Can walking reduce the risk of needing medicine?

A bit of a rhetorical question, you probably already know the answer.

But I want to talk about that a little bit more because it's not an insignificant benefit of consistently walking.

Hi, I'm Dave, welcome to walking as fitness, a daily 10-minute podcast that provides a little

added motivation for you to get out the door and take the walk, especially on those days

when you don't feel like it. And I hope that's not today, but even if it is, we'll get started

with today's 10-minute walk after this.

I am actually starting today's 10-minute walk in the middle of the road.

Gratefully, it's a road that is not highly traveled. In fact, I am walking, I'm doing circles in the

middle of an intersection. And I've got four options here. I could go that way, and I've

got a sidewalk, and probably about a mile before it hits a traffic light.

I could go that way and it's maybe a tenth of a mile and it's the backside of the airport.

It's probably the more interesting way.

I could go this way and it's probably the more the most boring of the four options basically I

reach a fence don't have much to see you turn around and come back maybe a tenth of a

mile or I could go this way option number four and this is probably two-tenths of a mile and then I would have to choose to go left or right and the wooded trail where I like to walk is actually down this way which would you choose

tell you what I'm going to take the boring way

because I almost never walk down this road because it's boring.

So this is the way it's maybe a tenth of a mile and I'll reach a fence.

And this is not the backside of the airport it's just a big big feel I can see

the airport from here but it's not as interesting and there's a business that is at

the end of this tenth of a mile road I don't know what they do here. So the benefits of walking are pretty tremendous.

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