{"id":5121,"date":"2020-03-07T06:48:18","date_gmt":"2020-03-07T06:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mymedicplus.com\/news\/?p=5121"},"modified":"2020-03-07T06:48:18","modified_gmt":"2020-03-07T06:48:18","slug":"getting-in-your-daily-steps-can-reduce-your-risk-of-diabetes-and-high-blood-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mymedicplus.com\/blog\/getting-in-your-daily-steps-can-reduce-your-risk-of-diabetes-and-high-blood-pressure\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting In Your Daily Steps Can Reduce Your Risk of Diabetes and High Blood Pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Source:healthline.com<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Researchers say walking daily can reduce your risk of high blood pressure and diabetes.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Experts say those daily steps can also reduce stress and bolster your immune systems.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Some simple ways to get in your walking is to park far away from the store, walk instead of having lunch with a friend, and hold a work meeting while walking.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>More than\u00a0100 million people<span class=\"css-1mdvjzu icon-hl-trusted-source-after\"><span class=\"sro\">Trusted Source<\/span><\/span>\u00a0in the United States have diabetes or prediabetes.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s also estimated that more than\u00a0100 million Americans\u00a0have high blood pressure.<\/p>\n<p>Those numbers have been rising, but researchers say there is a free and relatively easy way to reduce your risk of developing one of these diseases.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the simple act of walking.<\/p>\n<p>The standard recommendation for physical fitness is\u00a010,000 steps a day.<\/p>\n<p>But even a fraction of that can work, according to the authors of a new\u00a0study.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers state that middle-aged study participants who walked the most steps per day over an average of 9 years had a 43 percent lower risk of diabetes and a 31 percent lower risk of high blood pressure.<\/p>\n<p>The research was presented today at the American Heart Association\u2019s\u00a0Epidemiology and Prevention\/Lifestyle and Cardiometabolic Health Scientific Sessions 2020\u00a0in Phoenix, Arizona.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe benefits of exercise, specifically walking, have been studied extensively the past several years,\u201d\u00a0David DaPrato, DPT, who works in sports rehabilitation and is a professional triathlon coach, told Healthline. \u201cThere is good reason behind getting your 10,000-plus steps in each day.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5122,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[1058,298],"class_list":["post-5121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diabetes","tag-diabetes","tag-high-blood-pressure"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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