The charm of walking 01020304

I generally don't pay attention to the life of an actor, but there is one person who caught my attention, and that is Chen Kun.

What is so special about him is that he loves hiking and launched the "Power of Walking" hiking public welfare activity in 2011, and every year people from all walks of life will hike mountaineers or walk the city with Chen Kun. Unlike donkey friends, the "power of walking" hiking activity is generally "stop talking", Chen Kun's original intention of creating this public welfare project is to call on people to use the most primitive and instinctive way of walking, so that the mind can be quieted, dialogue with themselves, and awaken the inner strength.

Nowadays, the "power of walking" has become a symbol of positive energy, and more and more people are involved in hiking, does hiking really have such a great charm?

The answer is given by Shane Omarah's Why We Should Walk, which points out that regular walking can indeed regulate people's mood, prevent depression from occurring, and maintain physical and mental health.

Shane Omala is a renowned neuroscientist, a Fellow of the Royal Irish Academy of Sciences, a Professor of Brain ExperimentAtion at Trinity College Dublin, Director of the Institute of Neuroscience and Principal Investigator. Why We Should Walk focuses on the important role of walking and how walking affects our physical and mental health, cognitive level, social interaction, and urban construction.

Speaking of walking, this proposition seems to be very narrow, who would not walk? Do you want to talk about it?

We are always dismissive of familiar things, but it is actually the hardest thing to explain what seems very simple, such as why 1 plus 1 equals 2.

It's not easy for us to learn to walk, as the book says: "On average, a toddler walks 2368 steps per hour, travels 701 meters, falls 17 times... In the course of three or four hundred days of learning, babies have to walk hundreds of thousands of steps and fall thousands of times. "Fortunately, we didn't have a memory at that time, otherwise we would have retreated."

However, these efforts are worth it, when we can stand up on the furniture, the world suddenly unfolds in front of us, our legs are constantly alternating forward, trying to grasp the balance, our free hands can be touched, to climb, to perceive the things around us.

An interesting phenomenon is mentioned in Why We Should Walk, which illustrates the importance of walking to the development of animal neural networks from the opposite side. The sea squirt is a marine animal that can swim around to feed when it is larvae, and its neural network has developed with it. But when it grew into an adult, something strange happened, it stuck to the rock, digesting its own brain and neural networks! It's like becoming a plant.

What is the difference between animals and plants? From the appearance of the actual is actually moving, and walking has developed a neural network system that plants do not have, to perceive the environment that changes drastically, and walking can be said to be a natural attribute of animals.

Modern people seem to be increasingly reluctant to move, and the rapid development of the takeaway industry is the most powerful example. A few of my colleagues, they have been ordering takeaway at noon, in fact, there is a restaurant downstairs, the price is relatively cheap. Unfortunately, most of these colleagues who love to order takeaway are obese, and fatty liver is also accompanied.

There's nothing wrong with ordering takeout, and I'll order it too. I summarized the 3 conditions for ordering takeaway: 1, my location is really far to walk to the hotel, and the round-trip delay time; 2, the surrounding restaurants are tired of eating, and occasionally order takeaway to change the taste; 3, it is too busy, there is no time to do it or go to the hotel. Presumably, it is reasonable to order only 1-2 takeaways a week. Frequent local takeaways deprive people of the only walking qualifications they have in between work. At the same time, there is also health that is slowly lost.

According to the statistics of the Health Commission, the number of patients with lumbar spine disease in China has exceeded 200 million, and the incidence rate is second only to colds, and the proportion of patients aged 20 to 40 is more than half! Unfortunately I am one of them!

In the 2015 Global Burden of Disease Research Series published by The Lancet, one of which is a non-fatal disease that affects quality of life, low back and neck pain ranks first!

Office workers are the group with the most serious lumbar spine problems, and sitting is the culprit.

For the office crowd, Why Should We Walk makes an interesting point. The current office culture is popular with people from various departments gathered together in order to improve the efficiency of collaborative work. The author thinks this is not advisable!

If they don't leave the work area, people in various departments can discuss issues without even having to stand up, and they lose the opportunity to move around.

In response to spinal pain, Shane Omarah shouted in the book: "The treatment is just to get up and walk around frequently, so simple that few people understand or implement it." We modern people are so stupid! ”

Perhaps the story of Oz the Iceman, who archaeologists found on a hiking trail in the Alps. The scars on his head, shoulders and arms are still clearly visible, and if he ignores them for the time being, why does he appear in this frozen world?

He was most likely on the way to migration, and we underestimated the footwork of our ancestors, who walked around the world on foot in ancient times when there was no means of transportation.

So, if we do such a long hike, what are the effects on the body? The "modern Oz" came into being, and Shane Omarah talks about this experiment in the book, a 62-year-old energetic modern man who trekked across the Alps for 68 days and 1300 kilometers.

After that, we conducted a physical examination of the "Hyundai Oz", and compared with the state before departure, his body index was comprehensively improved. Triglycerides that cause cardiovascular disease are reduced by 75%, and there is a large increase in heart-friendly substances such as high-density lipoproteins. In addition, the inflammation of the "modern Oz" body and some other signs of disease also miraculously disappeared.

Chen Kun's "power of walking" is also the first embodiment of the fact that hiking can keep people healthy, and from this angle alone is enough to make us take a step. But the benefits of walking are far from here, and those involved in the "power of walking" are also aware of this, and walking can perceive the self inward and soothe emotions in the process of contact with nature.

In Why We Walk, walking is simply amazing.

Walking does not depend on our vision, it has its own system of balance;

Walking can improve our creativity, and many scientists and writers have a profound experience;

Walking can promote the regeneration of adult brain cells and improve memory;

Walking can lift our mood, get positive feedback, and prevent depression;

Walking has a social nature and is the key to staying in touch with others and the world;

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The benefits of walking are supported by experiments that consciously help us change our attitude toward walking.

Of course, Shane Omala will not allow us to hike for as long as "modern Oz", and if we walk regularly, we can completely prevent disease, maintain vitality and creativity.

Shane Omarah loves to walk, and his approach is simple, he set himself a daily walk plan, using his mobile phone to set 9500 steps a day, in fact he exceeded expectations, averaging more than 12,000 steps per day. With such a setting, you can probably complete it too, right?