Walking not only improves your overall health, but greatly reduces the risk of stroke – especially in women. These findings are based on a study examining the exercise behaviors of more than 39,000 female health professionals, with an average age of 54. The results indicate that women who walked at a pace of 3 miles per hour had a 37% lower risk of suffering from a stroke, and women who engaged in walking 2 or more hours a week had a 30% reduced risk of suffering from a stroke.
Jacob R. Sattelmair, MSc, Harvard School of Public Health states: “Physical activity, including regular walking, is an important modifiable behavior for stroke prevention and is essential to promoting cardiovascular health and reducing risk of cardiovascular disease, and walking is one way of achieving physical activity.”
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