


Walking Shoe DP


Physiotherapist Leslie Alford from the United Kingdom's University of East Anglia reviewed 40 international research papers focusing on the impact of moderate exercise on health published during the past four years.

The review found that individuals engaging in daily moderate exercise (such as walking) could reduce the risk of 24 mental and physical health conditions including cancer, heart disease, dementia, stroke, type 2 diabetes, depression, and high blood pressure.

Walking, it was found, for at minimum of 30 minutes a day was associated with a reduction in cancer and walking 60 minutes a day decreased the risk of cancer a further 16 per cent.

The study also reported that men who are more active at work -not desk bound - have lower rates of prostate cancer.

This is further clinical evidence regarding the curative power of walking in restoring and maintaining health and the necessity to allow employees to move during the day. There are actually 58 diseases related to obesity alone, so we believe that this analysis has an even far greater positive health impact than reported.