Walking the best way to stay trim

10 November 2015 - 02:03 By ©The Daily Telegraph

Forget the gym or five-a-side soccer, running, spinning, zumba and squash. Walking officially beats them all, hands (or rather feet) down. Regular walking is the best thing you can do to achieve and maintain a healthy weight, according to a study from the London School of Economics.It concluded that the brisk constitutional is a better deterrent against obesity than any other form of exercise.Men and women who walk briskly for more than 30 minutes a day were found to have a lower body mass index and smaller waists than everyone else involved in the study."Given the obesity epidemic, and the fact a large proportion of people today are inactive, recommending that people walk more is a cheap and easy policy option," said Dr Grace Lordon, who led the research. ..

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