A couple of things I wanted to share with you today. I heard this on the radio as I was driving to work last night and I checked it out when I got home. Apparently, the faster you walk the longer you live... a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) which involved data from 9 other studies and 34,000 seniors found that people who walked faster tended to live longer. Some of the studies have been going on for 20+ years. So, I'm going to keep on walking, and I would suggest to others to start walking and build up your speed before it's too late.
Walking is an exercise anyone can do, just about anywhere and anytime, it's simple and easy and it doesn't require any fancy expensive equipment other than clothes and comfortable footwear. Actually, that is how my fitness quest started, with walking... then I went to bicycling and I threw in some weight training. I still walk, I'm waiting for dry roads and kinder weather to ride and I'm weight training 6 days a week... but it was the results that I first got from walking that motivated me to continue on my fitness journey and also motivated me to do more and try different things.
And the other thing was a poll of over 1200 people by Consumers Reports that found that 90% of Americans think their diet is a healthy one, but when questioned further, their "healthy" eating habits became questionable. 43% admitted to drinking sodas, coffee and tea with sugar on a daily basis.
A third claimed they were at a healthy weight when in actuality they were either overweight or obese according to their BMI (Body Mass Index).
Only 11% (from this poll) think of themselves as overweight, but government stats say 68% are overweight. Are we that far removed from reality? Are the majority of Americans in denial? or did Consumer Reports just happen upon a healthy portion of the populace? Hmmm, Food for Thought... Healthy food, that is
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