Advantages Walk 10 KM Per Day

Pittsburgh, How often do you walk in a week? Or perhaps never walk because everywhere ride. Too bad if you are not a lot of walking because walking provides great benefits for the body.

Strolling on a regular basis with a minimum distance of 10 km in a week in return you will be far from the risk of dementia. Indeed senile it will happen when people get older, because while the elderly, the quality and volume of the brain will decline so it can trigger dementia. But parents are not much better not senile.

Just so you know, or senile dementia diseases become the biggest health threat in this century. In contrast to other severe diseases like cancer are still treatable, there is no cure for dementia.

Results of research by many scientists to find a minimum of 9.6 km on foot (rounded to 10 km) per week of this process can be prevented or rather postponed.

Strolling on a regular basis with a minimum distance of 10 km in a week to keep track of health hippo campus, the part of the brain that is central to cognitive. As a result, the risk of developing dementia or dementia can be reduced.

Researchers from the University of Pittsburgh to prove this after observing 299 adults since 1989. Long-term observations it has been published in the journal Neurology recently.

At the beginning of the study, all participants who average 78 years old were noted to have normal cognitive abilities and no one has dementia. Researchers also noted the volume of the brain and the travel distance when walking on a weekly basis.

Having monitored continuously for 4 years, cognitive ability was observed again. Quoted from Health Day, Thursday (13/10/2010), 116 persons or 40 percent of whom had developed dementia or senility.

The remaining about 60 percent just experienced the same problem 5 years later, namely during the observation entering the 9 years. Based on the researchers note, this group walking with the distance between 9.6 km to 14.5 km per week. 

Participants who walk away with the distance 14.5 km, the risk of dementia was reduced by 50 percent. This distance is the most optimal, because it turns out at a greater distance benefits are no greater