Exercise can be beneficial in countless ways. It helps you maintain an ideal weight, improves heart health and can give your mental health a boost, but what can it do for depressed individuals? Is curing your depression as simple as getting up and putting one foot in front of the other thousands of time each […]
Walking Can Take Years Off Your Brain Age
Regular physical activity, like going for a walk or playing Pickleball, may provide some short-term benefits to our brain health, equivalent to reversing four years of cognitive aging, according to a new study published in the journal Annals of Behavioral Medicine. For the study, researchers asked a diverse sample of 204 middle-aged adults to check […]
How Brisk Walking Can Help Slow Aging
We all know that walking is good for our total body wellness, but a new study suggests that regular walking at a brisk pace may help to greatly increase your life expectancy. According to a new study based on data collected from more than 400,000 adults in the United Kingdom, there exists a clear link […]
Use Your Feet, Not Caffeine, For That Afternoon Energy Boost
We’ve all hit that proverbial post-lunch wall at the office at one point or another. You can’t just doze off for 30 minutes, so what do most people do in order to find that energy boost to get them through the end of the work day? They reach for a cup of coffee or a caffeinated […]
What Your Feet Can Tell You About Your Personality
A lot of times you can’t tell much about a person until you have a conversation with them, but new research from across the pond says you can tell a lot about a person by the way they walk. According to researchers from the University of Portsmouth, there exists some clues as to how aggressive […]