10 Reasons to walk
Walking gives you more energy and enthusiasm.
Walking can help you live longer and can protect you from heart disease, diabetes, cancer, osteoporosis and much more.
Walking boosts your brain power, making you mentally sharper, refocuses your mind and improves your concentration.
Walking can activate the happy hormone which makes you feel good, improves your mood and reduces stress.
Walking can help prevent gaining weight, it also helps you to lose weight. You will build healthy lean muscle, lose inches of fat and pump up your metabolism.
Walking need not require any special equipment, does not produce any additional polluting waste and the only fuel you'll need is a healthy meal.
People in cars suffer three times as much pollution as pedestrians as they are sitting in the line of exhaust fumes from the car in front.
Walking one mile in fifteen minutes burns about the same about of calories as running a mile in 8.5 minutes.
Doing 10,000 steps per day will contribute to the recommendation of moderate-intensity physical activity for at least 30 minutes on 5 or more days of the week.
You can start slowly, build up gradually and do it anywhere and at any time.
(Source: Darlington Walking Map)