CBS News Healthwatch - Move

Question 1

How much could a short, brisk daily walk lower your health risks?

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/exercise-health-benefits-news-walk-11-minutes-daily-lower-risk-stroke-heart-disease-cancer/

Answer 1

• Walking just 11 minutes per day could lower risk of stroke, heart disease and some cancers significantly
• They found that 75 minutes of moderate activity a week lowered the risk of early death overall by 23%
• reducing your risk of cancer even if you can only manage 10 minutes every day
• Britain’s National Health Service recommends that people get at least 150 minutes of moderate exercise a week
• this level of exercise could prevent 1 in 6 early deaths, but getting more than that only delivered marginal benefits
• 75 minutes of moderate exercise a week, or an 11 minute brisk walk per day, was found to reduce the risk of developing cancer by 7% and heart disease by 17%.
• For head and neck cancer, myeloma, myeloid leukaemia, myeloma and gastric cardia cancers, the decrease in risk was between 14% and 26%. For other cancers, like breast or colon cancer, the reduction in risk with moderate exercise was lower, at 3-11%.

Question 2

How to “hot girl walk”: The trend that combines physical. mental health

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hot-girl-walk-viral-fitness-trend-explained-tips/

Answer 2

four-mile outdoor mindfulness walk during which you’re supposed to think of three things:

What you’re grateful for
Your goals
And how you’re going to achieve them

Question 3

Sitting a lot? Here’s why you should break it up with short walks.