✨ Walk, even if you have to walk on thorns...! ✨ ✍🏻 There is an ancient proverb: "If you want to stay healthy, keep your feet warm and your head cool." Medical science confirms that those who walk regularly not only remain protected from diabetes, blood pressure, high cholesterol, heart disease, weak bones, stroke, and many other ailments, but also lead a healthy and active life. In the current era, fast-paced life has "paralyzed" human beings. Now, people walk very little. Professional life has become such that most people sit all day long, and even for short distances, they commute by bike or car. The dreadful consequences of this lifestyle manifest during an illness, particularly in old age. Nowadays, the number of elderly people who spend the rest of their lives in a wheelchair after the age of 60 and remain dependent on others until their last breath is continuously increasing. Why is this so? The reason is that 50% of the muscles and bones in the human body are in the legs. Similarly, 50% of the nerves and 50% of the blood vessels are also in the legs. Our legs are the largest network of blood circulation. Our calves are our second heart. While the heart pumps clean blood into the body, our calves pump the impure blood from the lower torso back to the heart. In this way, when we walk, the blood circulation in our body remains complete and faster, and every single cell of the body receives nutrition and oxygen through the blood, keeping our body healthy and robust. When we do not move our legs, we slow down our body's blood circulation. When the movement of leg muscles and nerves remains low, they begin to become numb and weak, leg muscles start to shrink and weaken, and the burden and exertion on the heart to pump blood increases. If for some reason we do not put the body's weight on our legs and do not move them for just two weeks, the efficiency of our leg muscles and nerves decreases by 5%. 70% of the process of converting food into energy in our body is carried out by our legs and feet. When we do not keep our feet and legs active, extra calories keep accumulating in our body, which causes obesity; some people develop a belly, and obesity becomes a curse for their life. Remember that after the age of 50 to 60, losing weight is nearly impossible, even if you fast. Upon reaching this age, the weak muscles of your legs are no longer capable of carrying the burden of your heavy body. As a result, you will first take the support of a stick and then end up in a wheelchair. If you want to avoid disability and dependency in old age, then walk, even if you have to walk on thorns. The medical term for the wasting away, thinning, and shrinking of leg muscles is Sarcopenia. After the age of forty or fifty, there is no cure for it. No matter how many diets you try or efforts you make, this deficiency cannot be fulfilled, except that the efficiency of the remaining muscles can be maintained. The second dreadful consequence comes in the form of weakening bones. You must have often seen that when elderly individuals fall, their thigh bone or hip joint breaks, which then fails to mend, and the rest of their life is spent in bed or a wheelchair. A whole book could be written on this topic, but consider this brief text as sufficient. If you want to stay healthy and avoid paralyzing risks after the age of forty or fifty, then walk as much as possible, put your body's weight on your legs, and keep your feet active. The standard for walking is that you should walk ten thousand steps a day, so that the muscles of your legs and feet remain strong, flexible, and powerful. After the age of forty, you have stepped into old age. At that time, do not look at how gray your hair has become or how many wrinkles have appeared on your face and skin; instead, see how weak your legs, their muscles, and nerves have become. Understand it this way: old age starts from the "legs". Weakness travels from the legs to the upper body. Make a habit of walking as much as possible. Cover short distances on foot, use a bike or car for long journeys, and if you do not like walking, get a bicycle. Similarly, do not let the elders of your house just lie in bed; motivate them to walk, make them walk with support, make them stand if they can sit, lift them up to a sitting position if they cannot stand, urge them to put weight on their legs, and make them do leg exercises. If they are capable of moving around, keep them active and encourage them to cover short distances on foot. ___*
