The Miracle Cure-All (Or Step-By-Step To Health)
You know all there is to know already.
You discovered how to achieve it as a toddler, after trial and error, and for most of us, it has stuck in our memory and muscles.
It's as easy as 1-2-1-2, except of course, when you must work around little aches and pains, maybe a bad knee or hip, or worse, one leg that has a mind of its own.
Why, you remember don't you, years ago, it made man the superior and the more advanced of all animals.
What's the big deal about it? What's hard - put one foot in front of the other.
That's not really a miracle of divine proportions.
It's really a down-to-earth activity that even you can do ...
and should do more of.
There are a variety of styles of this cure-all: ambling, strolling, strutting, shuffling, swaggering, skipping, speeding, pacing, marching, hiking, and more.
Yes, you guessed it.
So put on a pair of old shoes, hang the car keys in the closet next to your snack pack pudding, and start ...
walking ...
step-by-step to health.
You don't have to be one of those suckers (that is, other people, certainly not you) who spend $4.
9 billion on exercise equipment.
Be one of those 17% who are actually exercising today.
You can go as far and as fast as you want ...
around the block once or twice, around the neighbor hood, down one of the gazillion walking trails people plow through cities, or go downtown and do some speed-walk window shopping.
You know what? Some people, on rainy days, speed walk around the mall before the glittering goods galleries open.
Check it out.
So what does this cure-all cure or how does it help us? Read any magazine in the doctor's office as you wait to have your weight checked.
There are tons of inks spread across Paul Bunyan's paper products describing and analyzing its benefits.
It controls: that weight; blood pressure; heart problems; muscle tone; diabetes; lung capacity; metabolism; breast cancer; colon cancer; and even pot-belly-obia and fat-hips-itus.
So, how to start? Well, the most obvious and deeply profound answer is, "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step," said Confucius.
That's a bit too far for your first stab at it.
But a shallower answer is to find a reason, a goal, a justification, a driving inner force (such as a walk to the nearest Espresso Shop for a caffeine boost), or a walking partner ...
even your dog will do, but not the cat because soon walking will become chasing.
Pretend you're going to the nearest fast-food-factory, but you're not going in ...
and don't.
Head for the strip-mall drugstore to get those aspirins you're going to need at the end of the journey.
There are million reasons to walk and only a couple not to: laziness and procrastination.
And the easy part, you can do it at your convenience: Instead of lunch, before breakfast, after dinner, during Oprah if you don't like the guest, or just after an argument for therapy as well as exercise.
Did you know walking at a moderate pace for 30-60 minutes burns stored fat and can build muscle to speed up your metabolism.
Walking an hour a day is also associated with cutting your risk of the multitude of health-threatening conditions listed above.
Isn't it time to work 1-hour walks into your busy lifestyle? There are a few little things that can be considered to augment the benefits and make the walk easier.
Walk with weights (even two cans of soup will do) in your hands or on the ankles (not the soup).
Get a pedometer.
It senses your body motion and counts your footsteps.
This count is converted into distance by knowing the length of your usual stride.
Wearing a pedometer and recording your daily steps and distance is a great motivating tool.
Keeping a daily step-count log may sound stupid, but it provides you with a visual target and bragging-right proof that you are doing what you say.
Did you ever think about making those cell-phone calls to friends while you are walking, and not while driving? Think of the lives you'll save ...
besides your own.
There you have it.
The most advanced animal on the planet must go back thousands of years and restore the forgotten, but the easiest, cure-all miracle.
You discovered how to achieve it as a toddler, after trial and error, and for most of us, it has stuck in our memory and muscles.
It's as easy as 1-2-1-2, except of course, when you must work around little aches and pains, maybe a bad knee or hip, or worse, one leg that has a mind of its own.
Why, you remember don't you, years ago, it made man the superior and the more advanced of all animals.
What's the big deal about it? What's hard - put one foot in front of the other.
That's not really a miracle of divine proportions.
It's really a down-to-earth activity that even you can do ...
and should do more of.
There are a variety of styles of this cure-all: ambling, strolling, strutting, shuffling, swaggering, skipping, speeding, pacing, marching, hiking, and more.
Yes, you guessed it.
So put on a pair of old shoes, hang the car keys in the closet next to your snack pack pudding, and start ...
walking ...
step-by-step to health.
You don't have to be one of those suckers (that is, other people, certainly not you) who spend $4.
9 billion on exercise equipment.
Be one of those 17% who are actually exercising today.
You can go as far and as fast as you want ...
around the block once or twice, around the neighbor hood, down one of the gazillion walking trails people plow through cities, or go downtown and do some speed-walk window shopping.
You know what? Some people, on rainy days, speed walk around the mall before the glittering goods galleries open.
Check it out.
So what does this cure-all cure or how does it help us? Read any magazine in the doctor's office as you wait to have your weight checked.
There are tons of inks spread across Paul Bunyan's paper products describing and analyzing its benefits.
It controls: that weight; blood pressure; heart problems; muscle tone; diabetes; lung capacity; metabolism; breast cancer; colon cancer; and even pot-belly-obia and fat-hips-itus.
So, how to start? Well, the most obvious and deeply profound answer is, "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step," said Confucius.
That's a bit too far for your first stab at it.
But a shallower answer is to find a reason, a goal, a justification, a driving inner force (such as a walk to the nearest Espresso Shop for a caffeine boost), or a walking partner ...
even your dog will do, but not the cat because soon walking will become chasing.
Pretend you're going to the nearest fast-food-factory, but you're not going in ...
and don't.
Head for the strip-mall drugstore to get those aspirins you're going to need at the end of the journey.
There are million reasons to walk and only a couple not to: laziness and procrastination.
And the easy part, you can do it at your convenience: Instead of lunch, before breakfast, after dinner, during Oprah if you don't like the guest, or just after an argument for therapy as well as exercise.
Did you know walking at a moderate pace for 30-60 minutes burns stored fat and can build muscle to speed up your metabolism.
Walking an hour a day is also associated with cutting your risk of the multitude of health-threatening conditions listed above.
Isn't it time to work 1-hour walks into your busy lifestyle? There are a few little things that can be considered to augment the benefits and make the walk easier.
Walk with weights (even two cans of soup will do) in your hands or on the ankles (not the soup).
Get a pedometer.
It senses your body motion and counts your footsteps.
This count is converted into distance by knowing the length of your usual stride.
Wearing a pedometer and recording your daily steps and distance is a great motivating tool.
Keeping a daily step-count log may sound stupid, but it provides you with a visual target and bragging-right proof that you are doing what you say.
Did you ever think about making those cell-phone calls to friends while you are walking, and not while driving? Think of the lives you'll save ...
besides your own.
There you have it.
The most advanced animal on the planet must go back thousands of years and restore the forgotten, but the easiest, cure-all miracle.
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