The World’s Best Exercise
However, the more time you invest in walking, the more you will get out of it. If you slowly increase your distance and speed, you’ll end up burning more calories and strengthening your legs over time. The great thing about walking is that it’s not particularly taxing on the knees, and you can move at your own pace. It doesn’t get any better than that! To get the most out of walking, schedule your walks for after mealtimes, especially the ones that come later in the day, like lunch and dinner. It’s a great way to aid digestion and burn calories — which can’t hurt your waistline!
at bay, such as diabetes and heart disease. In addition to these physical benefits, walking daily can improve your mood and overall mental health. As simple and straightforward as walking is, it can be difficult for many people to find the time. Most experts agree that you need 30–60 minutes of physical activity per day, but the good news is that you can split those minutes up throughout your day. For example, you can take a brisk 20-minute walk in the morning before work, followed by another one at lunch and one more after dinner. Those 60 minutes also don’t have to be strenuous; they just need to happen.
Not all exercises are created equal. In fact, there is one form of exercise that is better than many others: walking. Harvard Medical School took a look at various exercises and concluded that walking is up there with swimming and tai chi in terms of health benefits. Regular walking can help maintain good cholesterol and blood pressure levels and keep your bones strong and healthy. One study showed that 40 minutes of walking every day helped people reduce blood pressure from hypertension to prehypertension, and then eventually to normal over several months. Walking can even keep many different kinds of diseases
Safe Driving Tips for Summer How to Limit Your Chances of an Accident
area, as is often the case when vacationing, err on the side of being a slowpoke.
If you’ve lived in the Boston area long enough, you’re well aware that traffic patterns change during the summer. On a Friday evening, you can expect Route 3 South to be jammed with folks heading to the Cape for the weekend. Everyone wants to jumpstart their getaways and get to their cabins as quickly as possible, but it’s important to keep safety in mind when traveling during the summer months. Don’t let your excitement for a trip to the beach cause you to ignore the basic rules of the road.
PUT THE PHONE AWAY There’s no need to alert folks via text that you’re 30 minutes away when you’re behind the wheel. If you need to communicate while en route, either have your co-pilot handle it or safely pull over. When the roads are busy and drivers are frantic, you need to be fully aware of what’s going on around you. NEVER, EVER DRINK AND DRIVE We all know cops are out in full force to catch intoxicated drivers during the busiest weekends of summer. Even without the threat of arrest, there is simply no reason to drive after you’ve had a drink. Call an Uber, use a DD, or find another way to get home safely.
TAKE CAUTION ON RESIDENTIAL STREETS
DRIVE THE SPEED LIMIT It’s roughly 55 miles from the heart of Boston to the Sagamore Bridge. If you drive 20 mph over the speed limit, which you certainly should not, you’ll only save about
Once you’re off the highway, you need to be prepared for an increased number of pedestrians and bicyclists. It’s always prudent to exercise caution in residential areas, but that’s doubly true when people are outside en masse. You don’t want
15 minutes of travel time. Is that quarter of an hour really worth risking a ticket, a serious injury, or a totaled vehicle? In our eyes, the answer is pretty obvious.
to speed around a corner, only to see a bunch of kids playing whiffle ball in the middle of the street. When you don’t know the
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