Welcome to A Step Forward, the Walking newsletter from Bellaonline

Walking is free and easy to do and helps you to lose weight and to get fit.
Your health will greatly benefit from walking.

Walking can

Reduce the risk of heart disease

Lower your blood pressure

Be an anti-ageing treatment

Reduce your bad cholesterol levels

Improve your mood

Reduce the risk of getting dementia and diabetes

Help you sleep better

Helps to prevent the risk of breast cancer

All this from just walking! The recommended number of steps for you to aim for each day is 10,000.

This is approx 5 miles a day – now this may seem like a lot but you can break it down into more manageable chunks

Try walking for half an hour at lunch time and then again in the evening.

Walk for 10 minutes in your coffee break, 20 minutes at lunch time and half an hour in the evening.

If you have a dog it is easy – just walk the dog two or three times a day and you will easily do an hours walking

Can you walk to work?
Do you walk to the shops?

Look for ways you can build walking into your lifestyle whether you work in an office, work at home with children for more tips check out

http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art33481.asp

Here are some tips and ideas to get you going and to help you set realistic goals – setting unattainable goals is the most common reason we fail to keep to a weight lose or fitness plan!

http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art16196.asp

Here's the latest article from the Walking site at BellaOnline.com.

Snacks for walking
Find out the facts on walking to lose weight.

http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art46786.asp

Please visit Walking.bellaonline.com for even more great content about Walking.

To participate in free, fun online discussions, this site has a community forum all about Walking located here -

http://forums.bellaonline.com/postlist.php?Cat=0&Board=219

I hope to hear from you sometime soon, either in the forum or in response to this email message. I thrive on your feedback!

Have fun passing this message along to family and friends, because we all love free knowledge


Hellie T., Walking Editor
http://Walking.bellaonline.com

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