Taking More Steps to Lower Cholesterol
Physical exercise is widely known as a health-promoting tool, however, increase the amount of physical activity may give you more benefits, such as taking more steps to lower cholesterol. A report in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine confirms and validates.
The study was conducted by Professor Peter T. Katzmarzyk, the Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The metabolic syndrome, among which is the high level of low density cholesterol, which can work both overweight people, such as those with normal weight.
The research showed that those who walked more were the group with less percentage of metabolic syndrome. The group walked more than 10.000 steps a day. Whereas it is a walking pace of 100 steps per minute, in half an hour can be done 3000 steps.
This may seem a lot, is actually normal walking pace of an adult, and those 3000 steps every 30 minutes, made every day, is the minimum you must do to avoid risk factors. However, the purpose is to walk a lot, more than 10 000 steps per day, at a rate of 100 steps per minute, would total more than 1 ½ hours of aerobic exercise.
Therefore, if you’re going to walk only as part of your fitness program, and do not want to be so long, you can increase the rate hike. Every three minutes increases the rate by at least 1 minute, so that increases your heart rate. Some time back to normal pace for 3 minutes then repeat.
Thus, in less time, have the possibility to make more number of steps and protect you from risk factors such as high cholesterol.