LAMPS 5K RACE

REASONS TO WALK

• Walking One mile a day burns 100 calories.You can lose 10 pounds in a year without changing your eating habits.
  
• The Journal of the American medical Association found that women who walk in their 30s and 40s can greatly reduce the risk of breast cancer.
• If you just add 2000 more steps a day to your regular diet, you may never gain another pound. So says researcher by Dr. James O. Hill of the center of human nutrition at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center.
• A recent Harvard study shows that walking out of moderate pace for up to three hours a week or 30 minutes today can cut the heart disease in women by as much as 40%.
• Walking increases the blood flow to the brain.
• The Duke University Medical Center sound that a brisk 30 minute walk or jog around the track three times a week is just as effective as a antidepressant medication and relieving the symptoms of major depression and middle aged in elderly people.
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