European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 4, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Walking a by Kathy Burton and Gary Yanker new York times. The shift of the dominant population group from 18 to 34 to Ages 35 to 55 has dramatically changed the reasons Why americans exercise As Well As How they How they exercise. For Many goals like thinner thighs in 30 Days or improving a personal Best time in a 10-Kilometer or. Marathon have yielded to reducing medical risks. A in turn the health concerns of this population group have altered the preferred Mode of exercise from More a. Competitive and highly strenuous activities like running and aerobic dancing to moderate exercise. The reasons Are Clear scientific studies and anecdotal evidence have shown that moderate exercise can reduce the effects of or even reverse the diseases associated with aging by keeping body fat Down reducing blood. Pressure and cholesterol Levels improving the efficiency of the heart and lungs strengthening Muscles and. A reducing stress. A a. A a. According to a poll done in 1989 by the National. Sporting goods association walking is the most popular exercise in America with 65 million devotees what a More there is a growing number of walking doctors health professionals who walk for exercise and use walking As a medical prescription for their patients to. Be used in conjunction with Onn Steadl medication or. Steven Blair director of epidemiology at the Institute for aerobics research in Dallas conducted a longitudinal study Between 1970 and 1981 in conjunction with the Dallas based Cooper clinic that found that the less a person exercises the greater his or her risk of dying Young. The study was presented in 1989 in the journal of. The american medical association. Quot a. Blair contends that moderate exercise Over a lifetime perhaps even at 30 or 40 percent of maximum heart rate is More advantageous than a year of intense aerobic activity followed by a Long sedentary period. Quot the Benefit threshold is probably a lot lower than people have. Thought Quot said Blair who walks five Miles a week. Quot i recommend walking because if we re looking at it from a behavioural standpoint we re much More Likely to get people out for three 10-minute walks a Day than to get them out for Threa t 0-minute sessions of break dancing or even . Keeping your weight under control and More important your body fat within acceptable Levels is perhaps the highest health priority As being overweight significantly increases your risk of developing heart disease cancer diabetes or having a stroke. It can also intensify arthritis and Back and joint problems. Walking is. Effective for reducing body fat a. Because it is the duration of exercise rather than the intensity that counts. In the initial stages of exercise the body Burns Glycogen and Only starts to Burn fat after Glycogen is depleted. V Quot with an intense exercise like running you will use up Glycogen and then Stop but with walking you will exercise longer Burn More calories and eventually More fat Quot said or Charles Eichenberg director of the new Start health Center in St. Petersburg fla., who makes walking a mandatory part of his patients weight loss programs. _ Eichenberg who walks 36 Miles a week also advocates walking because it increases muscle mass while reducing fat dieting alone reduces both fat and muscle this. A s4s difference Means , that a woman who is exercising to reduce weight will need to lose Only six. Pounds to drop a dress size. If she were dieting shed have to lose 10 pounds to achieve the same result. Walking like other aerobic exercises is effective in. 7 reducing blood pressure increasing the efficiency of the heart and lungs and decreasing serum cholesterol Levels. Or Mort Malkin a surgeon at Brooklyn Hospital in new York City who teaches aerobic walking reduced his own., blood pressure from 133/88 to 118/78 through v race walking. A a a _. Malkin who walks 15 Miles a week and at age 56 has the maximum heart rate of a 30-year-old, finds that Man associated Pressa a a a a a a a i f your Best driving performance is in the Golf cart you May be playing the game wrong two. Researchers say you could do your circulatory system More Good it you make the trip on foot.  a course regularly helps lower cholesterol Levels and therefore May decrease the risk of heart disease the exports concluded. A Quot we need to reassess the value of this sport a said the report in the journal the physician and sportsmen ice. Researchers Edward a. Palank and Ernest h. Hargreaves or. Of the new Hampshire heart Institute in Manchester looked at 28 average but enthusiastic male golfers Ages 48 to 80. They had not exercised the previous four months. A in the study the golfers walked about 14 Miles a week. By playing an 18-Hole course an average of three times a week from mid May to mid september of 1989 a with a Pul cart or carrying a Light bag. _ the golfers lowered their total cholesterol by an average of 17 milligrams per Decilier of blood the study said. The Tow density Lipoprotein fraction of their. A. Cholesterol the so called Quot bad Quot cholesterol associated with higher risk of heart disease fell by an average of 13.2 milligrams it said. Both Are Quot very significant Quot decreases the report said however the level of High density Lipoprotein a so called Quot Good cholesterol Quot associated with a lower risk of head disease did not change significantly the report said Quot a. A Quot a. A a a a a. That s because a golfer s stops to hit the bail get in the Way of his workout said Palank a cardiologist. In. Takes a sustained aerobic workout to improve fld he said in an interview. A a ,. Just the same the study demonstrates the sport has health value. A a. A a. Quot if you play  you walk and you take.  a sport you like you can improve your. Heart disease risk ratio Quot he said. Quot the thing that s a discouraging is that they be taken a very enjoyable sport that was designed to walk and taken out some of the enjoyment and taken away some of the positive medical  /.  a a. A Palank blamed economics saying courses make More Money by shuttling More golfers through on carts. In a Survey conducted in 1988. Golfers said they used a cart about a third of the time they played. However walking May strengthen a golfers game by reducing effects of fatigue said Rob Mottram a _ physical therapist with cent Inela Hospital Inglewood Calif. A a. 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