We asked five experts: is walking enough exercise?
- Written by Alexandra Hansen, Section Editor: Health + Medicine, The Conversation
We humans need to exercise in order to stay healthy. Exercise protects against disease and early death, and keeps us mobile and able to perform daily tasks.
Walking is an easy, free and enjoyable form of exercise. But is a nice stroll enough to confer the life-saving benefits we know come from exercise?
We posed this question to five specialists in the field.
Here are their detailed responses: If you have a “yes or no” health question you’d like posed to Five Experts, email your suggestion to: alexandra.hansen@theconversation.edu.auRead more http://theconversation.com/we-asked-five-experts-is-walking-enough-exercise-94991