{"id":9958,"date":"2025-05-23T14:56:58","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T14:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flushinghospital.org\/newsletter\/?p=9958"},"modified":"2025-05-23T14:56:58","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T14:56:58","slug":"health-benefits-of-walking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flushinghospital.org\/newsletter\/health-benefits-of-walking\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Benefits of Walking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/flushinghospital.org\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/GettyImages-2151931358.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9960 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/flushinghospital.org\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/GettyImages-2151931358-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/flushinghospital.org\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/GettyImages-2151931358-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/flushinghospital.org\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/GettyImages-2151931358-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/flushinghospital.org\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/GettyImages-2151931358-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/flushinghospital.org\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/GettyImages-2151931358-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/flushinghospital.org\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/GettyImages-2151931358-2048x1366.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/flushinghospital.org\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/GettyImages-2151931358-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Several types of exercise, such as swimming, weightlifting, and running, offer many health benefits. Walking also provides numerous benefits to our health, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Helps you maintain a healthy weight and lose body fat<\/li>\n<li>Helps prevent or manage various conditions, including heart disease, stroke, high blood pressure, cancer, and type 2 diabetes<\/li>\n<li>Helps improve cardiovascular fitness<\/li>\n<li>Helps strengthen bones and muscles<\/li>\n<li>Helps improve muscle endurance<\/li>\n<li>Helps increase energy levels<\/li>\n<li>Helps improve mood, cognition, memory, and sleep<\/li>\n<li>Helps improve balance and coordination<\/li>\n<li>Helps strengthen the immune system<\/li>\n<li>Helps reduce stress and tension<\/li>\n<li>Helps extend a person\u2019s lifespan<\/li>\n<li>Helps inspire creative thinking<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Walking is a versatile exercise for people of all ages and fitness levels. However, it is advised that you gradually work your way up to walking faster and walking a mile in a shorter amount of time. It can improve your heart health and increase your endurance while burning more calories.<\/p>\n<p>Be sure to warm up and cool down before walking to avoid injury.<\/p>\n<p>It is recommended that you consult your doctor before starting or adding new exercises to your routine. You can schedule an appointment with a doctor at Flushing Hospital\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/flushinghospital.org\/clinical-services\/ambulatory-care\/\">Ambulatory Care Center<\/a>\u00a0by calling (718) 670-5486.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"disclaimer\">All content of this newsletter is intended for general information purposes only and is not intended or implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment.  Please consult a medical professional before adopting any of the suggestions on this page.   You must never disregard professional medical advice or delay seeking medical treatment based upon any content of this newsletter.<strong>  PROMPTLY CONSULT YOUR PHYSICIAN OR CALL 911 IF YOU BELIEVE YOU HAVE A MEDICAL EMERGENCY.<\/strong> <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several types of exercise, such as swimming, weightlifting, and running, offer many health benefits. Walking also provides numerous benefits to our health, including: Helps you maintain a healthy weight and lose body fat Helps prevent or manage various conditions, including &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/flushinghospital.org\/newsletter\/health-benefits-of-walking\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1222,5,1,510,14,474,4],"tags":[406,170,2383],"class_list":["post-9958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cardiology","category-diabetes","category-general-health","category-health","category-lifestyle","category-mens-health","category-mental-health","category-womens-health","tag-mentalhealth","tag-walking","tag-health-benefits-of-walking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flushinghospital.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flushinghospital.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flushinghospital.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flushinghospital.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flushinghospital.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9958"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/flushinghospital.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9961,"href":"https:\/\/flushinghospital.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9958\/revisions\/9961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flushinghospital.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flushinghospital.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flushinghospital.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}