You might have taken an offence when you were told to ‘take a hike!’ but now all the doctors are asking their patients to take a hike! Quite literally, and charging you for the same.

Walking, traveling by foot is what humans were made to do. However, with the mammoth number of vehicles on the road and the fast paced life this method of transport is rarely followed and that’s wrong for the benefits of walking are numerous

Here are a few benefits that we are presenting below:

Health Benefits

Walking is a very good form of cardiovascular conditioning that decreases the risk of coronary diseases;
Helps relieve lumbago and nothing like fresh air to pep you up; increases your general body strength and promotes wellbeing; conditions your cardiac muscles; increases your immunity and is good for hypertensive people; walking is the best and the easiest form of exercise if you want to stay fit and prevent yourself from getting fat; also it improves the density of bones an aids in cartilage nourishment. It keeps you active and maintains muscle strength to prevent falls and aids in keeping fit and having a positive attitude towards life no matter what your age.

Socio economic Benefits

Other than the health benefits walking is also beneficial for socio-economic reasons it not only saves you money when you walk to some place to where you used to take cabs to, but it has a greater social aspect you get to meet people when you are walking they can observe you and vice versa the chances of human interaction are better than any, in a day and age when the life is becoming more and more robotic, it also gives you that fresh air which we so need to relieve stress and give us a feeling of relaxation.

Environmental Benefits

Walking is the most environmentally friendly form of transport.

The levels of pollutions alone in the US have reached skyrocketing limits with cars contributing 31% of total carbon dioxide, 81% of carbon monoxide, and 49% of nitrogen oxides and a total of 60% of all the pollution. Even though the pollution emission standards today are a thousand times better than when cars were invented still a lot remains to be done when it comes to creating a pollution free car. With the increasing number of vehicles on the roads and more being added the depletion of fuels is occurring at an alarming pace and something must be done to prevent this.

Transportation Benefits

Never have there been any traffic jams because of walking and hence the problem of jams can have an easy resolution if everyone walked to their offices. If only 1/10 of the population of the world adopted walking there will be no road congestions, also not to add if people were walking the chances of road traffic accidents will be nil, but since it is not practical to walk to everywhere one should make use of car pools and adopt the policy of walking to nearby places.

Lastly I’d like to conclude by saying that walking is good for you and under no circumstances should you stop it.