, causing the synovial fluid to circulate and the impact of touching the foot to the ground, helps oxygen and nutrients to enter the cartilage area.
This is very important because if there is not enough movement, a decline in adequate joint lubrication and nutrition speeds up the deteriorating process.
Further reading: Exercise is good, not bad, for arthritis
9. Maintaining Bone Density
Loss in bone density leads to osteoporosis, a condition very prominent in menopausal women. While there is no immediate threat to the life of those who suffer from it, it’s not a condition to be taken lightly. Bone fractures are much more often than they should be, if the person is not careful. And they take much longer to heal than they would normally.
While walking will not cure osteoporosis, it helps in maintaining bone density, preventing further thinning of the bone, which may prove crucial when combined with proper supplements and doctor–prescribed medication.
Further reading: Is Walking Good for Osteoporosis?
10. Easing Irritable Bowel Syndrome Symptoms
Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a digestive disorder that involves irregular bowel contraction, leading to spasms, pain, constipation, bloating and diarrhea.
Walking is a known beneficiary of this condition. It helps regulate the bowel muscles’ movement, also known as peristalsis, to contract in a regular pattern, as it should be.
Factors that worsen symptoms of IBS are anxiety and stress. Because walking and exercising in general, help in stress management and relieve anxiety symptoms, as mentioned above, this is very helpful when it comes to warding off IBS spasms and pain.
Michael Roizen MD, from Cleveland Clinic, recommends a 30 minute walk every night after dinner. This will aid in regulating bowel movement, help in digestion and also help to relieve bloating.
11. Helping With Insomnia And Irregular Sleeping Patterns
For those who suffer from insomnia or have difficulty sleeping at night, there is a study that might provide some help.
While exercise in general is helpful into getting a good night’s sleep, scientists say that exposure to daylight in the morning could prove a functional method of regulating the body clock. This is called light therapy and its intent is to regulate the natural sleeping patterns by exposed to proper light in the morning.
A good way for getting this much needed light, is walking. Even if it’s just for a few minutes, it will signal our internal pacemaker, the suprachiasmatic nucleus, which responds to light, and therefore it will start to regulate the normal sleeping cycle.
Further reading: Could a walk cure insomnia?
Conclusion
There you go, 11 reasons to walk to a healthier and happier you. Walking is such a practical way of exercising and you cannot go wrong with it.
So, whether it is to lose weight or lower common health risks, or just for the fun of going out there and exploring the nature and the town you live in, walking is definitely the way to go.
You can customize it to suit your schedule, daily activities and fitness level. There is no need for a gym membership, special gears or schedule rearranging. Whenever you can walk instead of drive, take the stairs instead of the elevator or just pace around the office or your home whenever possible, you will be doing your body and mind a great favor.
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The federal government has a decidedly 21st-century gift for Choctaw Nation.
The Obama administration announced last week that the Native American tribe, which calls the southeast corner of Oklahoma home, will be among the local governments to receive cheap Internet as part of a new federal program dubbed ConnectHome, which is meant to bring high-speed Internet to low-income families who likely can't afford it. The Associated Press reports that the program follows in the footsteps of ConnectEd, a similar federal program meant to provide Internet to every library and K-12 classroom across the country by 2017.
In remarks delivered in Durant, Oklahoma, President Obama argued that free Internet could serve as a great equalizer, bridging the "digital divide" in access between wealthy and low-income families, empowering the latter with the tools to pursue the educational and economic opportunities the Internet offers. "In this digital age, when you can apply for a job, take a course, pay your bills... with a tap of your phone, the Internet is not a luxury. It's a necessity," Obama said. "You cannot connect with today's economy without having access to the Internet."
Increased access to the benefits of the World Wide Web might help better prepare young Native Americans for the world that awaits them.
ConnectHome will undoubtedly be a major boon to low-income families in the 27 cities across the country selected for the program by the Department of Housing and Urban Development. According to census information analyzed by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, some 23 percent of Native Americans live in poverty; for comparison, the national poverty rate dropped to 14.5 percent in 2013. The poverty rate swings wildly among Native American communities, depending on where you are in the patchwork of jurisdictions that comprise tribal lands: In Iowa, the poverty rate sits below 12 percent, while in South Dakota it's somewhere between 43 and 47 percent. In addition, many reservations are marred by alcoholism (51 percent, per the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) and high suicide rates (among the top 10 leading causes of death), both of which contribute to a cycle of poverty and destitution.
Can the Internet help these communities lift themselves out of poverty? Perhaps. In 2014, Silicon Valley venture capitalist Bill Davidow argued in the Atlantic that the ubiquitous tools of the Internet—email, the browser, even social media—don't just create education and economic opportunities by making communication simple and compressing the entire planet into a screen. Rather, they are essential training for anyone simply trying to function in the world beyond their home, wherever that may be. But that doesn't mean the Internet levels the playing field: "Internet-based companies may well be the businesses of the future, but they create opportunities for only a select few," Davidow wrote. "If policy makers want to attack income inequality, they must pay more attention to the ways in which the Internet is affecting their businesses."
From the looks of it, the Obama administration is paying attention. During his first visit to Native American land as president in 2014—a trip to the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in North Dakota, where the tribal poverty rate is 43.2 percent—Obama wrote in an op-ed for Indian Country Today that poverty and high school dropout rates among Native Americans are "a moral call to action." Since then, the federal government has been slowly but surely rolling out new initiatives to combat poverty, like the "Promise Zones"—legal areas "eligible for tax incentives and grants to help fight poverty," according to the Associated Press—of which Chocktaw Nation is the first. And this year, the White House asked for an increase of $33.6 million in the 2014 Indian affairs budget (for a total of some $2.6 billion) to help fight poverty and improve education on reservations, after Obama reportedly teared up in the Oval Office when meeting with Native-American children.
The Internet can't fix the issues that plague tribal territories across the United States; the scars of centuries of cruelty at the hand of the federal government run too deep to be patched and healed by the vast storehouse of knowledge on the Internet. But coupled with tax incentives and infrastructure improvements, increased access to the benefits of the World Wide Web might help better prepare young Native Americans for the world that awaits them.
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Fred Durst (lead vocals of Limp Bizkit) was a big fan of Korn and once, after a concert, he convinced the bassist Reginald “Fieldy” Arvizu to come to his place for some beers and a free tattoo (Fred was doing also tattoos at that time)…Korn decided to bring the band in tour with them and, starting from that moment, their audience grew rapidly.
In fact, Durst was an able marketer, he made the band very famous in Jacksonville in Florida…. He was litteraly going door by door, school by school, record shop by record shop promoting the band.
They became so famous that once, in a concert, the already famous band Sugary Ray opened for them in a local club, can you image that?
Limp Bizkit is one of the first band, if not the first band, that mixed HipHop/Rap with Heavy Metal/Hard Rock creating a new genre called Nu Metal……..the year was 1994….. 19 years a go.
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