Researchers note that walking has become a casualty of modern life. With the loss of walking as a cultural activity, there is a loss of an ancient and profound relationship with the body, world, and imagination.
7. A 2000 study reported that walking regularly (three times or more a week for half an hour or more) saves $330 a year in health care costs.
8. A 20-minute walk, or about 2,000 steps, equal a mile.
Why not?
Article Source- Karin Lehnardt, Fact Retriever.
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